Amounts Raised and Distributed by Charities Collecting Money for September 11 Recovery Efforts

$122.7-million for immediate disaster relief, including food and counseling for victims and their families, as well as for rescue and recovery workers.$81-million to cover the immediate cash needs of families that lost at least one wage earner in the attacks. $14-million toward direct support costs.

To provide general relief related to the attack on the World Trade Center (Aid for Terrorist Attack Victims). The Heroes’ Fund has distributed $4.5-million, to support immediate family members of the New York firefighters, police officers, emergency-medical workers, and employees of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who died in the attacks.

To help victims and their families, recovery workers, and others affected by the tragedy with crisis and grief counseling, emergency financial assistance, emergency day care, and job training and placement services.

To help victims and their families pay for housing, utilities, food, transportation, insurance, employment, and other needs.

To provide training for trauma counselors, grants for widows and orphans of firefighters and police officers who were killed as a result of the attacks, and assistance to people who lost family members in the events of September 11 or became unemployed.

To help pay for the postsecondary education of the children and spouses of those killed or severely injured in the September 11 attacks. The fund plans to begin distributing money in January.

To help families of victims pay for travel and hotels to attend memorial and burial services, as well as to finance rent and loan repayments.

To provide financial help for victims and their families whose needs are not met by the other funds.

To support organizations in New York and Washington that are working directly with victims of the attacks and their families. Distributions currently have been made to people affected by the attacks who are living in the Washington area.

To help children whose lives were hurt by the attacks by covering short-term expenses such as day care and groceries, as well as long term expenses such as college tuition. 40 families in New York have received $1,500 each to help with immediate expenses. Windows of Hope Relief Fund received $30,000 to assist the 72 employees of the World Trade Center Club and Windows on the World restaurant, located at the top of the World Trade Center, who died in the attacks.

$20,000 was spent on supplies for relief workers in New York, and $10,000 for workers in Washington. $38,000 was spent to purchase five trailers that will be placed on-site to be used as a place for workers to warm up and rest.The remainder will support the efforts of Lions Clubs in New York, Washington, and other affected cities to assist the victims and their families, as well as relief workers, in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

$20.6-million cash assistance to victims and families; $8.9-million to allow organizations to provide other services to victims and families (grief counseling, job retraining, etc.); $2-million for services to affected community organizations; $8.9-million in loans to affected community organizations; $1.8-million cash reimbursement to organzations (ambulance corps, etc.) that were involved in rescue and recovery efforts.

To provide monetary awards and college scholarships for the families of the victims and emergency personnel who died in the attacks or were adversely affected by the events of September 11.

Has awarded grants of up to $20,000 apiece to 42 nonprofit groups to provide immediate assistance to working poor people who were affected by the attacks, to promote tolerance, civil liberties, and human rights, and to provide “alternative media voices to effectively frame the complex political, social, and economic history of this painful crisis.”

To help the recovery of workers and their families who were affected by the terrorist attacks.

To provide cash assistance to victims and families.

To reimburse local charities supported by Jewish federations for payments made to victims of the attacks and their families to cover mortgage, bereavement travel, counseling, and other expenses.

$30,000 has been granted to the Visiting Nurse Service of New York City, to help people who do not have medical insurance pay for the treatment of respiratory illnesses resulting from the attacks.$17,000 has been used to support Operation Return Home, a program to inform residents about proper cleanup of dust and debris from their homes and businesses, and to distribute air purifiers and vacuums to buildings affected by the disaster. $15,000 has enabled an environmental-health consultant assist the American Lung Association of New York work with issues affecting the public.

To provide rescue assistance, medical treatment, and new or temporary homes for pets whose owners are missing or known dead as a result of the September 11 attacks.

To assist farmers who sustained losses after the attacks on the World Trade Center that were not covered by insurance. Distributions will also be made to help farmers who lost revenue at other markets in Manhattan that were closed following the attacks.

To provide financial assistance, such as mortgage payments, and transportation aid to families of firefighters who died in the Wold Trade Center rescue efforts. A total of $323,703.56 was distributed to each of the 347 families.

To pay for the educational needs of the children of firefighters, rescue workers, and medical personnel who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center.

Distributed $48.7-million to families of members of the New York City Fire Department and its Emergency Medical Services Command, the New York City Police Department, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and other government offices who were injured or killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center. If resources permit, the families of other people who were injured or killed on September 11 may also be included as beneficiaries.

To help meet the financial, physical, and psychological needs of police personnel and their families, as well as the emergency needs of the New York City Police Department.

To aid families and dependents of victims of the September 11 attacks, including the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the plane crash in Pennsylvania.

To support injured police officers and the families of officers who died in the attacks. A total of $1-million has been distributed to the Port Authority.

To assist the families of the Port Authority Police Officers who were killed and injured during the World Trade Center attacks.

To support low-income victims of the September 11 attacks and their families.

The fund has distributed $400,000 toward travel, funeral, educational, mortgage, and general living expenses for soldiers who were injured in the attack on the Pentagon, as well as the families of those who died.

To provide financial aid for the college education of dependent children and spouses of Navy personnel killed during the attack on the Pentagon.