Lucas James Talent Partners, Partners with the Treasure Chest

The employees of the Wheaton-based Lucas James Talent Partners recently helped children and teens fighting cancer by sponsoring a creative toy drive to benefit the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation (POTCF). The employees created an Amazon wish list. More than 100 toys, gifts and gift cards were donated.

Lucas James Talent Partners provides On-Demand Recruiting Solutions. Lucas James Philanthropy Team Member Brandon Murphy said, “The Treasure Chest Foundation is a wonderful cause. These kids go through enough. It is nice to help.”

POTCF Founder and CEO Colleen Kisel is especially grateful to the Lucas James Talent Partners for their creative toy drive. “Thanks to the overwhelming success of their event the holidays will be happier for the brave children and teens who benefit from our services across the nation,” said an appreciative Ms. Kisel.

The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 14,800 young cancer patients in 63 cancer treatment centers in 21 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 28th anniversary of remission from the disease in March of this year.

If you would like further information about the Treasure Chest Foundation, please contact Colleen Kisel at 1-708-687-TOYS (8697) or visit the Foundation’s website at www.treasurechest.org.