Our Community
Giving Back and Serving Our Community
Many members of our team have lived in Arizona their entire lives and are proud to call this area home. When not giving their time to their clients and families, ABLE Financial Group’s team enjoy giving back by regularly volunteering, serving as chairs and board members for a variety of organizations, and donating time and money to their favorite causes. Our practice also has a charity giving program in which we match many of the contributions made by ABLE employees.
Adam M. Brooks, CFP®
- Past Chairman of the Board of the Valley of the Sun Jewish Community Center
- Established the Professional Leadership Program with the Jewish Family and Children’s Center
- Former Chair of the Arizona Community Foundation’s Tax & Legal Seminar Committee
- Established the ABLE Financial Group Philanthropic Fund at the Center for Jewish Philanthropy
- Co-Chair of the Jewish National Fund Annual Breakfast
- 2024 Valley of the Sun JCC Irv Shuman Award Recipient
Larry Van Quathem, CFP®
- Board of Directors, Board of Governors for the Boys and Girls Club of Scottsdale
- Formerly served on the Board of Directors for the Association for Supportive Child Care
- Former member of the Scottsdale 20-30 Club
- Trustee Emeritus & Former member of the Delta Sigma Pi Leadership Foundation Board of Trustees
Lane Reynolds
- Serves on the local high school booster club
- Active church member, through which he is involved in humanitarian and charitable causes
- Volunteer leader and Scout Master in the Boy Scouts of America
Laurel Kutler, CFP®
- Member of the Arizona Community Foundation's Tax and Legal Seminar Committee
Matt Cherry, CFP®
- Member of the Professional Advisory Board for SAARC
Brandon Perlow
- Board of Directors, Gesher Disability Resources
- Board of Directors, University of Wisconsin Hillel Foundation
- Board of Directors, Alumni & Friends of the London School of Economics in the United States
- Chair of the Board, Phoenix Sister Cities Global Links Luncheon
Rick Steiman
- Volunteers time helping the organization Smile on Seniors
- Donates 10 percent of his earnings to charities each year
- Donates to blood drives as often as he can
- Rick donated a kidney to someone who was on dialysis in 2021
ABLE Financial Group Supports
- American Cancer Society
- Area Agency on Aging
- Art Association of Arizona
- Arizona Association of Providers for People with Disabilities
- Arizona Coalition to End Sexual & Domestic Violence
- Arizona Community Foundation
- Arizona Crime Victim Rights
- Arizona Museum of National History
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Phoenix
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale
- Camp Ramah
- Centers for Habilitation
- Center for Jewish Philanthropy of Greater Phoenix
- Chabad of Arizona
- Chandler Education Foundation
- Desert Stage Theater
- Gesher Disability Resources
- Girl Scouts Arizona Cactus-Pine
- Greater Phoenix Jewish Film Festival
- Hadassah
- Hillel ASU
- Jewish Family & Children Service
- Jewish Free Loan
- Jewish National Fund
- KAET Channel Eight
- Native Health
- Phoenix Sister Cities
- Playball Youth Baseball
- Power Paws Assistance Dogs
- Prevent Child Abuse Arizona
- Scottsdale Training and Rehabilitation Service (S.T.A.R.S.)
- Smile on Seniors
- Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center (SARRC)
- State Bar of Arizona
- St. Mary’s Food Bank
- St. Mary Medical Center Foundation
- Swift Youth Foundation
- Tax & Legal Seminar
- The Friendship Circle
- University of Wisconsin Hillel Foundation
- Valley Beit Midrash
- Valley of the Sun Jewish Community Center
- Young Life Military