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ORLANDO, Fla. — The embattled onePulse Foundation, formed to help commemorate one of Central Florida’s darkest tragedies, announced Wednesday morning it is shutting down with its mission undone, writing a sad coda to the Pulse nightclub massacre but leaving — perhaps — a better ending yet to be written. Promising to build a memorial and museum for impacted families and survivors of the 2016 ...

Though its legacy may be shaded by a lack of progress on a memorial and the abandonment of the quest for a museum, the organization did start several programs aligned with its mission.

The embattled onePulse Foundation, formed to help commemorate one of Central Florida’s darkest tragedies, announced this morning it is shutting down with its mission undone, writing a sad coda to the Pulse nightclub massacre but leaving — perhaps — a better ending yet to be written. Promising to build a memorial and museum for impacted families and survivors of the 2016 terror attack that left ...

Blake Pfeil, an audio engineer who lives in Hudson Valley, New York, was strapped for cash when he donated $20 to the onePulse Foundation back in 2017. A graduate student at the time, Pfeil said he could barely afford groceries, but he still felt compelled to help build a memorial the victims of the 2016 Pulse massacre. “My donation was on the smaller side because at the time it was what I ...