Zoe Winkler Met Husband Rob Reinis After Student’s Mom Asked to Set Her Up with Her ‘Best Friend's Ex-Boyfriend' (Exclusive)

Zoe Winkler Reinis' lifelong dream of becoming a coach besides led her to meet her husband, Rob Reinis.

The 44-year-old cofounder of This Is About Humanity tells PEOPLE she knew since she was a small woman that school was her calling.

"In my bathroom, I person a framed image that I made successful kindergarten that says, 'My sanction is Zoe. I'm beautiful and cute. I will commencement arsenic a babysitter. Then I will beryllium a teacher. Then I will beryllium a mom. I will person agelong nails and cats,'" Zoe shares, jokingly adding, "I person everything isolated from for nan cats."

The photograph serves arsenic a reminder that moving pinch kids was ever her passion. When she became a teacher, she recovered that she "absolutely loved it."

One day, a student's mom mentioned mounting nan then-single coach up pinch a man she knew.

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"A mom successful my people came successful 1 time and was like, 'I really want you to meet my champion friend's ex-boyfriend. I want to group you up.' And I was like, 'That sounds truthful deranged, and perfectly not,' " she laughs.

"Then, a mates weeks later, she kept saying it to me. Her sanction is Alana and her daughter, Eden, was my student. A fewer much weeks later, nan champion friend came successful and she was like, 'It's not weird. We dated astatine camp. I'm joined now. I deliberation you'd beryllium great.' "

With nan blessing, Zoe decided to return a chance connected nan date. "And that's really I met my husband," she shares.

Zoe and Rob tied nan knot successful 2009 and now stock 3 kids — sons Ace, Jules and Gus. Her family, including parents Henry Winkler and Stacey Weitzman, is each progressive successful supporting Zoe's activity successful This Is About Humanity.

The instauration precocious had its yearly This Is About Humanity Soiree, hosted astatine nan Winklers' home. Events for illustration these let Zoe and her cofounders, Elsa Marie Collins and Yolanda Selene Walther-Meade, to bespeak connected what they've built.

"We really effort to item organizations connected nan crushed that are doing really important work. I deliberation portion of what is truthful unthinkable astir This is astir Humanity is that it is wholly transparent. There's nary overhead. My dada ever jokes, 'We don't moreover salary for insubstantial clips.' There's nothing. All nan money goes to nan orgs that are doing nan work," she shares.

At nan bosom of it each are 3 women who run pinch volition arsenic they fig retired really to make nan biggest impact.

"We really are very clear connected wherever each azygous cent and each of our clip is going. We person unthinkable volunteers. It's really conscionable these 3 moms that came together and were like, 'What are we going to do? How do we do it? And really do we do it truthful that it's really elemental and easy for group to help?'" she shares. "And it doesn't ever person to beryllium money. It could beryllium their time, it could beryllium a talent that they have. We wanted everyone to consciousness for illustration they could make a quality and person that experience."

The organization came retired up of nan arena to make it each possible. Not only was nan full Winkler family connected deck, but Zoe's kids' friends besides lent their time.

"I had a bunch of kids from my son's school, his girls' varsity volleyball team, thief maine worldly each nan gift bags. My 13-year-old wants to beryllium a chef, truthful it was his astir typical night. In years past, they've each helped nan chefs cook. My 8-year-old is besides very helpful, arsenic is my 10-year-old," nan proud mom shares.

"These boys springiness their bosom and soul. Every year, for nan holidays, we do this astonishing arena wherever we person volunteers adopt a family and capable their wish list," she says. "For my son's barroom mitzvah, his task was to cod money to do a immense artifact table. So, successful December, he did a artifact array and raised complete $25,000!"

She continues, "We had toys and toys and toys for days. All 3 of my kids sewage to manus retired nan toys and return nan kids shopping done nan area and determine what they want. I'm truthful grateful that they get to beryllium a portion of it, arsenic do Elsa's kids, Yolanda's kids, my friends' kids. It's a spot that's conscionable truthful focused connected community."

Zoe is grateful that her full family is "such a large portion of This Is About Humanity."

"I judge being a mom is nan logic that This Is About Humanity moreover began. Because I deliberation it's nan awesome equalizer. It doesn't matter. The only point that separates america is wherever we were born, but we're moms. That benignant of small heart and that emotion override everything other successful my life."