9/11 Tribute Center programs are offered throughout the year. Lectures, educational workshops and support programs are available to unite family members who lost loved ones, survivors, Lower Manhattan residents, rescue and recovery workers and volunteers who assisted in the aftermath of 9/11. Visit tributewtc.org for a schedule of upcoming programs and events.
Police Officer Robert O’Donnell of the MTA Police Department is a former NYPD officer who worked the recovery effort at the World Trade Center site and who now suffers with site-related cancer that has forced his retirement. A benefit is being held for PO O’Donnell and his family on Sunday, April 26, 2015 from 2:00pm […]
The American Cancer Society will hold a Relay for Life event at the South Street Seaport from Friday, May 15, 2015 at 5:00pm to Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 5:00am. Cancer is ravaging the September 11th community – many rescue and recovery workers are sick with cancer from their work at the World Trade Center […]
Frankly Speaking about Cancer will present a webinar entitled Advances in Immunotherapy on Tuesday, May 26, 2015, from 6:30pm to 8:00pm. Speakers will be April K.S. Salama, MD, of the Melanoma Clinical Research, at Duke University School of Medicine; H. Kim Lyerly, MD, George Barth Geller Professor of Cancer Research, Professor of Surgery, Associate Professor of Pathology and […]
The 2015 Jimmy Straine Invitational will be held on Monday, June 8, 2015 at the New Jersey National Golf Club in Basking Ridge, NJ. The day will begin with registration and lunch on the terrace at 11:30am. Please find your cart by 12:45pm for the 1:00pm shotgun start. Golf will be played in scramble format. […]
A bone marrow drive for FF Jimmy Martinez will take place on Sunday, June 14, 2015 from 8:00am to 2:00pm at Our Lady Queen of Peace R.C. Church in Staten Island. Martinez, who responded to the terrorist attacks of 9/11 was diagnosed in 2013 with multiple myeloma from his time at the recovery. He is […]
Support the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society on Saturday, August 29, 2015 by Shopping for a Cause at Macy’s. Blood cancers are one of the most common cancers among World Trade Center recovery workers, so you can shop to help those sickened by the debris from the terrorist attacks. Macy's is partnering with The Leukemia & […]