Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial services firm that lost 658 employees in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, is giving back.
The corporate, in what has been a practice, is donating to charity — including (*11*)The Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund — all its global revenues from trading during the twenty second anniversary Monday.
The firm is hoping to lift $8-12 million.
Launched in 2002, Charity Day invites celebrities and other guests to affix Cantor Fitzgerald’s licensed brokers on trading floors to conduct transactions and lift funds.
Amongst the celebrity ambassadors invited this 12 months are Nicole Kidman and her husband Keith Urban, Charlize Theron, Patrick Dempsey, Matthew McConaughey, Regina Hall, and former President Bill Clinton.
The relief fund began immediately after 9/11 and has provided $180 million in direct aid and health advantages to families of its perished employees.
It has also donated nearly $380 million overall — including to 150 groups.
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In recent times, tens of millions of dollars has been earmarked for victims of natural disasters like hurricanes in Puerto Rico, victims of Super Storm Sandy in Recent York, tornadoes in Oklahoma and fires in California, said Edith “Edie” Lutnick, president and co-founder of the relief 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 Ground Zero.
Howard Lutnik — CEO before and after 9/11 — stays in charge.
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The corporate’s headquarters was positioned on the top floors of the World Trade Center’s north tower that collapsed.
“We lost two-thirds of our workforce,” Edie Lutnick said.
Edie and Howard Lutnick also lost their younger brother, Gary, who worked for the firm and died in the attacks.
The firm accounted for a couple of quarter of those killed in the attack on the World Trade Center complex — greater than every other entity, including the city Fire Department, which lost 343 responders.
“You’re never OK. You discover a recent normal,” Edie Lutnick said.
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Howard Lutnick donated $1 million to the effort and asked his sister to run The Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund, which might be reached at (*11*)www.cantorrelief.org.
“It’s the biggest accomplishment in my life,” she said of the charity fundraising.