HOUSTON, Feb. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cantor
Fitzgerald Relief Fund today announced that it has worked with
school officials in the Houston
area to donate prepaid $1,000
American Express® cash cards to 5,000 of the families most severely
affected by Hurricane Harvey.
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The donation is made possible by the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief
Fund as well as a grant from the firms and partners of Cantor
Fitzgerald, The Newmark Group, and BGC Partners.
Allison and Howard
Lutnick, along with Edie
Lutnick, Founder and President of the Cantor Fitzgerald
Relief Fund, are spearheading this program and have worked with the
office of Houston's Mayor
Sylvester Turner to make this
possible. More than 200 volunteers were mobilized to effectively
distribute direct financial aid to deserving families at
Houston's George R. Brown
Convention Center on Sunday, February
11 and Monday, February 12.
"We are delighted to be able to help those families most
severely impacted by Hurricane Harvey," said Howard W. Lutnick, Chairman and CEO of
Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. and BGC Partners, Inc. "In the
aftermath of 9/11, we learned how important it was to provide
direct financial aid to families in crisis and, more recently, to
those struggling in the aftermath of natural disasters like
Hurricane Harvey," said Howard W.
Lutnick, Chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. and
BGC Partners, Inc.
Allison Lutnick, Mr.
Lutnick's wife and one of the leaders of this effort, said: "The
Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund successfully rolled out a similar
program in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy with excellent results.
We knew from recent experience that this combination of community
outreach and direct financial aid enables us to have the greatest
impact for the greatest number of families."
Edie Lutnick, Executive
Director of the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund, said: "The Cantor
Fitzgerald Relief Fund is uniquely positioned to aid families faced
with unimaginable loss and chaos in the aftermath of natural
disasters. We know how important it is to help families in crisis
be the decision makers around their own urgent needs and
priorities."
About the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund
On
September 11, 2001, 658 Cantor
Fitzgerald friends and colleagues and 61 Eurobrokers employees were
lost in the World Trade Center terrorist attack. The families
left behind struggled not only with the death of their loved ones
but with insurance legalities that prevented them from receiving
the financial support they desperately needed.
On September 14, 2001, the Cantor
Fitzgerald Relief Fund ("Relief Fund"), was formed with an initial
donation of $1 million from Cantor
Fitzgerald and BGC Partners Chairman and CEO, Howard Lutnick.
Mr. Lutnick and the Firm's partners underwrote 100 percent of
the expenses of the Relief Fund so that every penny of its income
was paid out to those in need. In addition to the families of
Cantor Fitzgerald's employees who were lost on 9/11, the Relief
Fund also assisted family members of World Trade Center victims
from 14 other companies. The Relief Fund raised and
distributed over $180 million to over
800 families and 932 children of the victims of this tragedy.
Since 9/11, the Relief Fund expanded its scope to not only
include victims of terrorism, but to also assist victims of natural
disasters and emergencies, including victims of Superstorm Sandy,
the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma,
Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast, the tsunami of 2004 and the
Haiti earthquake. The Relief Fund
also works to assist wounded members of the U.S. military. Since
its inception, it has distributed over $304
million.
To donate, please visit:
https://www.cantorrelief.org/donate-now/
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