{"id":2887,"date":"2007-10-30T07:50:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T15:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/10\/its_not_unpatriotic_to_ask_if_this_is_even_worth_it.html"},"modified":"2007-10-30T07:50:39","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T15:50:39","slug":"its_not_unpatri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/its_not_unpatri.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not Unpatriotic To Ask If This Is Even Worth It . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because you know the (not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/billion_dollar.html\">$1 billion<\/a> but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/how_about_recon.html\">$500 million<\/a>) World Trade Center Sept. 11 memorial costs <em>way<\/em> to much money when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/65532\">the foundation funding it becomes one of the nation&#8217;s top nonprofits<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation has joined the annual honor roll of American nonprofits that received the most private support last year.<\/p>\n<p>The organization, which raised $115 million in 2006, ranked no. 158 on a list of 400 entities compiled by the Chronicle of Philanthropy. The list is published in the Chronicle&#8217;s November 1 issue.<\/p>\n<p>At the top of the list was United Way of America in Alexandria, Va., with $4.1 billion raised. No. 400 was the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., in the midst of a $200 million capital campaign, with $42 million raised.<\/p>\n<p>The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, which began operations in May 2005, in 2006 reported donations totaling $115 million. By June 1 of this year, it had raised $300 million of its $350 million goal for the building of a memorial and museum at the World Trade Center site. The fund-raising feat is impressive, as the foundation&#8217;s president quit in May 2006 after criticism for rising costs and delays. Mayor Bloomberg then stepped in as chairman of the foundation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a big deal that it raised enough money to get on the list,&#8221; the editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Stacy Palmer, said of the new entrant from New York. &#8220;They put a lot of effort into bringing in a lot of very big gifts and saying, &#8216;We need to go ahead and move forward on this.'&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By way of contrast, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/statenisland\/northern\/stgeorge\/postcards\/index.htm\">Staten Island Postcards memorial<\/a>, a very nice memorial, only cost <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statenislandarts.org\/September_11_Memorial\/rfppage.html\">$2 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because you know the (not $1 billion but $500 million) World Trade Center Sept. 11 memorial costs way to much money when the foundation funding it becomes one of the nation&#8217;s top nonprofits: The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation has joined the annual honor roll of American nonprofits that received the most private support last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-please_make_it_stop","category-tragicomic_ironic_obnoxious_or_absurd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}