World Trade Center Memorial Foundation

By Matthew Schuerman 12/18/07 9:49pm

W.T.C. Memorial Opening Pushed Back

The Associated Press is reporting that the opening of the World Trade Center memorial (now officially known as the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum) has been pushed back two years until Sept. 11, 2011.

By Matthew Schuerman 3/05/07 12:00am

Bloomberg Hits Up Real-Estate Bigs For WTC Memorial—$5 M. Apiece!

It was probably one of the few bad times during the Bloomberg administration to be a developer. One morning in early February, about a dozen of New York’s finest and wealthiest real-estate leaders convened to eat breakfast and hear why they should contribute to the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation.

The place was Gracie Mansion. Read More

By Staff 12/13/06 4:33pm

Ground Zero Fundraising Reaches $202 Million

In the two months since Mayor Bloomberg became chairman, the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation has raised $57 million–though, before giving him too much credit, remember that a national advertising campaign got under way in July, which may have helped.

- Matthew Schuerman

By Staff 10/31/06 12:01pm

Bloomberg Okays Memorial Foundation Head

Joseph Daniels, the acting president of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, is now the actual president.

-Matthew Schuerman

By Staff 8/15/06 5:09pm

(Ground) Breaking: The Memorial Begins…

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It’s been a few years.

But on Thursday morning, The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation and the NY/NJ Port Authority will begin construction work on the Museum and Memorial’s footings.

If you happen to have NYPD press credentials, head down at 10:15.

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By Staff 7/06/06 3:48pm

A Different Way of Asking

After numerous setbacks and disappointing fund-raising efforts, the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation kicked off a nationwide advertising campaign aimed, according to the mayor, at the “working people and well-to-do.”

The ads play off of the spontaneous memorials which appeared in the days after Sept. 11th, — monuments of American flags, candles, baseball caps Read More

By Staff 7/06/06 2:15pm

It’s Time, All Right

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The national fundraising ad campaign for the World Trade Center Memorial launched today makes no bones about how long it has taken to get this thing off the ground (or in the ground, actually). The theme is “It’s time,” and, since two themes Read More

By Staff 6/01/06 4:00pm

Pataki Pushes Memorial Infrastructure Costs Off of Foundation

Gov. Pataki, after meeting with the executive committee of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, tried to relieve pressure on fundraisers there at a Q&A with reporters at the John Zuccotti park opening this morning. The immediate goal: scale back the cost of the memorial and museum to less than half a billion, and Read More

By Staff 5/26/06 5:42pm

Gretchen Says Goodbye

It’s an old trick of the trade to release bad news late on a Friday.

How about awkward and embarrassing news like the resignation of someone who had been publicly upbraided by her patrons?

That would be Gretchen Dykstra, who announced her departure from the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation just now, after Read More

By Staff 11:53am

The Tight-Fisted Foundation

Tom Topousis examines the awkwardness of Gretchen Dykstra’s national non-fundraising tour for the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation. In Hartford, Ron Nobli, a labor union official, tells him, “We would have dug into our own pockets right now” — except Dykstra wasn’t asking.

The No. 1 saying in philanthropic circles is that the Read More

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W.T.C. Memorial Opening Pushed Back

Bloomberg Hits Up Real-Estate Bigs For WTC Memorial—$5 M. Apiece!

Ground Zero Fundraising Reaches $202 Million

Bloomberg Okays Memorial Foundation Head

(Ground) Breaking: The Memorial Begins…

A Different Way of Asking

It’s Time, All Right

Pataki Pushes Memorial Infrastructure Costs Off of Foundation

Gretchen Says Goodbye

The Tight-Fisted Foundation

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