2013 Charities

To ensure no child who struggles to communicate is left out or left behind.
Our vision is a world where all children and young people who struggle to communicate receive the help they need so they can have a happy childhood, make progress at school and thrive as adults.
For more information, please visit: www.ican.org.uk

Fundação Dorina Nowill facilitates the social inclusion of people with visual impairments, respecting individual and social needs through specialized products and services. They offer free of charge specialized services to the blind and to people with low vision, extensive to their families, which includes assessments and diagnosis, a low vision clinic, special education, reahabilitation, orientation and professional placement of the visually impaired.
For more information, please visit: www.fundacaodorina.org.br

Instituto Reação acts in the low income communities of Rocinha, Tubiacanga, Cidade de Deus and Pequena Cruzada, in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, promoting human development through sports and complementary educational activities. The philosophy of the project is based on the strength of sport as a crucial element for engagement and positive change. Judo, the means by which the Instituto Reação reaches its objectives, is based on principles of discipline, respect and non-violence, which can successfully impact a child´s self-esteem, determination and self-confidence.
For more information, please visit: www.institutoreacao.org.br

Naked Heart Foundation- Mission is to ensure that every child has the two things they need for a happy, fulfilling childhood – a loving family and a safe and stimulating place to play. Their aim to make sure that no child with living parents ends up in an orphanage or children’s home. They are working to tackle the stigma of disability, so that no parent feels pressured to give up a disabled child and are working with families who have made the challenging decision to keep their disabled child at home, in order to give them free access to a full range of services and the support of specialists familiar with international best practice and modern technology. They want every child to have access to a vibrant, safe and stimulating place to play. Every neighborhood, children’s hospital and children’s home should have a modern play area that is suitable for all children, whatever their physical ability. They believe that play is a necessity, not a luxury.
For more information, please visit: http://www.nakedheart.org/en/

Griffin Theatre Company creates and develops the best Australian stories, for the widest possible audience. The Griffin Fund is committed to expanding leadership pathways for artists, international exchange opportunities and education programs. It is an investment in the future prospects of Australian writing and the artists we work with.
For more information, please visit: www.griffintheatre.com.au

Ace Africa is an experienced and award winning international development organisation that works with rural communities living in intense poverty in Kenya and Tanzania. Ace Africa takes a long-term view, focusing on working within communities to deliver effective, sustainable development programmes in four key areas: child development, community health and well-being, agriculture and farming and economic empowerment. In the last decade, Ace Africa has helped over 650,000 children and their communities achieve lasting, durable, embedded self-sufficiency.
For more information, please visit: www.ace-africa.org

We work towards achieving our vision through our four Mission pillars:

We look to investigate and tackle eating disorders at their roots and build preventive measures and treatments for people of all ages.

We support academics and practitioners in building, collecting and disseminating knowledge, research and evidence for the benefit of all.

We build platforms for dialogue between academics, individuals with eating disorders to promote dialogue and engagement to serve their respective needs.

We work to develop and establish standards and tools to further the understanding and tackling of these illnesses with all involved.

For more information please visit – www.succeedfoundation.org/

There are currently 20,000 children and young people in the UK living with serious or life limiting illness. This figure is increasing on an annual basis. Rays of Sunshine believes every child deserves to experience happiness and put their illness on hold, even if it’s only for one day.

• We do not operate a waiting list
• We include the whole family – when a child is unwell it affects the whole family
• We maintain a relationship with our wish families
• Our wish children become part of the Rays of Sunshine family

For more information, please visit: www.raysofsunshine.org.uk

To use sport and play to educate and empower children and youth to overcome the effects of poverty, conflict and disease in disadvantaged communities.
For more information, please visit: www.righttoplay.com

A future where every young person, whatever their background or ability, is given the chance to fulfill their true potential and become a valued member of their community.

We do this by facilitating positive and permanent change in young people’s lives – alongside knowledge, skills, experience and long term positive support, we give them the self-belief to aspire and achieve. Our success can be largely attributed to our inspirational Instructors who are predominately ex-service personnel. With their diverse life experiences and specialist skills, our Instructors are excellent role models, something often lacking in young people’s lives.

