A Saturday With Friends, for the Kids at Christ’s Haven

The day exists for the kids. Christ’s Haven for Children is a privately funded nonprofit in the north Fort Worth and Keller area that has cared for displaced children, teens, and young adults since 1954. Youth live in a neighborhood of homes with houseparents, built around normalcy, dignity, and hope. That work is daily. It does not pause when a fundraiser ends.

A sporting clays Saturday is a practical way to gather a large group around that work. Two hundred friends on the course walk stations, compete a little, and put hours and donations toward an organization that still has to house children on Monday. Aligned Technology Partners first announced its support of this year’s event in July, when the company signed on as title sponsor of the 3rd Annual Christ’s Haven Clay Shoot. This was the company’s second sponsorship of the event.

Title sponsor means the name is on the day, and it should also mean people from the company are actually there. ATP treated it that way. Team members brought family. They played. They spent the day with the 200-plus friends who had already decided the cause was worth a Saturday. One of ATP’s groups placed third. That is a clean result and it is worth recording. It is not the measure of the day. The better line is that employees and their families stood on the same stations as everyone else who came to give something to Christ’s Haven.

ATP is a Dallas-Fort Worth managed IT and cybersecurity company based in Roanoke, with cloud solutions part of the same practice. Most weeks, the company is in the business of keeping other organizations running. A title sponsorship at a children’s home fundraiser is a different kind of work, and a clearer one. Kids need a roof and adults who stay. A local company can either help with that or stay home. ATP showed up.