Treasure Chest Foundation Receives Quality Toys from Quality Logo

The employees at Quality Logo Products along with local businesses in Aurora, IL are giving to children and teens fighting cancer.

When Bret Bonnet, President of Quality Logo Products learned about the Treasure Chest Foundation during the Daily Herald Business Ledger’s Annual Awards for Business Excellence, he knew there had to be something Quality Logo Products could do to help in a meaningful way.

Quality Logo Products encouraged local businesses to collect toys in a treasure chest box provided by Quality Logo Products. When the last treasure chest was collected more than $1000 in toys were donated to benefit the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation (POTCF).

Quality Logo Products is a promotional products company located in Aurora, Illinois. The business started as a two-person operation in 2003 has since grown to a nearly $50 million business with two locations and over 115 employees.

“Cancer is indiscriminate, said Bret Bonnet, President of Quality Logo Products. If my wife and I were to find ourselves in the same position these families do, with our child battling cancer, I sure as hell hope someone would go out of their way to bring some hope or happiness to our son or daughter’s day. Colleen and her team are doing just that. Quality Logo Products and the surrounding Aurora, IL community were happy to help. We all need to do more to help our friends, neighbors, and families in need.”

Ms. Kisel, Founder of the Treasure Chest Foundation added, “The Treasure Chest Foundation is especially grateful to Quality Logo Products for spearheading such an enormous toy drive and for the generous businesses that participated in the Quality Logo Products September Childhood Cancer Awareness toy drive. We are blessed to have their support.”

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 25th 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.