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Treasure Chest Foundation Receives Business Excellence Award
Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation Founder and CEO Colleen Kisel proudly displays the prestigious Business Excellence Award.
The Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation was recently recognized as a winner of the 28th Annual Award for Business Excellence (AABEs). The AABEs are presented in recognition of business achievement, growth and community involvement. The award recipients were recognized at a reception at the Danada House in Wheaton. The recipient companies and organizations were also profiled in a special publication of the Daily Herald Business Ledger published on April 23, 2018.
The Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation was one of 26 companies and organizations in the Chicagoland area selected as 2018 honorees in seven categories. The Not-for-Profit category recognizes (501) (c) (3) charitable organizations that have a significant community impact, are good partners with business and affect numerous people.
Treasure Chest Foundation Founder and CEO Colleen Kisel was honored to receive such a prestigious award saying, “I owe this recognition to the team, a team of donors, volunteers, staff and board of directors. The Treasure Chest Foundation has one of the best teams around.”
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The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 13,000 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 25th anniversary of remission from the disease earlier this year.
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.
