The 2026 Race to the Top is over!
We had a great day despite intermittent rain showers, and raised over $41,000 to support children and reading!
Read more about the 2026 Race day here.
And join us for the Race next year on Sunday, August 29, 2027!
Every year board members, staff, mentors, families, and friends of Everybody Wins! participate in the Catamount Trail Association‘s Race to the Top of Vermont to raise funds for Everybody Wins! Vermont and match more reading mentors with children.
You can help! Click here to pitch in for kids.
Keep children reading with their mentors, no matter what.
Everybody Wins! Race to the Top 2026 was sponsored by these friends of reading:
Anne Graham & Beth Wright
The Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation
Northfield Savings Bank
Want more information about Everybody Wins! and the Race? Read on!
Here’s what children say about Everybody Wins!
My mentor is so much fun and she helps me.
Every August, friends of reading climb Mt. Mansfield in the annual Race to the Top of Vermont to raise funds to keep children and mentors reading together. It’s 4.3 miles up the Toll Road and a great feeling of success to reach the top of Vermont!
More than 482 children were matched with mentors in 25-26 to read every week.
I got to read a hard book and understand it, and if I was in a bad mood, my mentor cheered me up.
To make all this happen, to bring reading to even more children in the next year, we need your help! Come hike the mountain with us (or volunteer for the Race) and raise pledges from your network of friends, family, and colleagues to keep children reading with Everybody Wins!
My mentor made me feel happy for being myself.
Come pandemic, high water, or national upheaval, children will read with their Everybody Wins! mentors this fall—and the Race will help them start off strong.
