Volunteers Needed to Build Treasure Chests for Kids with Cancer

Each opening of a new Treasure Chest Program is cause for major celebration. As the Foundation rolls into its 25th year in operation we look forward to opening our 63rd Program. We are asking for volunteers to construct new Treasure Chests for this new opening and for any future openings.

Each new Treasure Chest Program requires major planning by the staff at the Treasure Chest Foundation. From promotional letters, searching the internet for nearby stores and restaurants to choose the right gift cards to package, boxing a variety of toys, packing the van, mapping out the drive, searching for lodging and of course the construction and painting of the Treasure Chest itself.

On behalf of the children and teens whose lives you will touch, thank you in advance for helping us to complete this important project. Your gift today is very much appreciated and will help deliver joy for years to come to young patients fighting cancer nationwide.

The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 14,600 young cancer patients in 62 cancer treatment centers in 20 states across the nation and in the District of Columbia. 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 of 2020.

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 website at www.treasurechest.org.