WHAS in Louisville says the 72nd annual Crusade for Children was one of the most successful, with the fundraising effort for children with special needs in Kentucky and southern Indiana raising $5.89 million over the weekend, beating last year’s total by more than $189,000.
Efforts in Elizabethtown raised more than $154,000, and efforts elsewhere in Hardin County raised just under $146,000. WHAS says the Crusade for Children works to “advance opportunities for all children with identified needs to reach their full potential.”
“It’s just one of the very few charities in this entire country that 100 percent of everything that you give, your gift goes to the special needs children in that community, and there’s not many charities out there like that,” said 94.3 The Wolf radio personality and longtime Crusade volunteer Bobby Jack Murphy.
Murphy said he has seen the deep roots of Crusade for Children firsthand.
“I grew up with the Crusade in Lebanon, Kentucky, when I was about six or seven years old,” Murphy said. “We used to get excited every year because the fire trucks would come down the street and the firemen would have their boots and were taking money up, and you got to see the fire trucks and the lights and everything else, and then when I went to work in Louisville at WHAS Radio, you just kind of fell into it.”
Learn more at www.whascrusade.org.
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