7:30am - Wreath-laying ceremony at the 9/11 Contemplative Garden at the Boston Public Garden. The public is welcome to attend.

9/11 Contemplative Garden  |  Boston Public Garden  |  69 Beacon Street  |  Boston, MA 02108  

8:30am - Flag Lowering, Moment of Silence and Reading of Names on the Massachusetts State House lawn. (In the event of rain, names will be read during the latter part of the program inside the State House.) The public is welcome to attend.

Massachusetts State House  |  Beacon and Park Streets  |  Boston, MA  

9:30am - Commemoration Observation & Madeline Amy Sweeney Award for Civilian Bravery Presentation in Memorial Hall at the Massachusetts State House. (By invitation only)

11:00am - Reception at the Ritz-Carlton - Boston Common. (By invitation only)

Ritz-Carlton - Boston Common  |  10 Avery Street  |  Boston, MA 02111

There will be a trolley provided for family members from the wreath-laying ceremony to the State House and reception. Please indicate on your reply card whether you need the trolley. Please return all reply cards by Friday, August 2, 2013. If you are a family member of a September 11th victim, live in the New England area and did not receive an invitation and reply card, please contact Alyse Mazerolle at the Massachusetts 9/11 Fund, at 617-482-2911, or email her at alyse.mazerolle@massfund.org. Family visits to the 9/11 Contemplative Garden are welcome from 7:30am until sunset.

9/11 Day of Service & Remembrance, volunteers built 400 bikes at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on Pier 86 in NYC, on September 6, 2012.

Employees from companies affected by the terrorist attacks of 9/11 will come together to remember their friends and colleagues and to celebrate the spirit of community on September 26, 2013. 

The 9/11 National Day of Service and Remembrance was established in 2009 to engage all Americans to voluntarily support charitable causes, perform good deeds or engage in other service activities in observance of the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

At the 9/11 Tribute Center Day of Service and Remembrance, 600 corporate volunteers will be building 400 bicycles. With the assistance of the USO, the bikes (and helmets) will be donated to children of active United States military families and wounded veterans. As in years past, the NYPD, FDNY and PAPD will be among the companies represented.

September 11th National Day of Service and Remembrance, Paying Tribute
On the anniversary of the September 11th attacks, Americans will unite in service in the same remarkable way that so many came together following the attacks. Service and remembrance activities will take place in all 50 states throughout the month of September, when hundreds of thousands of volunteers will paint and refurbish homes, run food drives, spruce up schools, reclaim neighborhoods, and support and honor veterans, soldiers, military families, and first responders.  

The 9/11 Tribute Center is a museum opened in 2006 by the September 11th Families' Association. Located directly across from the World Trade Center, the 9/11 Tribute Center shares the personal history and engages visitors in the authentic experiences of people directly impacted by the events of February 26, 1993 and September 11, 2001: family members of lost loved ones, survivors, first responders and people who live and work in Lower Manhattan. Join our community and share your experience at the 9/11 Memorial through the 9/11 Tribute Center volunteer program. Help others remember, understand and recover. To learn about Tribute Center programs visit tributewtc.org.

Contact   |   Nancy Gamerman  |  ngamerman@tributewtc.org   |  212.422.3520 x112 

From September 11th National Day of Service and Remembrance and MyGoodDeed:

The September 11th National Day of Service and Remembrance is the culmination of efforts originally launched in 2002 by the 9/11 nonprofit MyGoodDeed, click here for their website, started by two friends, David Paine and Jay Winuk, with wide support from the 9/11 community. This effort first established the inspiring tradition of charitable service on 9/11 as an annual tribute to the 9/11 victims, survivors, and rescue and recovery workers. What started out to be an organization called One Day's Pay, in honor of Jay's brother, Glenn Winuk, and all others who died at the World Trade Center on 9/11, was later renamed MyGoodDeed.

In the years thereafter David and Jay were joined by more than 22 other leaders in the 9/11 community to help build support for the 9/11 Day Observance. In 2009, Congress designated September 11th as a National Day of Service and Remembrance under bipartisan federal law, and charged the Corporation for National and Community Service with helping to support this effort across the country. For the anniversary, CNCS is working with MyGoodDeed and numerous other organizations to implement one of the largest days of charitable service in U.S. history.

Paying Tribute

On the anniversary of the September 11th attacks, Americans will unite in service in the same remarkable way that so many came together following the attacks.

As in years past, we anticipate service and remembrance activities in all 50 states, at which there will be opportunities for hundreds of thousands of volunteers to paint and refurbish homes, run food drives, spruce up schools, reclaim neighborhoods, and support and honor veterans, soldiers, military families, and first responders.

On the evening of September 11 at 7:00, there will be a talk at the Museum of Jewish Heritage about the relationship of Battery Park City and the World Trade Center.  The talk,  Parallel Stories: The World Trade Center and Battery Park City, will feature panelists Clifford Chanin from the National September 11 Memorial Museum, Carol Willis from The Skyscraper Museum, and Matthew Fenton, editor in chief of The Broadsheet, Battery Park's local paper.

The evening will celebrate the renewal of Battery Park City's thriving cultural landscape and will explore the neighborhood's connection to the Trade Center site.

The first buildings of Battery Park City were created using soil excavated for the building of the World Trade Center in the 1960s.  Once the buildings were up, they were intimately tied to the World Trade Center in terms of pedestrian access and commerce. When the World Trade Center was destroyed in 2001, it left Battery Park City isolated physically and created an enormous vacuum in the neighborhood's community life.  The rebuilding at the World Trade Center has already begun to revitalize downtown but it is anticipated that in the next several years the dynamic relationship between Battery Park City and the World Trade Center will be significantly transformed by the new connecting tunnel into the Winter Garden and other public amenities.

If your company or organization would like to participate in a service project with the 9/11 Tribute Center, please contactvolunteer@tributewtc.org.