Coloring for Chemo/Coloring for Comfort

10/16/2020

I hope everyone is staying happy and healthy during these tough times!!! In addition to the amazing work we're doing over here in NY with Coloring For Chemo, I also want to shed some light to Sunrise Day Camp - the world's only full summer day camp for children with cancer and their siblings, provided completely free of charge. Because no family is ever charged to come to camp, we rely solely on generous donations from the community. Please consider donating to this wonderful organization that has been helping so many children with cancer since 2006! No donation is too small. Thank you! 💛

Help support Sunrise Association today!

05/07/2020

10/05/2018

Hi everyone, my name is Olivia Vogel and I'm one of the East Coast Representatives for Coloring For Chemo! I'm currently delivering baskets full of coloring books to ten hospitals across NY/NJ, some including Memorial Sloan Kettering, New York Presbyterian, Robert Wood Johnson, and Northshore LIJ. Besides the work I do with Coloring For Chemo, I work at Sunrise Day Camp. Sunrise Day Camps are the world’s only full-summer day camps for children with cancer and their siblings, provided completely FREE of charge. Their mission is to bring the simple pleasures of childhood back to children struggling with cancer, changing months of loneliness and isolation into summers filled with sunshine, laughter and happiness. Since the kids attend camp free of charge, fundraisers play a huge role. I am participating in SunriseWALKS, the biggest fundraiser of the year, on October 14th to help raise money to pay for all of these kids to attend camp. Please consider donating to my team (or joining if you're in the NY area) to help give summer back to children with cancer. Thank you! :)

https://www.sunrise-walks.org/PearlRiver/oliviavogel

06/21/2017

Life is very bittersweet... this picture of Nina and I popped up this morning as my FB moment from June 21, 2011. It was such a wonderful morning, her and I discussing how we created Coloring for Chemo/Comfort with the host of Fox morning show.
I saw this post, this memory, as I was waiting for the Child Life therapist at UMC's Children's hospital dropping off a whole lot of coloring books, crayons and other items. She's no longer here to help us collect and make these deliveries, but I know these
"little messages" are to let me know she's still a part of what we started over 7 years ago. Thanks to Nina, so many individuals, schools, churches, businesses, family and friends, we're still delivering our coloring baskets, and creating smiles for those in pediatric units all around the Las Vegas valley...

04/18/2017

07/05/2016

Making deliveries, refilling baskets, and brightening up Pediatric and ER units across the Vegas valley.
A BIG "thank you" to all the wonderful members of the Henderson Writers Group. Because of their continuous support and generosity, we are able to deliver more coloring books, crayons and other art supplies... which creates a lot of beautiful smiles! 😊🖍🎨

04/28/2016

Congratulations to Olivia Vogel who won the "Maddy Award" yesterday evening at Fairleigh Dickinson University Madison Campus for Outstanding leadership skills in representing "Best New Organization of the year" for,
"Coloring For Chemo".
She was recognized by the student government association which awards students and teachers for the work they do and the organization they bring awareness too.
Congratulations Olivia, and THANK YOU for representing Coloring for Chemo and helping in delivering smiles to children in memory of my friend Nina, who's birthday just happened to be yesterday when you received your award... Pretty cool!!! ❤️☺️🖍

03/19/2016

Making deliveries!!! Dropped off a big basket of goodies, boxes of coloring books and crayons. We filled the cabinets in both pediatric ER and the pediatric floor unit at St. Rose today...
Always great to see Kathy, bring her lots of needed supplies and catch up with a friend.

03/12/2016

For those who find it difficult to meditate...
We always make sure when we deliver our coloring books and crayons, that we include enough for parents and siblings of the child that is hospitalized so they too may find comfort in coloring...😊🖍

02/28/2016

I am so pleased and honored to introduce Coloring For Chemo/Comfort's most valuable volunteer, Olivia Vogel!!!
Olivia has taken our little charity all the way, across the country to New Jersey & New York. Olivia has gone above and beyond to promote and to become an incredible Ambassador representing Coloring For Chemo in delivering smiles throughout the Jersey area children's hospitals.
Thank you Olivia for all that you do, you truly are an answered prayer in bringing so much love and happiness to so many lives!

02/26/2016

It's been awhile since we've posted on our page. It's definatly not because we stopped collecting and distributing coloring books, crayons and other awesome art supplies throughout the Las Vegas valley's pediatric units, it was just a little difficult to put into a post how we were still going forward without one of our founders, Nina Vanbeck Lawler. Coloring For Chemo/Comfort would not have come to be if it wasn't for Nina being diagnosed with breast cancer and undergoing long, exhausting hours of chemo.
You see, we were coloring long before "coloring was cool".
Today, for the first time in a long time, I delivered an ENORMOUS amount of swag to UMC's Children's Hospital and truly felt Nina was there with me. She had a very soft spot in her heart for the kids at UMC. It was the very first hospital that allowed 2 crazy ladies to come and color with the kids, their parents and siblings. Our "Craft Days" were EPIC! The smiles and giggles on those faces were priceless! Since Nina's passing, I've been just dropping off supplies to the awesome child life therapist and going about my day. Today was different. I saw those little faces... and when they saw me and my basket of goodies, in those beautiful little faces, were the most beautiful smiles, and in those smiles was my beautiful friend. There is not a day that goes by I don't miss my "Neen". Her spirit and beautiful grace live on in the smiles of every child we give a coloring book and a box of crayons to.
So, Coloring For Chemo is as strong as ever! Everey 6 to 8weeks we deliver over 1500 coloring books, just as many boxes of crayons and other art supplies to our local hospitals. We rely on donations from church groups, office workers, school coloring drives and anyone and everyone we can get a coloring book and a box of crayons from. Coloring For Chemo was the "Silverlining" Nina and I were blessed with while enduring her cancer journey. If you've donated to our charity, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Please help us continue carrying on her beautiful memory in putting a smile on the face of a child who is dealing with a brutal illness. Thank you, Amy

09/01/2015

Coloring For Chemo helping to spread the word that September is childhood cancer awareness month...