Cantor Fitzgerald, the monetary companies agency that misplaced 658 staff within the Sept. 11, 2001, assaults, is giving again.
The corporate, in what has been a practice, is donating to charity — together with The Cantor Fitzgerald Reduction Fund — all its international revenues from buying and selling in the course of the 22nd anniversary Monday.
The agency is hoping to lift $8-12 million.
Launched in 2002, Charity Day invitations celebrities and different friends to hitch Cantor Fitzgerald’s licensed brokers on buying and selling flooring to conduct transactions and lift funds.
Among the many movie star ambassadors invited this 12 months are Nicole Kidman and her husband Keith City, Charlize Theron, Patrick Dempsey, Matthew McConaughey, Regina Corridor, and former President Invoice Clinton.
The aid fund began instantly after 9/11 and has offered $180 million in direct assist and well being advantages to households of its perished staff.
It has additionally donated practically $380 million total — together with to 150 teams.
In recent times, thousands and thousands of {dollars} has been earmarked for victims of pure disasters like hurricanes in Puerto Rico, victims of Tremendous Storm Sandy in New York, tornadoes in Oklahoma and fires in California, mentioned Edith “Edie” Lutnick, president and co-founder of the aid fund and the brother of CEO Howard Lutnick.
The success of the charitable group highlights the resiliency of Cantor Fitzgerald, which has emerged stronger after the devastating lack of personnel at Floor Zero.
Howard Lutnik — CEO earlier than and after 9/11 — stays in cost.
The corporate’s headquarters was situated on the highest flooring of the World Commerce Heart’s north tower that collapsed.
“We misplaced two-thirds of our workforce,” Edie Lutnick mentioned.
Edie and Howard Lutnick additionally misplaced their youthful brother, Gary, who labored for the agency and died within the assaults.
The agency accounted for a few quarter of these killed within the assault on the World Commerce Heart complicated — greater than every other entity, together with town Fireplace Division, which misplaced 343 responders.
“You’re by no means OK. You discover a new regular,” Edie Lutnick mentioned.
Howard Lutnick donated $1 million to the trouble and requested his sister to run The Cantor Fitzgerald Reduction Fund, which will be reached at www.cantorrelief.org.
“It’s the best accomplishment in my life,” she mentioned of the charity fundraising.