On March 22, 2005, CC! in Montgomery County honored 12 individuals as Champions of Character.

Part of the goal, board member Cheryl Keim told the Crawfordsville Journal Review, was to reward "people who are behind the scenes. I don’t think most of those people are on the front page everyday.” The board hopes to hold this event every year.

Award winners were: Cody Bowman, Melanie Daughtery, Bailey Deacon, Kandie Dopkowski, Makinze Gaines, Ahtziri Jiminez-Toledano, Matthew Musselman, Bethany Hendricks, Curtis McVay, Ethel Sayler, Mildred Thompson and Jamie Welliever.