Orland Park Chick-fil-A Teams Up to Help Children with Cancer

Chick-fil-A Restaurant in Orland Park hosted a “Cookies for the Kids” fundraiser throughout the month of March. For each Chocolate Chunk Cookie Chick-fil-A sold the restaurant donated 90% of the proceeds to benefit the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation (POTCF), an Orland Park-based, a non-profit organization that provides toys and gift cards to childhood cancer patients. After the last cookie was sold Chick-fil-A raised $8,013.82 for children and teens fighting cancer.

Chick-fil-A is one of the largest American fast food restaurant chains and the largest whose specialty is chicken sandwiches. Their mission is to glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to them.

Orland Park Chick-fil-A Owner and Operator Kevin Skarin said, “Having seen kids in the hospital, it is great to do something to put a smile on their faces.”

“The best way to spread joy is by doing the little things. Giving the kids served by the Treasure Chest Foundation something to look forward to is wonderful,” Director of Chick-fil-A Nikkolas Seilheimer said.

Treasure Chest Foundation CEO and Founder Colleen Kisel expressed her gratitude to Chick-fil-A for their support. “Having such a successful fundraiser is a true blessing,” said Ms. Kisel. “I am so appreciative of the unbelievable support of Chick-fil-A. Money raised from the fundraiser will help our Foundation put smiles on the faces of young cancer patients.”

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 30th anniversary of remission from the disease in March of this year.

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.