Meet Daily Point of Light Award honoree Kris Anest. April is Global Volunteer Month, a global movement to recognize volunteers and people who actively support their communities, whether through volunteerism or other elements around the Points of Light Civic Circle®, like Kris. Read her story, and join the Global Volunteer Month celebration.
As a former history and economics teacher turned Charles Schwab employee, Kris Anest of Chandler, Arizona, is a long-time advocate for financial literacy and brings this passion to her community through service on two non-profit boards.
Kris sits on the board of the Arizona Council on Economic Education (ACEE) and Opportunity Community and Justice for Kids. As a co-chair for Schwab’s Phoenix Community Ambassador team, Kris organizes dozens of company volunteer events annually and stewards over $180,000 in annual community grants.
Since her childhood, Kris has been volunteering, whether through community service in school or as a candy striper in the local hospital.
“My mom is so important in my story,” Kris said. “She grew up dirt poor in South Tuscon. And she did everything she could to make sure we were educated, and I’m now in my third year of a Ph.D… She was tough, tough, tough. But all of the values she had, all that she learned, she passed on to us kids. She had us involved in everything, including community service. My mom planted the seeds and I never lost them.”
In 2022, Kris recruited 67 fellow Schwabbies to volunteer with the ACEE, a record for the organization. She leads Schwab Intern Day Volunteer events, participates as a judge in the SIFMA Foundation’s InvestWrite program, volunteers regularly with Boys & Girls Club and is a key mentor in Schwab Moneywise America program, which brings personal finance to under-resourced communities.
“Through Charles Schwab, I lead a committee where we’re trying to get financial literacy content into Title I and rural classrooms, and those…
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