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Everybody Wins! Iowa We pair elementary students with caring volunteers to help them be successful in school and life. The Everybody Wins! as a nonprofit in New York.

program was founded in New York by Arthur Tannenbaum and his wife Phyllis. They had always read aloud to their children and reading aloud together was an important time for them to come together after a long day. It helped the Tannenbaums to instill a lifelong love of reading in their children. Arthur picked up a copy of the Read-Aloud Handbook, written by Jim Trelease after reading a book review in the New York Times. Arthur appreciated how important the read-aloud experience was for children, and realized that there were many children who didn’t have that opportunity to read with an adult in their daily lives. Trelease wrote that reading aloud to children was the single most important factor in improving children’s literacy skills–but what happens to those children who never had that opportunity? Arthur saw a chance to make a difference by visiting a neighborhood school once a week during his lunchtime and read to a child. He quickly recruited co-workers to join him in his weekly “Power Lunch.” Soon, the volunteers’ impact became obvious. Children in the program were learning to love reading, they were gaining self-confidence, and they were becoming better readers. This simple program has an enormously powerful impact! Soon Arthur retired from his job and founded Everybody Wins! This program quickly spread, and was brought to Iowa in 2002 after Senator Tom Harkin participated in an Everybody Wins! DC program and knew it could benefit children in Iowa. The original Everybody Wins! reorganized in 2013 as Read Ahead and all of the other affiliates are now stand-alone organizations.

10/08/2026
10/03/2026
10/01/2026

Everybody Wins! Iowa is looking for a few volunteers to help us hand out books at the Windsor Heights Fall Fest on Saturday October 3rd. EWI will have a table set up and will be offering children and their families free books to take home to keep! Any support we can get for this event is much appreciated - please consider signing up if you are available 🍂🌻📚
https://signup.com/go/vCaiGAv

Everybody Wins! Iowa is looking for a few volunteers to help us hand out books at the Windsor Heights Fall Fest on Satur...
10/01/2026

Everybody Wins! Iowa is looking for a few volunteers to help us hand out books at the Windsor Heights Fall Fest on Saturday October 3rd. EWI will have a table set up and will be offering children and their families free books to take home to keep! Any support we can get for this event is much appreciated - please consider signing up if you are available 🍂🌻📚

https://signup.com/go/vCaiGAv

Autumn is here! A great time to cozy up with a beloved favorite or discover a new book. 🍁🍂⛅ Credit for comic: WholesomeN...
09/22/2026

Autumn is here! A great time to cozy up with a beloved favorite or discover a new book. 🍁🍂⛅

Credit for comic: WholesomeNsuch Art Ray Greenberg

09/21/2026
05/04/2026

EWI volunteers of all kinds, join us today at Lua Brewing to celebrate a great year of Power Read! Drop in from 4-6, we can’t wait to see you! 🍻☀️📚

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901 Walnut Street #208
Des Moines, IA
50309

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