For more information, please visit: www.skillforce.org

To provide all individuals with special needs, regardless of background, the same opportunity through professional training and care to realize their potential and integrate into the wider community.
For more information, please visit: http://alnoorspneeds.ae/

– 100% of revenues donated to charities worldwide –

–  Top celebrities come to the trading floor in support of Charity Day –

– HRH Prince Harry and HRH Prince William break the world record for the largest foreign currency trade, closing a foreign exchange deal worth euro 25 billion –

New York, London (September 11, 2013) – BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP), a leading global brokerage company servicing the wholesale financial and real estate markets, announced today that, together with its affiliate Cantor Fitzgerald, approximately $12 million was raised for charities globally at the companies’ annual Charity Day on Wednesday, September 11,2013. Each year, BGC and Cantor Fitzgerald donate 100% of their global revenues on Charity Day to the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund and charities around the world.

Begun in commemoration of the 658 Cantor employees lost in the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, Charity Day has expanded to assist charitable causes worldwide, in concert with the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund.  Since its inception Charity Day has raised approximately $101 million globally.

“Charity Day represents our Company’s fundamental commitment to helping others and helps turn the tragic anniversary of September 11 into a positive and uplifting day,” said Howard W. Lutnick, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BGC Partners. “We feel privileged to assist so many charities around the world, in addition to supporting victims of Hurricane Sandy and the Oklahoma tornado.  I’d like to thank everyone who supports Charity Day for their enthusiasm and generosity of spirit.”

BGC President, Shaun Lynn, said: “We are extremely grateful to our clients and employees for their consistent support of Charity Day today and throughout the years across the firm.  I’d like to extend my heartfelt thanks to our many celebrity guests who graciously donated their time today in several of our offices.”

Distinguished guests representing many participating charities joined licensed brokers on the trading floors to conduct transactions with clients in BGC Partners’ offices in London and New York as well as Paris, Hong Kong, São Paulo and Sydney, and other locations, and at Cantor’s New York office.

In London, BGC’s celebrity guests included: HRH Prince Harry and HRH Prince William, actors Sean Bean, Idris Elba and Sheridan Smith, comedian Jennifer Saunders, television personalities David Hasselhoff and Chris Evans, manager of Tottenham Hotspur football club Andre Villas-Boas, rock musician Ronnie Wood, singers and songwriters Rod Stewart and Melanie C, former Formula One racing driver Sir Jackie Stewart, and model Penny Lancaster, among many others.

This morning, HRH Prince Harry and HRH Prince William broke the world record for the largest foreign currency trade when they closed a foreign exchange deal worth euro 25 billion. BGC’s Charity Day in London started in spectacular style when Dougie Lampkin, multiple world champion motorcycle trials rider, rode his motorcycle through the ground floor lobby where BGC is located at One Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, and then through the trading floors, jumping turnstiles and desks on his way. Footage of the sequence is available here.

At BGC’s New York offices, guests included musicians Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and Sean “Diddy” Combs, actors Tony Sirico, Bobby Cannavale and Edie Falco, Jenny McCarthy who is co-host of The View, Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton of WFAN 660 AM Radio who broadcast live from BGC, New York Knicks starters Carmelo Anthony, Tyson Chandler, Metta World Peace and other Knicks players, coach Jason Kidd and Deron Williams from the Brooklyn Nets, New York Rangers alumni Rod Gilbert and Adam Graves, Mark Teixeira from the New York Yankees, Washington Nationals manager Davey Johnson, baseball greats Tommy John and Al Leiter, 11-time Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte, ‘America’s Got Talent’ host Nick Cannon, supermodels Carol Alt and Lily Aldridge, and many others.

The mission of the Jubilee Center is to equip children and families with the tools not only to survive, but also to overcome the many barriers they face. We believe that all people deserve a fair chance at creating a fulfilling life based on self-esteem, self-reliance, personal accountability and respect for others.

For more information, please visit www.jubileecenterhoboken.org

The 52nd Street Project (The Project) is dedicated to the creation and production of new plays for, and often by, kids between the ages of nine and eighteen that reside in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood in New York City. The Project does this through a series of unique mentoring programs that match kids with professional theater artists.

