Federal Signal Corporation Donates to Teens with Cancer

When it comes to creating and hosting innovative fundraisers, Federal Signal Corporation in University Park sweetens the deal. Federal Signal Corporation recently designed a local company-wide “Cookie Walk” Fundraiser

at the firm’s University Park location.

The innovative event was designed to raise money for the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation (POTCF), an Orland Park-based, non-profit organization that provides comfort and distraction from painful treatments to children and teens diagnosed with cancer by providing a toy or gift card.

Federal Signal Corporation is a driving force for public safety products and systems essential to first responders and work truck applications. For more than a half century the firm has provided the innovation for the latest technological breakthroughs in audible and visual signaling and digital in-car video. Federal Signal is known for its ability to combine new technology with years of industry experience and takes pride in providing solutions that keep drivers safe on the road.

Federal Signal Corporation employees were asked to bring in donations of cookies that were ultimately sold to employees for $4 a pound. After the last tasty morsel was sold the event raised $250 and purchased gift cards for the teens served by Treasure Chest Foundation.

Federal Signal Corporation Quality Coordinator Laurie Ziada said, “We are a giving company. This gift is proof of the overabundance of kindness and support among the employees.”

POTCF Founder and CEO Colleen Kisel is especially grateful to Federal Signal Corporation for finding a new and unique way to raise funds for children and teens fighting cancer. “Thanks to the success of their creative Cookie Walk” spring will be brighter and happier for the brave young teens who benefit from our services,” said an appreciative Ms. Kisel.

The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 16,100 young cancer patients in 66 cancer treatment centers in 21 states across the nation and in the District of Columbia. Nowhere else in the nation does such a program exist. Colleen Kisel founded the organization in 1996 after her then seven-year-old son Martin had been diagnosed with leukemia in 1993. Ms. Kisel discovered that giving her son a toy after each procedure provided a calming distraction from his pain, noting that when children are diagnosed with cancer their world soon becomes filled with doctors, nurses, chemotherapy drugs, surgeries and seemingly endless painful procedures. Martin celebrated his 29th anniversary of remission from the disease in March of 2022.

If you would like further information about the Treasure Chest Foundation, please contact Colleen Kisel at 1-708-687-TOYS (8697) or visit the Foundation’s website at www.treasurechest.org.