The Cuskey Foundation 4 the Kids, Inc. will hold camps for disadvantaged youth. At these camps we will offer arts and crafts and fun athletic activities at no cost to the youths.

Our Mission

Our mission is to make a positive difference in the lives of children through "funtastic" youth camps. These camps will be run by a caring staff of adults, whose primary goal is to supervise the children and assist them in fun, safe exercise and enjoyable sports related activities. Our objective is to bring about positive feelings of joy and acceptance through teamwork, which hopefully the children will carry on with themselves as they grow into successful, productive, confident, competent and caring members of society.

About TCF4TK

The Cuskey Foundation 4 the Kids, Inc. will begin by providing assistance to pediatric cancer centers. We will raise funds that will be distributed to pediatric cancer centers or hospitals. These organizations will be 501(c) (3) approved organizations. Our organization will review the organizations providing pediatric cancer care and choose the organization we feel best deserves funding. When choosing these organizations we will look at quality of care, innovative treatments, history, and financial status.

Our organization will also directly interact with disadvantaged youth through camps held in the summer that are primarily athletic and arts and crafts. The camps will have arts and crafts, fun athletic activities, and there will be meals which should be provided. It is our hope that through these camps the youth will be able to interact and bond with each other and hopefully develop skills that will help them develop into well rounded adults. The Cuskey Foundation 4 the Kids, Inc. will seek out area celebrities who would come out to the camp to sign autographs for the kids and work with them to make the youth feel good about themselves.

About Jack Cuskey

Hello,

My name is Jack Cuskey and I want to give you a little background information on me... who I am, what I want to do, why I want to do it and whom I want to do it for!!! I had a lot of disabilities and challenges to overcome as a child and disadvantaged youth. I had dyslexia, learning disabilities, a speech impediment, ADD/hyperactivity and eating disorders.  My whole life I've always wanted to help kids. I remember when I was thirteen and my Grammy asked me what I wanted to do when I grow up. I told her I wanted to help kids, but I didn't know in what capacity. Growing up poor, I thought that making a lot of money would be the answer to all of my problems when I grew up. It wasn’t!!! Right after I got married, my wife was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer. What a scary, shocking, mind numbingly experience. Then my Mom was diagnosed with breast cancer at the same time. Someone asked me if I thought it was strange that my Mom and my wife both got cancer at the same time. I thought it was strange and a whole lot of other adjectives as well.  My wife needed two surgeries and two treatments of radioactive iodine and my Mom needed one surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy. They both recovered and have been clean for over five years.

In 2004, I had a dream in which God told me to "give back". I had been doing very well at work and my family members were all healthy, so I decided to give back to the Community College I attended from 1985 to 1989, Delaware County Community College (DCCC). I graduated from DCCC with an Associates Degree in Liberal Arts. I was a starter on the State Championship Basketball Team in 1986 and had taken several theatre and performing arts classes which I really enjoyed!  In December 2004, I hosted a luncheon for a few friends, family members, work associates and former teachers from DCCC who I wanted to recognize and thank for helping me. A year after I made the donation to DCCC, they called me and told me they were naming a theatre after me. I was honored, shocked, and really humbled. I only agreed to it after they told me they would put my wife’s name and three daughters’ names on the plaque too. If you Google me ("jack cuskey dccc"), the articles will come up about me donating money and having the theatre named after my family. 

I'm writing this because I want you to know that I have a more than a twenty-five year history of giving back to the community and helping children… beginning with teaching small children how to play basketball while attending Lower Merion High School and being a member of the Ardmore Rotary Club on Saturdays from October 1982 thru April 1984. I also volunteered at a summer recreation camp at South Ardmore Park and taught kids arts and crafts in the summers of 1982, 83, 84 and 1985. I coached (and played) basketball in the Narberth Summer League in 1983, 84, and 85 and even won the "most colorful coach" award in 1985.

After I graduated from DCCC in 1989, I enrolled at Spring Garden College and graduated from there in 1991.  I got my first real job in 1994, and started donating time and money from then on till now.  Some of the organizations I've given time and support to are St. Denis Catholic School, Royer Graves School for the Blind, the Devereaux Foundation (a school and residential home that helps everyone from bi-polar to mental retardation to ADD/ADHD, etc.), Stages of Imagination (a nonprofit children's theatre group), the Red Cross and the Salvation Army.

Thank you,
Sincerely and Respectfully,
Jack Cuskey