Disaster Relief

Helping those in need

In times of crisis, we raise funds from the public and distribute them to charities that are actively working on the ground in affected areas.

We also engage in our own disaster relief efforts by collaborating with local public schools and government agencies to ensure families that have been impacted receive the direct financial support they need to repair and rebuild their lives.

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Hurricanes Maria and Irma

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Following the devastation from Hurricanes Maria and Irma in 2017, the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund worked with the office of San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz to help families whose homes were destroyed. Volunteers from Cantor Fitzgerald and its affiliates, along with those from the New York area, and clients from Scotiabank and Banco Santander, went to San Juan, Puerto Rico, to distribute direct financial aid to approximately 4,000 families in need.

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Hurricane Harvey

Houston, Texas

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.

The Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund led this effort thanks to a generous grant from the firms and partners of Cantor Fitzgerald, The Newmark Group, and BGC Group, along with donations from the general public. Allison and Howard Lutnick, along with Edie Lutnick, Founder and President of the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund, worked with Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner’s office to make the program a reality.

The Relief Fund could not have achieved this without the invaluable efforts of school officials and administrators from across 15 school districts covering over 200 Houston-area schools. They worked to identify the 5,000 families who lost the most and now need the most.

Allison Lutnick, Director of Disaster Relief Operations, Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund said: “Our hearts go out to the families of Houston who have been displaced by and are struggling to recover from Hurricane Harvey. No parent should be faced with the inability to provide for their children: a toy to play with, a book to read or sheets for their bed. We are honored and humbled to have provided important aid and support to Houston’s wonderful and resilient mothers and fathers through the Relief Fund.” Read the multimedia press release here.

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Tornado

Moore, Oklahoma

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.

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Superstorm Sandy

New York and New Jersey

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.

Through the remarkable efforts of our dedicated volunteers and the employees of Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Group, we were able to help families in the communities hit hardest by the storm recover from the devastation of Sandy.

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“We created the Relief Fund to support the families of those we lost on September 11th. We continue to honor our friends and colleagues by providing essential financial aid to families around the world that are impacted by devastating events. We’re grateful for our incredibly supportive community and our employees across the Cantor Fitzgerald family who have made generous donations and volunteered their time to support those in need.”

Edie Lutnick

President and Co-Founder
Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund