Charles Schwab Celebrates 20 years of Schwab Volunteer Week
Schwab Employees Volunteer to Serve Nearly 350 Nonprofits Nationwide
While Schwab employees have been volunteering and giving back to their communities since the company’s founding in 1973, Schwab formalized its annual volunteer event in 2004 as a single day of service with just over 1,000 employee volunteers serving 37 nonprofits. This year, as the company celebrates twenty years of the program, known as Schwab Volunteer Week, approximately 8,000 volunteers – more than one quarter of the company’s workforce – are staffing more than 625 projects benefitting nearly 350 nonprofits across the
"Schwab was built on a spirit of service for our clients that extends into our communities, and Schwab Volunteer Week has been a big part of that spirit of community service for the past 20 years,” said
Financial literacy has long been a cornerstone of Schwab Volunteer Week. For 2023, approximately 600 employees will volunteer at 74 Moneywise America projects including Boys & Girls Club Reality Stores, JA-in-a-Day, Girl Scout Financial Literacy badges, in-person and virtual classroom Moneywise American trainings, and a financial literacy Game Day with Gigi’s Playhouse, a Down syndrome achievement center in
The remaining 7,000+ employee volunteers will deploy to a wide variety of projects outside the realm of financial literacy, including walking and cleaning animals with Humane Society San Diego, assembling food boxes with Mission Central Mobile Food Pantry in
Follow Schwab Volunteer Week on social media at #Schwab4Good.
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