Below are some ideas and tips to help you plan a successful Round-the-World breakfast

• Background on the Round-the-World breakfast
• Planning checklist
• Breakfast ideas
• Suggestions for activities

What is the YWCA round-the-world breakfast?

The round-the-world breakfast is an opportunity to:

• Celebrate women's leadership
• Increase your community's knowledge about the worldwide work of the YWCA
• Raise the profile of the YWCA in your community by hosting an event of interest to local, national or international press
• Expand your fundraising for the Global Campaign to ensure that the YWCA can continue to empower women leaders of the future

What makes this breakfast special?

On April 24, many YWCAs around the world host a breakfast to celebrate women's leadership, the work of the YWCA and raise funds for the Global Campaign. This means that for 24 hours groups of women will have breakfast and celebrate our history and our future. Throughout this day, updates are posted on the World YWCA website as reports and pictures of the breakfasts arrive at the World YWCA office.

Planning checklist

This checklist can help you plan the best breakfast your community has ever seen:

• Appoint an organising committee
• Confirm the time and date (April 24)
• Plan the programme/choose women to honour
• Set a fundraising goal for the Power to Change Fund
• Decide how funds will be raised towards this goal
• Develop an action plan with timelines and assignments for all jobs to be done
• Create your breakfast menu
• Identify costs and how these will be covered
• Invite speakers
• Send out the invitations
• Order the food and decorations
• Rehearse the event
• Celebrate!
• Evaluate

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Need breakfast ideas?

• Honour inspiring women leaders
• Ask the women you honour to speak; invite their friends and families
• Recognise outstanding women’s leadership in your community
• Develop an exhibition on the impact of women leaders in the YWCA
• The board could organize a breakfast and/or each board member could host their own breakfast
• Ask a restaurant to sponsor the breakfast
• Approach a business to fund the breakfast
• Approach a company to host a breakfast for their employees where you can tell them about the work of the YWCA
• Invite a high-profile speaker
• Organise a women’s networking breakfast
• Plan an international festival of food
• Members can organise breakfasts at the companies where they work
• Participants bring a plate and a dollar
• Participants bring ingredients and cook together
• Host a pot luck breakfast
• One person hosts in their home

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Need ideas for activities at the breakfast?

• Programme hounouring local women leaders
• A talk or discussion about the YWCA role across the world
• Raffles or door prizes
• A guest speaker or discussion forum
• Fun activities like games, quizzes, trivia focussing on women's leadership
• A silent auction
• Take-away items for sale (baked or canned goods, for example)
• Expand the breakfast theme to include serving items, linens, and decorations representing other cultures
• Dramatic piece with a woman leader as a central figure
• Song contest with women's leadership as the theme

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