BGC Partners Inc., a major inter-dealer broker named for B. Gerald Cantor, the founder of Cantor Fitzgerald, has selected QSAC as one of a dozen New York-based nonprofit organizations to benefit from its annual Charity Day on September 11, 2009. Since the first Charity Day in 2004, BGC has raised over $20 million, contributing their entire trading commissions for that day to more than one hundred charitable organizations throughout the world. Mark Webster, Executive Managing Director and General Manager for the Americas at BGC commented: “We are thrilled to have QSAC back for BGC’s fifth annual Charity Day. By raising the profile of autism and providing comprehensive support and services to autistic children and their families, QSAC is encouraging and making a vast difference in the lives of many.”
On Charity Day, celebrities representing the charities help raise funds by assisting professional brokers with trades of financial products to BGC's institutional clients. This year, Didi Conn, actress and comedienne, Peter X. Kelly, extraordinary chef and winner of the Iron Chef, and Mets’ Ed Kranepool, 1965 All Stars and 1969 World Champion, will serve as QSAC’s ambassadors.
According to Gary A. Maffei, Executive Director of QSAC, “to be a beneficiary of Charity Day is a tremendous opportunity for us to generate funds which could not have come at a better time given the state of today’s economy. We are grateful to BGC - being selected for the second consecutive year is both an honor and a vote of confidence for the work that QSAC does.
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