Our Board of Directors is made up of passionate community leaders who believe in the power of reading to change lives. Each member brings unique experience and dedication to advancing Everybody Wins! Iowa’s mission, connecting children with caring mentors who inspire confidence, curiosity, and a lifelong love of books.
As a mentoring organization, we know that meaningful relationships make all the difference. Through weekly one-on-one reading sessions, our volunteers help students strengthen literacy skills while building trust, consistency, and connection. Guided by our Board, Everybody Wins! Iowa continues to grow its impact across Central Iowa—creating more opportunities for children to feel supported, valued, and excited about learning.
Betsy Noyes
President
Rod Bradley II
VP/Personnel Chair
Stacey Cooper
Secretary
Tyler Brommel
Treasurer
Elizabeth Heffernan
Marsha Kephart
Tracy Petersen
Morgan Schultz
Meg Winter
Interested in joining our board of directors? View our informational video to learn more and see if it would be the right fit for you!
Join A Board Committee with EWI!
Everybody Wins! Iowa invites you to get more involved by joining one of our Board Committees.
Each committee meets once a month for about an hour and plays an important role in guiding and supporting our work.
Learn more about each committee below and find the one that’s the right fit for you.
Public Relations Committee
Resource Development Committee
The purpose of Everybody Wins! Iowa Public Relations Committee is to increase awareness of Everybody Wins! Iowa. The committee will develop and implement a marketing plan to create awareness of the good work that EWI does by building marketing campaigns, holding special events, promoting events, creating advertising and posting on social media platforms, conducting program outreach presentations, and providing oversight for all printed and online publications, such as brochures, flyers, leaflets and whitepapers. This committee often also manages the EWI website directly or oversees someone who does. The following are the responsibilities of the committee:
The purpose of Everybody Wins! Iowa Resource Development Committee is to seek opportunities to attract corporate sponsors, philanthropists, and large donors; secure grants and endowments; participate in fundraising events, and determine new ways of generating funds for Everybody Wins! Iowa’s literacy and mentoring programs. The following are the responsibilities of the committee:
• Developing an annual marketing plan
• Creating and approving common language for all written content produced on behalf of the organization
• Creating and maintaining the social media calendar (writing content as well as studying metrics to determine impact)
• Creating videos, posters, and all other promotional materials (brochures, t-shirts, pens, etc.)
• Increasing awareness of the program through special events such as book fairs, volunteer fairs, promotional booths, community wide events, etc.
• Developing methods to attract volunteers for programming and special events
• Developing the annual special events calendar
• Gaining individual donors and individual volunteer reading mentors and determining a strategy for contacting and following up with these individuals
• Developing an individual donor campaign calendar
• Gaining organizational sponsors (corporate, churches, service clubs, etc.) to fund Power Read programs and recruit volunteer reading mentors
• Determining strategies for contacting and following up with organizations and developing an organizational recruitment campaign calendar
• Writing and submitting grants and creating a grant calendar of assignments (all board members will assist with writing grants)
• Developing an annual fundraising event calendar