For more information, please visit: http://www.52project.org

The mission of Wounded Warrior Project™ (WWP) is to honor and empower wounded warriors. WWP’s purpose is to raise awareness and enlist the public’s aid for the needs of injured service members, to help injured servicemen and women aid and assist each other, and to provide unique, direct programs and services to meet their needs. WWP is a national, nonpartisan organization headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.

For more information, please visit www.woundedwarriorproject.org

Casa da Criança Betinho is a children’s asylum for kids and teenagers with special needs that are confined in beds and have been abandoned by their families. The shelter offers a home as well as medical and educational assistance full time, aiming to increase these kids´s quality of life.
For more information, please vist: www.casadacriancabetinho.com.br

The New York Police and Fire Widows’ and Children’s Benefit Fund was founded in 1985 by Daniel J. “Rusty” Staub to assist the families of New York City Police Officers and Firefighters who have been killed in the line of duty.  Though the Benefit Fund was initially created to assist the families of New York City Police Officers and Firefighters only, after the tragic events of September 11, 2001, the Benefit Fund included among its beneficiaries the families of Port Authority officers and EMS personnel. The Benefit Fund’s mission has always been– and remains today– to continue making meaningful distributions to all of our widows for the duration of their lives.  The Benefit Fund makes annual distributions to over 600 families and takes pride in “answering the call” as our fallen heroes have done to protect our city.  Since its inception, the Benefit Fund has distributed over $123 million to beneficiary families and continues to provide a network of support and programs to ensure that the sacrifice made by their loved ones will never be forgotten.

For more information, please visit www.answerthecall.org

The AMEF is an association which funds medical research into liver disease and it supports children suffering with the disease.

For more information, please visit: http://www.maladie-de-foie-enfant.org/

Institution that aims to transform the lives of children and adolescents living in socially-vulnerable situations by promoting full-time formal and complementary education, culture, sports and basic health care in the Pavão-Pavãozinho and Cantagalo underprivileged community in Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone.

For more information, please visit: http://www.meninosdeluz.org.br/

To provide independence, dignity and mobility for children with different disabilities.

For more information, please visit: http://chipscharity.org/

Only Make Believe is a nonprofit organization that creates and performs free interactive theatre for children in hospitals and care facilities. OMB is committed to the principle that freeing a child’s imagination is a valuable part of the healing process.”
For more information, please visit: www.onlymakebelieve.org/

The Emergency Children’s Help Organization “ECHO” is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization dedicated to providing financial assistance to a child experiencing a challenging medical or living emergency. ECHO’s goal is to help ease the burden financially, along with brightening the child’s life during a time of crisis.
For more information, please visit: http://www.echoorganization.org/

Boys Hope Girls Hope of New York’s Mission is “to help academically capable and motivated children from at-risk situations meet their full potential and become men and women for others by providing them with the safe and stable living environment, academic support, and guidance they need to finish high school, graduate from college, and become responsible and productive citizens.”
For more information, please visit: www.bhghny.org

Baby Buggy®, founded by Jessica Seinfeld in 2001, is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing families in need with essential equipment, products, clothing, and services for their infants and children up to age 12. With an extensive network of community-based organizations across the country, Baby Buggy has donated more than 6 million items to thousands of children. Baby Buggy is a Better Business Bureau Accredited Charity, passing all 20
For more information, please visit: www.babybuggy.org

To facilitate individual and collective growth through initiatives that – 1) Restore a strong family unit, 2) Provide economic empowerment through entrepreneurship, 3) Encourage education and life skill development, and 4) Enhance spiritual growth.

For more information, please visit:
www.AllanHouston.com

The Bone Marrow & Cancer Foundation, founded in 1992, is dedicated to improving the quality of life for cancer and transplant patients and their families by providing vital financial assistance, comprehensive resources, educational information, physician referrals, and emotional support programs.

