University Park's Federal Signal Corporation Helps Teens with Cancer

Federal Signal Corporation recently designed a local company-wide Gift Card Fundraiser as part of its monthly charitable giving event at the firm’s University Park location. The event was designed to raise money for the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation (POTCF), an Orland Park-based, non-profit organization that provides comfort and distraction from painful treatments to children and teens diagnosed with cancer by providing a toy, gift or gift card in 49 hospitals nationwide. The event raised $630 in gift cards for teens fighting cancer for the POTCF.

Federal Signal Corporation is a driving force for public safety products and systems essential to first responders and work truck applications. For more than a half century the firm has provided the innovation for the latest technological breakthroughs in audible and visual signaling and digital in-car video. Federal Signal is known for its ability to combine new technology with years of industry experience and takes pride in providing solutions that keep drivers safe on the road. And judging from the success of its latest event, the firm’s innovative fundraising techniques should also be recognized.

Federal Signal Corporation Print Center Manager Joyce Enright said, “We know you receive a lot of toys, we didn’t want the teens to be left out.” Federal Signal Corporation Human Resources Administrator Debbie Paulsen chimed in saying, “We collected for the Treasure Chest Foundation last year and we wanted to make a difference in the lives of teens fighting cancer.”

POTCF Founder and CEO Colleen Kisel is especially grateful to Federal Signal Corporation for raising funds for teens fighting cancer. “Thanks to the overwhelming success of their event winter will be happier for the brave teens who benefit from our services across the nation,” said an appreciative Ms. Kisel.

The not-for-profit Treasure Chest Foundation now supports more than 9,300 children and teens each month who are diagnosed with cancer by providing a toy or gift card in 49 hospitals nationwide. Nowhere else in the nation does such a program exist. CEO Colleen Kisel founded the organization in 1996 after her then seven-year-old son Martin had been diagnosed with leukemia in 1993. Colleen discovered that giving her son a toy after each procedure provided a calming distraction from his pain. Martin celebrated his 22nd anniversary of remission from the disease in 2015.

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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Federal Signal Corporation Print Center Manager Joyce Enright (left) and Human Resources Administrator Debbie Paulsen display $630 in donated gift cards at the Treasure Chest Foundation’s Orland Park warehouse. The gift cards will help the Treasure Chest Foundation make a difference for brave teenage cancer patients nationwide.