This weekend was somber anniversary for Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial services firm that lost 658 employees -- about two-thirds of its workforce -- at its headquarters on the 101st-105th floors of One World Trade Center. Today the company and BGC Partners in London held their Annual Charity Day, raising some $12 million dollars for dozens of awesome charities around the world. Celebrities like former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, actors Mickey Rourke and Michael J. Fox, Kim Kardashian, Chris Bosh, and Erin Andrews all headed to the company's Midtown office to pitch in. Kate Upton was there too, and, well, we'd be doing the Bros of the World a huge injustice to not show you her I.R. bunny get-up, answering phones while front and center at a trading workstation.
“Charity Day is always a relocating experience, and this year’s has been generally touching as we have reached a 10 year anniversary of 9/11,” pronounced Howard W. Lutnick, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cantor Fitzgerald. “We are unapproachable to respect a loving friends and colleagues by assist and support to good causes. It is by munificence and hospitality that we spin this comfortless day into one that is certain and uplifting. I’d like to appreciate a clients, employees and everybody who assimilated us in honoring a 658 employees who perished on 9/11 by assisting charities around a world.”
“This year outlines a 10th Anniversary of 9/11 and we continue to commemorate a comfortless detriment of a desired ones by donating a revenues from a day to several causes both during a internal and inhabitant level,” pronounced Shawn P. Matthews, Chief Executive Officer of Cantor Fitzgerald Co. “Our organization rebuilt itself in a days after 9/11 and we will continue to commemorate and compensate a respects to those we mislaid by this day of philanthropy. We also wish to demonstrate a deepest thankfulness to all a charities around a universe who participated and finished currently a smashing success.”
BGC President, Shaun Lynn, said: “Every year we are advantageous to be assimilated by luminary guests, clients, staff and volunteers who together lift as most as they can, in memory of a staff we lost. This year, some-more than ever, we have finished a pinnacle to do them proud. Most importantly, Howard and we would quite like to appreciate a tellurian clients for ancillary us so good over a final 10 years. Without their support, we would not be where we are today.”
Participating charities from Cantor Fitzgerald include: Action America, Autism Speaks, Children’s Tumor Fund, Fisher Alzheimer, The Readiness Center in St Joseph Michigan, Good Shepherds, Flight 93 National Memorial, Team Tomorrow Inc., Deafness Research Foundation, Happy Hearts Fund, Dream Granting Program, Friends of Firefighters, Friends of LESC Inc., Noreen Fraser Foundation, Peter C. Alderman Foundation, Martin Luther King Jr. Institute, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, Let’s Get Ready, Reach The World, Sep 11th Education Trust, Todd Ouida Children’s Foundation, 9/11 Day of Service (My Good Deed), The 52nd Street Project, Samaritans of NYC, Tribute WTC, Tuesday’s Children, Voices of 9/11, and more.
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