Posted Friday, May 15, 2020 9:00 am

Anthea Blair was the winner of the Family Fundraiser on Facebook Live sponsored by Habitat for Humanity of Cleveland, Easy Auto and Mix 104.1. 

The family fundraiser was a friendly competition among five future Habitat homeowners to see who could raise the most money for Habitat for Cleveland. The fundraiser ran from December to March, according to Tammy Johnson, executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Cleveland.

The family who raised the most money received a car, donated from East Auto of Cleveland.

“Keeping with the model of Habitat being a hand up, not a handout, we came up with the idea of having families partner in a fundraiser,” said Johnson.

Collectively, the five families raised more than $15,000.

Ben Chandler, president of Easy Auto, noted, “This is a wonderful piece of news in the middle of a stressful time for folks. We’re happy to be involved and can’t wait for future projects with Habitat.”

Johnson and Chandler surprised Blair and her three teen children with the news she had won on April 17.

“This means the world to me,” said Anthea. “This is going to help us out so much. It’s been really difficult having only one vehicle and I never could have afforded to get my kids a vehicle right now.”