The video shows the waterfalls taking shape at the 9/11 Memorial construction site. Your votes through Members Project will help the 9/11 Memorial earn $200,000 in essential funding.

We’re asking you to help make one final push to catapult your favorite charity – the 9/11 Memorial – into first place before polls close on Nov. 21.  We need as many votes as possible to reach our goal.

Voting for the Memorial will help ensure the promise to always remember 9/11.

We’re so grateful to all of you who have voted for us every week. Thank you for recruiting family and friends to support us and spread word about this voting effort on Facebook and Twitter.

Every vote matters. Make your voice heard. Help realize this national tribute at the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan.

Here’s three easy steps to help us secure the win this week:

• Vote for the 9/11 Memorial by logging in at TakePart.com or on Facebook.

• Take it one step further, by sharing your vote on Facebook and Twitter.

• Go above and beyond, by asking your friends and family through email or by word-of-mouth to vote for the 9/11 Memorial

After you, your family and friends vote, read more about the waterfall tests in the New York Times.

By 9/11 Memorial Staff

Staff photographer Amy Dreher snaps a lot of pictures at the World Trade Center site, documenting the construction progress of the 9/11 Memorial. Amy also trains her lens on the smaller pieces that may be overlooked with a project of this magnitude. Through “The Lens: Viewing the 9/11 Memorial,” readers of The MEMO blog can share some of the unique vantage points captured by Amy.

Stony resolve: Rich Pues (L) and Anthony Rodriguez of Berardi Stone place cobblestones to create the plaza for the 9/11 Memorial. The plaza will feature more than 400 oak trees.

By 9/11 Memorial Staff

Modest-upstart-turned-global-brand Lonely Planet, which is largely controlled by BBC Worldwide, is a company committed to independent travel, trustworthy advice and editorial independence, according to the company's website.

Lonely Planet has released its visitors destination list for 2011 and placed New York City at the top of the ranking.  The reason? The opening of the 9/11 Memorial next year. 

Here's what the website said:

"Since 9/11, the site of the World Trade Center’s twin towers has stood out as a closed-off, out-of-view, painful gaping void. This year that changes, as the former WTC site finally reopens to the public with the National September 11 Memorial, a 6-acre, tree-filled plaza with 30ft-deep waterfalls at the footprint of the former towers, rimmed by the name of each victim and illuminated at night (its museum will follow in 2012). For the city, this will be more momentous than if the Yankees, Knicks, Rangers and Giants won simultaneous championships while the ball dropped in Times Square on New Year’s Eve. For all of New York, 11 September 2011 will be a defining moment."

See how other places fared on Lonely Planet's list.

By 9/11 Memorial Staff

Staff photographer Amy Dreher snaps a lot of pictures at the World Trade Center site, documenting the construction progress of the 9/11 Memorial. Amy also trains her lens on the smaller pieces that may be overlooked with a project of this magnitude. Through “The Lens: Viewing the 9/11 Memorial,” readers of The MEMO blog can share some of the unique vantage points captured by Amy.

A moveable feast: The work on the 9/11 Memorial and the World Trade Center site is often done at a frenetic pace. Instead of wasting precious time seeking out a nearby sandwich shop, restaurant or street vendor, many of the hundreds of construction workers at WTC wait for their lunch to come to them. Here you see a portable food cart wheeled around the construction site providing snacks, drinks and food for the dedicated "hard hats" clocking in each day at the WTC construction site.

By Michael Frazier, Sr. Communications Manager of the 9/11 Memorial

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com 

In case you missed it: The above video is from Fox News' "The Rise of Freedom" series that features 9/11 Memorial President Joe Daniels, who details the mission of the memorial and museum.

By 9/11 Memorial

The 9/11 Memorial is possible through the generosity of its supporters. Visit the 9/11 Memorial's Museum Shop, and find a keepsake for yourself, family members or friends. Remember that all net proceeds from the sales of these keepsakes are dedicated to building and sustaining the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

Thank you for your support and help in building this lasting tribute to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the World Trade Center terror attacks of 2001 and 1993.

