The Vegas Strong Fund has raised $27-million dollars for the Forever One Memorial. This announcement comes just a couple days after Tennille Pereira was named the new executive director of the organization.
The memorial will honor the lives impacted by the Route 91 Harvest Festival tragedy on Oct. 1, 2017. It will be located on the festival's former grounds, spanning 2 acres of the Las Vegas Strip.
The nonprofit Vegas Strong Fund (VSF), created to provide relief and support, has played a critical role in fundraising for the monument.
They have raised nearly 80% of the project’s $34-million dollar budget. Clark County, Live Nation Entertainment, MGMResorts International and others have contributed donations so far.
“It is a very, very exciting milestone for us to reach. It's basically telling the impacted community that we're going to do what we promise to do, and we have the money to do so,” the organization's new executive Tennille Pereira said. She emphasizes a key goal of VSF is to open the memorial by the tragedy's tenth remembrance in 2027.
Pereira previously directed the Resiliency & Justice Center and chaired the One October Memorial Committee. Now, she’s responsible for all aspects of the memorial from fundraising and construction, to community outreach.
$7 million dollars are still needed to fund the Forever One Memorial, which is on track to break ground this fall.
