CommUNITY Breakfast Collaborative

UNDOING RACISM DAY - 2026 we will offer the 16th Annual Undoing Racism Day CommUNITY Breakfast and program, which will be held Wednesday, September 30th from 8-10 AM at the Inn at Villanova University. The program will focus on the 250th anniversary of the United States of America. We hope you will join us. Please email us at thecommunitybreakfast@gmail.com to sign up for our twice monthly e-newsletter CURATED to stay in touch with us.

OUR DELCO GIVES GOAL - We set a DELCO GIVES goal of $1000 this year so that DELCO GIVES could be considered an Institutional Sponsor of our annual event if the goal is reached. Thanks for considering supporting this effort!

The Vision - The vision of the CommUNITY Breakfast Collaborative is to achieve Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of the “Beloved Community, a society based on justice, equal opportunity and love of one’s fellow human beings.”

Our History - 2010 till Now - The CommUNITY Breakfast was dreamed up, at the end of a reception held at historic Radnor United Methodist Church, 930 Conestoga Road, Bryn Mawr, in Garrett Hill (now St. John AME Church, Bryn Mawr), which was hosted by Mrs. Janita Mahoney. The reception was held immediately following the rededication of Radnor’s 5th ward park as Bishop Richard Allen Park, located on Brook Street June 1, 2010.

The late Mrs. Peggy Gaskins of Bethel AME Church, Bryn Mawr, Pastor Joe Di Paolo of Wayne United Methodist Church, Wayne and Anne Minicozzi of Villanova University along with Mahoney all agreed we missed seeing each other at the Radnor Township “Unity Breakfast” held each September from 2001 through 2008 at Villanova University. We agreed to try holding a “pay for your own breakfast” event once and to see what the response would be.

The rest is history. We held the first “Undoing Racism Day” the following September 21, 2011 at the University. Staffed by a steering committee of community volunteers, "The CommUNITY Breakfast" created a space where we can gather to celebrate unity while “embracing the difference.” Now a nonprofit 501(c)(3) which is staffed by an all-volunteer board of directors, the "CommUNITY Breakfast Collaborative" goes a step further with a mission "to become the beloved community through civic engagement: Dialogue, Education, Networking, Prayer and Action."