Guided by a medical advisory board of nationally-recognized cancer specialists and working with hospitals across the United States, the Bone Marrow & Cancer Foundation is the only organization of its kind that does not limit assistance to a specific disease, type of transplant or age range. For the past 27 years, the Foundation has connected patients and their families with the services they need—from diagnosis through survivorship—to make effective decisions about treatment and its aftermath. All of the Foundation’s programs and services are offered to patients and their families free of charge. For more information, please visit: http://bonemarrow.org/about/our-mission

The G-Unity Foundation will provide grants to nonprofit organizations that focus on improving the quality of life for low-income and underserved communities.

For more information, please visit:
www.gunityfoundation.org

Born out of Todd’s own successful struggle with childhood anxiety, the mission of Todd Ouida Children’s Foundation is to financially support psychological services for children of families in need, promote mental health initiatives for all children, raise awareness and reduce the stigma of anxiety and depression disorders in children, recognizing the need for early intervention.

For more information, please visit:
www.mybuddytodd.org

The Boomer Esiason Foundation is a dynamic partnership of leaders in the medical and business communities joining with a committed core of volunteers to heighten awareness, education and quality of life for those affected by cystic fibrosis, while providing financial support to research aimed at finding a cure.

For more information, please visit:
www.esiason.org

The mission of the Tony Alt Memorial Foundation, Inc. is to provide financial assistance to organizations whose purpose is focused on today’s youth; providing unavailable resources, guidance and care to those in need in an effort to improve hope and opportunities for productive and successful lives.

For more information, please visit:
www.tamfi.org

The Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund’s mission is to support victims of terrorism, emergencies and natural disasters.  They provide direct financial assistance to hundreds of charities around the world, and help raise awareness to small charities that have the potential to make big impacts. 100% of every dollar raised by The Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund goes to victims of terrorism, natural disasters and emergencies, direct service charities, and wounded members of our military.

For more information, please visit:
www.cantorrelief.org

Put simply, we help children in places other charities just don’t go. We rebuild education systems and ensure that all children, whoever or wherever they were born, receive the loving care they need to realise the best in themselves.

For more information, please visit:
www.childrenincrisis.org

The Henrik Lundqvist Foundation, through its fundraising efforts and community outreach, strives to create positive change in the lives of children and adults throughout the world through education and health services.

For more information, please visit: http://www.hlundqvistfoundation.com/?r=l

The Felix Organization provides inspiring opportunities and new experiences to enrich the lives of children who are growing in the foster care system.

For more information, please visit:
www.thefelixorganization.org

The Garden of Dreams Foundation is a non-profit organization that works with The Madison Square Garden Company to positively impact the lives of children facing obstacles.

For more information, please visit:
www.gardenofdreamsfoundation.org

St. Mary’s Healthcare System for Children is committed to improving the health and quality of life for children and families with special needs. We are New York’s largest and most experienced provider of long-term care to children with medically complex conditions and New York City’s only post-acute care facility for children.  At St. Mary’s, we aim to give our kids and their families more than they have dreamed possible.

St. Mary’s a national leader in intensive rehabilitation, specialized care, and education for children with special needs and life-limiting conditions.  St. Mary’s is the largest post-acute care provider of its kind in New York State, with a continuum of care that supports the child throughout his lifetime from inpatient facility to home and community settings.  With a highly trained pediatric workforce, St. Mary’s is committed to improving the health and quality of life for children with special needs and their families.  Given the increasing number of children now surviving once-life ending illnesses and injuries, St. Mary’s family-centered model of care and commitment to caring for children in the least restrictive environment, has long proven to contain costs while helping children and adolescents with special needs heal and thrive.

For more information, visit www.stmaryskids.org

Solving Kids’ Cancer is not just our name, it’s our mission. We focus on aggressive childhood cancers with low survival rates—because Every Kid Deserves to Grow Up. Solving Kids’ Cancer helps accelerate new, next-generation treatments, including immunotherapy, cancer vaccines, and new drugs by applying an understanding of the entire childhood cancer research landscape to wisely invest in innovative projects.

For more information, please visit:
www.solvingkidscancer.org

The Mission of YCS is to partner with at-risk & special needs children and young adults to build happier, healthier, more lives within families and communities.

For more information, please visit:
www.ycs.org