In June of 2005, our lives were changed forever when our oldest child, Cal Sutter, a 12-year old South Elgin Little League All-Star, was diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia.  The battle with pediatric cancer is a horrible nightmare no child or family should ever have to experience.  Yet, like most children battling cancer, Cal never gave up hope and through it all he was always more concerned about the well-being of the other children fighting cancer than he was about himself.  Even though Cal ultimately lost his battle with leukemia in August of 2006, the courage he displayed throughout inspired us to start Cal’s All-Star Angel Foundation, Inc. – a tax exempt, 501(c)(3) pediatric cancer foundation.  Our main mission and purpose – granting wishes and providing financial assistance to kids fighting cancer and their families – continues Cal’s legacy of always caring about others above anything else.

We continue to run at 95 cents of every dollar going to the cause and since our founding in April of 2007, generous donors and supporters have enabled us to bring unbelievable amounts of hope and support to more than 150 pediatric cancer patients and their families including:

Providing family outings to Great America, the Dells, Sea World, Barnum & Bailey Circus and Cubs and Bears games, shopping sprees at Cabela’s, Best Buy, Target, Macy’s, Carson’s, JC Penney, Footlocker, Wal-Mart, Kohl’s and online at Dell while assisting families with medical, mortgage, rent, car and utility bill payments and gift cards for groceries, prescriptions and clothing.

 

Supplying countless laptops and desktop computers to keep up with homework and stay in touch with friends and family during their battles with cancer while supporting the hospitals and Ronald McDonald House with over a thousand Wii, PS2, PS3, XBOX 360 games and consoles, DVD movies, arts, crafts, games and supplies.

 

Becoming the first organization to pledge $200,000 to the Heroes for Life Community Partners Program creating healing environments for patients and families at the new Children’s Memorial Hospital slated to open in 2012. While the greatest accomplishment is that this helps build a great medical facility for children right here in our backyard, it also guarantees that both the inpatient (17th) and outpatient (18th) hematology/oncology floors will forever carry the Cal’s All-Star Angel Foundation name and puts us into a level we never thought possible back when we started in 2007.  In addition to the 17th and 18th floors themselves, we have also committed to keeping the playrooms on both floors up to date with games, electronics and other items not yet realized giving us 2 out of 23 floors at one of the most renowned medical care centers in the world!

Plus, through our other community programs and services, we have been able to:

Invest in the futures of 8 young, college-bound baseball players who are all good students and great citizens with a passion for helping others through our Scholarship Program.

 

Assist the local Little League with programs and services beyond their budget.

Please feel free to contact us anytime at (847) 960-5317 or info@calsangels.org.