Orland Park Man Delivers Smiles of Joy to Children with Cancer

Jim Morgan of Orland Park believes in supporting children and teens fighting cancer. For the past three years, Jim has delivered 100’s of pounds of toys to Edward Hospital in Naperville, Central Du Page Hospital and Central Du Page Diagnostic Imaging in Winfield to benefit the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation.

Jim Morgan, a self-employed telecommunications entrepreneur knocked on the door of the Treasure Chest Foundation in 2016 in hopes of selling telecommunications products, instead Jim left the Treasure Chest Foundation with a monthly toy delivery schedule to any of the local children’s cancer treatment centers. Jim said, “The people at the Treasure Chest Foundation are very nice and they are getting toys to sick kids. That is God’s love.”

Treasure Chest Foundation CEO and Founder Colleen Kisel said, “This is an enormous donation as the cost of shipping has skyrocketed over the years. Jim Morgan has saved the Treasure Chest Foundation thousands of dollars on the cost of shipping for the past three years.”

The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 13,300 young cancer patients enduring 20,000 clinic visits each month in 19 states across the nation. 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 26th anniversary of remission from the disease in March.

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