Circle

Save the date for our 2025 event:

October 30, 2025

Circle 2025

Thursday, October 30, 2025 from 11am-1pm at The Mirro Center

If you would like to commit to hosting a table at our 2025 event, please send us an email.

Host a Table

Will you host a table at YWCA’s Circle Event? As a Table Host, you would simply invite members of your network to join you at the luncheon, and to help influence support for YWCA.

Last year alone, we served 764 adults with one-on-one domestic violence advocacy, the highest ever in our agency’s history. As a powerful and influential person, we are asking that you and your tribe help make all the difference in raising life-saving dollars for those fleeing from domestic violence.

Table Hosts are standouts because they are integral to the success of Circle and have the goal to (literally) bring people to the table who would be willing to learn more about YWCA’s mission and make a financial contribution to support YWCA’s domestic violence services.

Learn more about hosting a table here.

To use your power of one and host a table, please send us an email. Each table seats eight and tickets to Circle are $100 a piece. Shared tables can be accommodated as well.

Become a Sustaining Circle Donor

Our clients come to us from domestic violence situations, often fleeing crises inside their homes. When they arrive at our crisis shelter, Bonnie’s House, clients find a circle of support that includes one-on-one advocacy services, onsite therapy, housing coordination, support groups, services for children, and more.

Will you join this circle of support by making your gift as a member of our Sustaining Circle? All Sustaining Circle donors will be recognized at the event if gifts are received by Monday, October 2 and your donation includes registration to this year’s event. Please send us an email with your pledge or any questions.

Advocate: $3,000+       Visionary: $1,500 – $2,999       Leader: $1,000 – $1,499       Partner: $500 – $999

Give online here

If you prefer to donate by check, please make your check out to “YWCA Northeast Indiana” with “Circle Donation” on the memo line, and mail it to:

YWCA Northeast Indiana
Attn: Thanh Riehm

1313 W Washington Center Rd

Fort Wayne, IN 46825

Find more ways to give to YWCA here!

The Peggy Hobbs Service Award began in 1977 with the intent to honor a woman of outstanding personal development, achievement, and dedication as a volunteer. YWCA Northeast Indiana continues Peggy’s legacy by presenting the Peggy Hobbs Service Award to a woman who embodies the passion, commitment, and dedication of Peggy Hobbs at YWCA’s annual Circle event. 

Pictured: Pictured: Angela Zent (2024 Peggy Hobbs Award Recipient), and Paula Hughes-Schuh (CEO, YWCA Northeast Indiana)

Showcase your company’s community values with an event sponsorship! 

Please send us an email if you are interested in sponsoring our 2024 event.

Sponsors are not required to fill any or all of the seats at their table(s). YWCA is happy to help sponsor their table(s) and will work with sponsors ahead of the event to ensure table seats are able to be filled. Please send us an email for more information! 

Thank you to our 2024 top level Dignity Sponsors:

Circle began with a group of women who had an idea to raise funds for YWCA’s domestic violence shelter. They wanted 100 women to come together and each donate $100 in support of YWCA’s domestic violence services. At that time in the late 90s, few believed that women had the financial capital to come together and put on a successful fundraising event. The doubters were proved wrong: Circle was immensely successful and continued on as a women-only fundraising event for at least a decade. In the mid-2000s, men were invited to join Circle for the first time. 

The goal of Circle has always been and continues to be to provide a circle of financial support for individuals and their children experiencing domestic violence in northeast Indiana. Circle raises both awareness and funds for YWCA’s life changing domestic violence services.

Frequently Asked Questions

Thank you to our 2024 top level Dignity Sponsors:


See recaps of past Circle events:

Seasons of Abuse

2024

Seasons of Abuse

2023

Write Your Own Story

2022

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2021

There's No Place Like Home

2020