September 4, 2008
Rebuilding Shattered Lives
Charity's approach to guiding victims of Pentagon attack through recovery is viewed as model
Five days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, nonprofit leaders in Washington created a special fund to help people whose lives were devastated by American Airlines Flight No. 77's crash into the Pentagon.
It would be different from typical disaster-relief funds, they said. Instead of simply giving victims cash as most charities do after major disasters, the Survivors' Fund would hire professionally trained social workers to help them rebuild their lives financially and
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