Force Enterprises of Tinley Park is giving back to children and teens fighting cancer and helping the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation (POTCF) by donating printing services for 350 invitations to the Foundation’s upcoming annual fundraiser. The donated invitations will help the Orland Park-based non-profit organization, which provides toys, gifts and gift cards to children and teens diagnosed with cancer nationwide, to offset the cost of holding its Fifth Annual Treasuring Our Kids Sport-A-Palooza on April 5.
Force Enterprises Owner and President Ron Strenge said, “I donate my printing services to help the kids. I am fortunate to have healthy kids and a healthy family. It’s sad what these brave children have to go through in their fight against cancer. This is the least I can do.”
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The Foundation’s Sport-A-Palooza Fundraiser takes place on April 5 at Gaelic Park, 6119 W. 147th Street in Oak Forest. The event is the Foundation’s most important annual fundraiser and will help provide the necessary funding to aid children battling cancer throughout Chicagoland and across the nation.
Treasure Chest Foundation CEO and Founder Colleen Kisel appreciates the contributions Force Enterprises has made to the success of the Foundation’s annual fundraiser for more than a decade. “Ron’s gift of printing has made our fundraisers enticing and appealing and helped bring smiles of joy to childhood cancer patients and their families,” said a grateful Colleen
The POTCF’s unique services impact more than 9,000 young cancer patients each month in 46 hospitals across 16 states and 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. She discovered that giving her son a toy after each procedure provided a calming distraction from his pain and his new world filled with doctors, nurses, chemotherapy drugs, surgeries and seemingly endless painful procedures. Martin will celebrate his 21st anniversary of remission from the disease in early 2014.
For further information about the Treasure Chest Foundation and to learn more about the upcoming Fifth Annual Treasuring Our Kids Sport-A-Palooza Fundraiser, please contact Colleen Kisel at 708-687-TOYS (8697) or visit the Foundation’s web site at www.treasurechest.org.
