The EVAN Foundation Treats & Treasures Carts Program

The Treats & Treasures Carts Program is a simple but impactful initiative that brings smiles to over 1,300 childhood cancer patients a week in the U.S. and Canada. Launched in 2012 at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC, Gavin and Wendy Lindberg visit every inpatient oncology room every Wednesday with the Treats & Treasures Carts (15,000+ visits in total).

Patients and family members get to choose from a wide selection of healthy snacks, candy, chips, toys, games, stuffed animals, blankets, books and other fun items. All at no cost to them. The Carts provide pediatric cancer patients a welcome break from treatment and a moment of control and empowerment during an incredibly challenging time. Seeing the impact in Washington, DC, The EVAN Foundation has expanded the Treats & Treasures Carts Program to 18 hospitals that care for kids with cancer.

In 2021, The EVAN Foundation partnered with Kindred Foundation to bring the Treats & Treasures Carts Program to Canadian children’s hospitals that care for children and adolescents with cancer.

Additional expansion is planned in 2024. The Treats & Treasures Carts are currently offered at:

• Children’s Hospital Colorado (Aurora, CO)

• Children’s National Hospital (4 sites in the DC/Maryland area)

• Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)

• City of Hope (Duarte, CA)

• Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital (Grand Rapids, MI)

• Jimmy Fund Clinic (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA)

• Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore, MD)

• Levine Children’s Hospital (Charlotte, NC)

• Seattle Children’s Hospital (Seattle, WA)

• Stead Family Children’s Hospital (University of Iowa)

• Texas Children’s Hospital (Houston, TX)

• BC Children’s Hospital (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)

• HSC Winnipeg Shared Health (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)

• IWK Health (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)

• Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada)

• Stollery Children’s Hospital (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)

• Great Ormond Street Hospital (London, England, United Kingdom)

If you would like to help stock the carts, we graciously accept online donations, donations by check and toys and candy for the carts. Please click “Acceptable Items” below to learn more about what we can accept or click on the Amazon Wish List button below to be redirected to Amazon.

“My son didn’t want to get his blood drawn that day. Then the nurse rolled in The Treats and Treasures Cart and my son extended his arm and said, “Let’s do this.”

“It’s such a nice thing when it shows up at the room door. You can hear the squeals from my son in the next unit!”

“This initiative is simply amazing. Brings so much joy!”