When disaster strikes, we ensure relief reaches the people who need it most. We raise direct financial assistance, we organize and distribute funds, and we provide volunteers from our colleagues at Cantor Fitzgerald and our affiliates. We work globally with charities to ensure families and individuals are given the dignity and financial support they need to repair, rebuild and thrive.
On February 11 & 12, 2018, The Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund held the Hurricane Harvey Family Relief distribution event. It was the largest distribution of its kind in the Relief Fund’s history, giving a total of approximately $5 million to those families hardest hit by Hurricane Harvey.
We pledged to help families affected by the May 20, 2013, tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, the same way that we helped those impacted by Superstorm Sandy. Our team of volunteers and employees travelled to Oklahoma to distribute $1,000 prepaid debit cards to each family who had a child enrolled in the Moore Public School district whose house was damaged or destroyed by the tornado.
In 2013, Cantor Fitzgerald, BGC Group, and the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund committed $10 million to families in the New York area who were severely affected by Superstorm Sandy. We adopted 19 elementary schools in Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, Staten Island and New Jersey, providing $1,000 prepaid debit cards for immediate assistance to nearly 10,000 families with children enrolled in these schools.