Tourism Cares Donates $20,000 to National 9/11 Memorial & Museum

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Tourism Cares Donates $20,000 to National 9/11 Memorial & Museum

Canton, MA-September 15, 2010-Tourism Cares, the non-profit organization in the travel industry dedicated to preserving natural, cultural and historical sites throughout the world, brought 250 tourism industry volunteers together to honor 9/11, a day of service in remembrance, by performing much needed painting projects on the National Mall in Washington, DC.

Volunteer Day was created to honor the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act of 2009, which was enacted to expand the mission of national community service and to recognize September 11 as a national day of remembrance and service. To further pay tribute to the day, Tourism Cares awarded a $20,000 travel industry grant to the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum. The grant is part of a $161,000 pledge to fund a display case that will be used to house one of the last remaining large scale models of the World Trade Center. The model will serve as a centerpiece at the museum, being built at Ground Zero in New York City.

Tourism Cares is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity that benefits society by preserving the travel experience for future generations by giving grants to cultural, historic, and natural sites worldwide: by awarding academic, professional development, and service-learning scholarships to students of travel, tourism, and hospitality; and by
organizing volunteer restoration events at tourism-related sites in need of care and rejuvenation.

For additional information on Tourism Cares, please visit http://www.tourismcares.org/.