Basic Organization Information
EVERYBODY WINS! USA Inc
- Also Known As:
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EW! USA
- Physical Address:
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Wellesley, MA
02481
- EIN:
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20-3526239
- Web URL:
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www.everybodywins.org
- NTEE Category:
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O Youth Development
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O50 Youth Development Programs
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T Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Grantmaking
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T40 Voluntarism Promotion
- Year Founded:
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2005
- Ruling Year:
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2006
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Mission Statement
In the United States today, the typical middle-class child enters first grade with 1,000-1,700 hours of picture book reading time. The same child from a low-income family averages just 25 hours. The American literacy gap emerges early and only widens with time. According to the 2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Nation's Report Card, only 46% of low-income 4th graders read at or above the basic level compared to 77% of their middle-class peers. This stark disparity between low-income and higher-income children's reading abilities points to an education crisis in dire need of attention. Children raised in poverty often begin school with limited exposure to books and, as a result, underdeveloped literacy and language skills. In the U.S., 40% of children come from low-income families. These 29.2 million children hear only 1/2 to 1/3 as many spoken words as children in more affluent households. According to the report of the National Commission on Reading, Becoming a Nation of Readers, 'the single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.' By matching volunteers with at-risk elementary students for read aloud sessions, Everybody Wins! (EW!) engages one of the nation's greatest resources, corporate volunteers, to combat the literacy crisis. Reading mentors enhance self-esteem and encourage success by providing consistent, one-on-one, weekly attention and serving as role models.
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Chief Executive
Ms. Olivia Mathews
Term:
Since
Mar
2011
Chief Executive Profile:
Olivia Mathews is the National Executive Director of Everybody Wins! USA, a national children's literacy and mentoring nonprofit serving over 12,000 children in 16 cities. Her related experience
includes working as an assistant principal at a public school in Cambridge, MA,
and earning an Ed.M. at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in
Administration. In 2002, she founded Everybody Wins! Metro Boston (EWMB).
In her five years of leadership at EWMB, Olivia raised more than $500,000 and
brought more than 30 corporate groups together to participate in the Power
Lunch program. Under her leadership EVERYBODY WINS! Metro Boston grew to
a paid staff of ten and trained a network of more than 500 volunteer
mentors to read one-on-one weekly with children at schools in the Boston area.
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