Everybody Wins! is a literacy and mentoring organization whose mission is to reach children while they are young, stimulate their interest in reading, and encourage them to believe that they can succeed in school and in life.

Description and/or History:
Everybody Wins! runs read-aloud programs that encourage children to read for pleasure. Our largest program is Power Lunch in which a caring adult volunteer is paired with a child in a nearby elementary school for weekly reading and conversation during the student's lunchtime. We run Power Lunch programs in 23 elementary schools in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens and typically partner with local businesses and other nonprofit institutions who provide us with volunteers and some of our funding. We are starting to recruit volunteers from the community. Applicants will be screened. Our office is located in Manhattan.
New York business executive Arthur Tannenbaum and his wife, Phyllis, always enjoyed reading to their three children. Phyllis’s experience as an elementary school teacher, combined with the Tannenbaums’ experience parenting their own children through the New York City public school system, inspired them to make the one-to-one reading aloud experience available to other children and adults. Arthur visited a school near his office during lunch hour to read with a student and colleagues soon joined. This was the genesis of Power Lunch. When Arthur retired in 1991, he founded Everybody Wins! and devoted his time to expanding the program. From five readers in one Manhattan public school, Power Lunch now operates in 29 schools in the New York metropolitan area.

Contact person: Hope Geller, Director Of Communications, (212) 965-2289, (email)

Address:

50 Broad St, Suite 1720 New York, NY 10004 (See a map)