Our goal was to conduct four breakfast speaker programs spread throughout the calendar year. Breakfasts were held Sunday mornings from 10:00am-noon, immediately after morning minyan. Using a modest honorarium budget as well as networking in the sports and media fields, combined with a lot of hard work and telephone calls, emails, etc, we were able to procure various local and national personalities to appear as speakers below market speaker rates. We chose to focus on those known in the media with an emphasis on sports writers or commentators, as well as local TV news personalities. Once a speaker was confirmed for a date, the program chair notified our board and publicist who produced an email flyer announcing the event usually a month in advance. Weekly email blasts went out to Brotherhood members, the events were posted on our Facebook page, breakfasts were publicized through the temple's weekly emails to the congregation, and the flyers were broadcast on video screens in the shul lobby, and announcements were made from the bimah on Shabbat.

The Kitchen Committee, or as we fondly refer to as the "crew" established a menu for the event in consultation with the chairman. The chairman kept a spreadsheet on reservations for the event and let the head of kitchen crew know the final tally 3-4 days prior to the event for food purchasing. Reservations and payment were made online through the temple website or by phoning or emailing the event chair and then paying at the door. The pricing for this type of breakfast was usually $10-$15/person or $20 for last minute walk-ins. We usually prepared a full breakfast consisting of scrambled eggs, hash browns, bagels with lox, cream cheese platters, yogurt, fresh cut fruit, and pastries. The cost was held down by doing our own purchasing, prep work, and cooking. Usually there were 6-8 volunteers to cook as well as another 3-4 members for the clean-up. We also engaged several members to handle audio visual services (taking pictures and video, running the projector, or handling mics for questions from the audience.) We also had 2-3 volunteers in charge of registration and raffle sales. We asked our speakers to bring along an autographed piece of memorabilia to raffle off that morning to aid in covering costs or making a small profit. The raffle itself added a nice dramatic highlight to the event at the conclusion to the program.