Time of Fast (TOF)

Purpose and Objectives
The Time of Fast (TOF) is an annual International Y's Men's fund raising programme which began as monetary assistance made available to areas of developing countries by arrangement with the World Alliance of YMCAs (WA).

TOF is now a popular programme where Y’s Men members all over the world, traditionally give up at least one meal (usually during the month of February) and donate the cost of that meal to the TOF fund which in turn makes the money raised in this way available to projects sponsored by both Y’s Men and the YMCAs all over the world. Since its inception in 1972 to date, TOF has raised about US$ 4 million for development projects and disaster relief.

Projects
A TOF project should primarily:

• deal directly with people,
• improve the receiver's quality of life,
• be of the self-help variety, with ongoing results,
• have the endorsement of the YMCA of the country in which the project is located.

Brief TOF History (38.5 KB)
Guidelines for the "Time of Fast" (TOF) programme  (20 KB)
Implementing Rules and Guidelines for the "Unified Global Project" (UGP)   (14 KB) 

Click here for examples of Time of Fast Projects

Youth TOF

Promotional material available
PISD TOF, Hans J�rgen Brill, with the help of IHQ, produced a CD�. which has videos, PowerPoint presentations and games as well as new documents with lots of pictures.  Your club can receive it by applying to your RSD TOF (who will have received a copy) and if that does not work to IHQ.

Lots of promotional material available for download:

• TOF Donation Calendars for February 2008  *October 2007*

• "One-page flyers" and "Progress Reports" (with photos), as well as Financial Summaries and one-page summaries of recent TOF projects

• TOF Projects approved by ICM 07 for 07-08  (157.4 KB) *October 2007*

• Brief summaries of TOF projects approved for 2006-07 (21.1 KB) 

• TOF 07-08 International Action Plan (15.9 KB)  *October 2007*

• TOF 07-08 International Goals & Results 06-07 (11.8 KB)  *October 2007*

• TOF 07-10 Award System (15.5 KB)  *October 2007*

• Brief Prayer for TOF

Programmes

 Y's Men International Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland
Last modified:  30 October 2007