By 9/11 Memorial Staff

9/11 Memorial architect Michael Arad this month will detail what inspired him to design a national tribute to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the World Trade Center terror attacks in 2001 and 1993 as part of the "9/11, Today and Tomorrow" speakers series. Arad will share early designs of the memorial in the event called "Realizing the 9/11 Memorial" at 6:30 p.m., Nov. 10., at the 9/11 Memorial Preview Site, 20 Vesey St.

RSVP now for this event and other presentations in this dynamic series. The events are free, but a $10 donation will help with ongoing programming.

Arad, a partner of Handel Architects, was working as an architect for the New York City Housing Authority when he entered and won the 9/11 Memorial design competition.

His design for the memorial, which is called "Reflecting Absence,"was picked by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation in early 2004. Two years after winning the design contest, Arad was one of six recipients of the American Institute of Architect's Young Architects Award.

The award honors architects license ten years or less and have shown "exceptional leadership and made significant contributions to the profession early in their careers."

In 2006, Arad was one of six recipients of the American Institute of Architects’ Young Architects Award. The award honors architects licensed for ten years or less "who have shown exceptional leadership and made significant contributions to the profession early in their careers."

By 9/11 Memorial Staff

Norway's Crown Prince Magnus and Crown Princess Mette-Marit at sunrise today toured the 9/11 Memorial, which features the 9/11 Memorial Museum's pavilion designed by Snoetta, a Norwegian architecture firm.

The royal couple was greeted by a group of reporters and photographers as they entered the World Trade Center site for an upclose view of the pavilion.  After the tour, the prince and princess greeted the media and took a few questions.

The couple, who were married in August 2001 in Oslo, told reporters they had traveled to New York for their honeymoon, according to a Norwegian journalist's translation. The couple added that they were in Long Island when terrorists struck WTC.

By Michael Frazier, Sr. Communications Manager for the 9/11 Memorial

At the World Trade Center site, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and 9/11 Memorial President Joe Daniels planted the 50th tree on the plaza of the 9/11 Memorial, which opens in less than a year. Tree plantings began on Aug. 28 when the first 16 trees were planted. The design for the plaza calls for more than 400 trees. By the time of the 10th anniversary, about 250 trees will be in place.

Updated: "I think this is just another step. It’s a small one, it’s a symbolic one, but it shows that the World Trade Center site is progressing, and particularly the memorial which will be done on time and on budget," Bloomberg said after the planting.

See more pictures and read more about the 50th tree planting at DNAinfo.com.

The swamp white oak trees have been growing in a New Jersey nursery since 2007. The average height of the trees is currently 30 feet. They are expected to reach heights of 80 feet.

Bloomberg and Daniels were joined in the milestone planting by First Deputy Mayor Patricia E. Harris, 9/11 Memorial architect Michael Arad, Maurice R. Greenberg, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, CV Starr & Company, Inc. and Chairman of The Starr Foundation and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Executive Director Chris Ward.

By 9/11 Memorial Staff

We all remember where we were on the morning of September 11, 2001. We watched as terrorists attacked our country, striking the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania where United Flight 93 crashed. In one morning, we felt our world change forever.

Millions of children around the world today are too young to remember. It’s up to us to teach them and future generations about the events of 9/11 and how, in the aftermath, we came together to recover and heal.

You can help the 9/11 Memorial in its mission to commemorate and educate by voting through Members Project. Your vote will help secure much needed funding to build a Museum that will be the global focal point for preserving the history of 9/11 and providing educational resources for children too young to remember 9/11 first-hand.

Watch "We Remember," a short film produced by the 9/11 Memorial interns this summer. Please help us build the 9/11 Memorial and Museum by spreading the word on Facebook and Twitter and clicking here to vote for us through Members Project.

By Joe Daniels, CEO and President of the 9/11 Memorial