Supporters of Local Children's Home Launching Fundraising Effort

Hoping to do more for an organization that helps abused and abandoned children in South Carolina, a group of supporters has launched a fundraising campaign to help Connie Maxwell Children's Home.

"Team Up for Children" is the 2012 campaign is an effort to raise $100,000 for the agency. The campaign, which consists of a series of mini-fundraising events, is aimed at the Upstate during the next five months.

The soft part of the campaign started in November with an e-blast to potential supporters. In December, Chick-fil-A of Pelham Road and Chick-fil-a of Woodruff Road, joined by Chick-fil-a of Greenwood, and conducted a "Team up for Children” by donating $1 for every gallon of tea sold during the month.

In the next few months, the group hopes to announce a series of events that will allow the community to support Connie Maxwell.

A "thank you" concert is planned for April 26.

Children's Champions was created by Cathy Heitzenrater, director of development at Connie Maxwell Children's Home, in 2011 as a way to develop a fundraising entity in the Upstate that benefits Connie Maxwell Children's Home.

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