Orland Park Man Delivers Smiles of Joy to Kids Fighting Cancer

Jim Morgan of Orland Park believes in supporting children and teens fighting cancer. For the past four years, Jim has delivered 1000’s of pounds of toys to various Children’s Cancer Treatment Center located in the Chicagoland area 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 four years.”

The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 14,000 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 27th 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.

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Jim Morgan of Orland Park, at the Treasure Chest Foundation’s Orland Park warehouse, prepares to deliver a 202 lbs. of toys to John H. Stroger Children’s Hospital of Cook County, Rush University Children's Hospital and University of Illinois Hospital. Since the Treasure Chest Foundation has resumed shipping operations suspended by the corona virus outbreak, as of June 12th, the Treasure Chest Foundation has shipped 1,744 lbs. of toys along with $3,780 in gift cards nationwide for the children and teens served by the Foundation.