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Breaking Bread uses shared meals to create connections and community across different backgrounds and beliefs.
Why Break Bread?
For thousands of years, shared meals have helped people build relationships and community. Today, amid growing political polarization and social isolation, connecting across backgrounds and beliefs is increasingly difficult.
Breaking Bread pairs this ancient practice with food diplomacy and an evidence-based process. We facilitate structured conversations over shared meals so people can connect across difference.
We don’t all have to agree by dessert. We just have to be willing to sit together at the table.
See Our evidence-based process →Who We Work With
Breaking Bread works with schools, organizations, and supporters who believe that bringing people together is worth doing.
Schools
Bring students and communities together beyond the classroom.
Breaking Bread works with high schools, colleges, and universities to create meaningful connection across backgrounds, beliefs, and perspectives.
Organizations
Turn a gathering into a meaningful conversation.
Breaking Bread works with businesses, nonprofits, associations, government entities, conferences, and community organizations.
Sponsors
Help bring more people to the table.
Breaking Bread works with supporters, companies, foundations, and strategic partners who want to help expand its impact.
The Proof is in the (Bread) Pudding
Breaking Bread has already brought people together at a college, a major university, and a national leadership conference. We're just getting started.
Where we set the table.
Dinner Discourses. Interfaith and intercultural events. Monthly Eatings. One of Rollins’ fastest-growing student organizations.
Where our movement spread.
From a small liberal arts college to one of America’s largest universities. UCF proved people everywhere were hungry for dialogue.
Where we needed more chairs.
Invited to lead Breaking Bread’s largest-ever program. 400 young leaders dined and dialogued together at the leadership conference.
Bring Breaking Bread to Your Campus or Organization
We help groups of 20–500 people create meaningful connections through guided shared meals and meaningful conversations.
You Provide
- People
- Space
- Invitation
We Provide
- Conversation framework
- Facilitation
- Resources
- Impact measurement
Find Your Seat at the Table
Whether you’re representing a school, organization, or interested in supporting Breaking Bread, there’s a place for you here.
Schools
Start a conversation about bringing Breaking Bread to your school.
Organizations
Explore what Breaking Bread could look like in your organization or community.
Sponsors
Help bring more people, communities, and conversations to the table.