She recruited people into the movement and joined non-profit organizations such as the well-known Kumon Study Center. In addition, Chen got involved with the Awakening Foundation and with a movement to expand homemakers 'self-awareness. She also gathered together a number of neighborhood mothers to form the Mothers' Self-Education Academy, and set up a fledgling women's organization in her living room. Chen feels strongly about the importance of parenting to children.
她積極尋找同伴、參與台灣非營利組織，如知名的教育團體「功文數學教室」等，又主動接觸婦女新知學界，擴充婦女自覺意識，並興致勃勃地延攬鄰近一群媽媽共同出資成立「媽媽自助學院」，在自家客廳裡孕育出一個「女人組織」的雛形。