Kids Working Wonders Foundation

Kids Working Wonders Foundation

We are pleased to introduce you to the Kids Working Wonders Foundation (KWWF). KWWF is dedicated to helping develop young leaders in the nation's schools to inspire, engage, and direct their peer students and other community leaders in fund-raising and other service experiences that will enhance the health care efforts of designated local area children's hospitals. Our Foundation's primary focus is to bring to the nation's children's hospitals, and the local communities that serve them, the Kids Working Wonders SM program based on the highly successful youth helping youth program developed and administered during the past two decades under the direction of Myron Child, one of the Foundation's founding board members and a board member of Portland, Oregon's Doernbecher Children's Hospital Foundation.


KWWF’s alliance with targeted local community children's hospital foundations nationwide provides all the resources these foundations need to help them implement the Kids Working Wonders SM program in their respective communities. The catalyst for this program is a powerful youth leadership-building process that is time-tested and proven to be successful year after year. Following the model guidelines of the youth helping youth program founded by Myron Child, youth from the nation's elementary, intermediate, and secondary schools are trained by designated local children’s hospital foundations to be effective young leaders who inspire, engage, and direct their peers and others in their respective communities to support the health care efforts of those local children's hospitals through fund-raising and other service experiences. The quality of health care in the hospitals (and therefore the quality of health of the children), the quality of youth leadership in the schools, and the quality of community commitment to meaningful service are all beneficial targets of the Foundation's mission.


The tangible results of these efforts are immediate, long-lasting, and sustainable. Many youth who have been engaged as leaders and participants in the local Kids Working Wonders SM process have subsequently emerged into the local community and in far-flung places as strident leaders both within and outside the medical profession. Involvement in this type of community service is a life-changing experience for these young people. The leverage of its power to engage peer and future generations in needed leadership and meaningful humanitarian service efforts is immeasurable.

We invite you to take a closer look at the Kids Working Wonders SM program and learn how you can become a part of the Kids Working Wonders Foundation quest to inspire youth to acquire leadership skills, to gain a sense of community involvement, and to witness the power of service to others.

You will find below biographical information about the directors and management of Kids Working Wonders Foundation. Each of them is a seasoned, successful business leader with a wealth of knowledge and experience in business administration, human resources management, and charitable service involvement and direction. Please contact us at the following street address, personal telephones, and Email addresses. Our website is currently under construction. Thank you.

Kids Working Wonders Foundation
14845 SW Murray Scholls Drive, Suite 110-524
Beaverton, Oregon 97007
866-698-7840

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Myron Child - Director / Chairman –
Myron Child recently retired from a successful and rewarding financial services career as the Vice-president of operations of the well-known and highly-respected Columbia Management Company, which at that time was the Northwest’s largest independent investment company. Myron received his Accounting and Business Management education at Weber State University.

A long-term member of the Board of Directors of the Doernbecher Children’s Hospital Foundation, Myron has served as Chair of many of that Board’s committees, including continuing Chair of its Kids Making Miracles SM Program Committee since the 1992 inception of the Kids Making Miracles SM Program under his guidance and leadership.

It was Myron’s inspiration, vision, and drive that ignited the Kids Making Miracles SM Program and has brought it to the present success that it now enjoys as a thriving institutional source of funding and community support for the Hospital’s mission. His continuing leadership in those efforts has contributed significantly to the raising of millions of dollars to fulfill his vision of what a children's hospital can become when it embraces a program such as Kids Working Wonders SM. That vision was inspired by personal experiences involving the challenging, but successful treatment of the serious illness of his youngest, then sixteen year-old, daughter while a patient at Doernbecher. She is one of Doernbecher’s miracles.

Myron has always been involved with the local community, including his services as a Director of the Portland Rose Festival, serving as Chair of both the Junior and Senior Courts, and for 3 years as Chair of the nationally covered Grand Floral Parade. In his spare time his hobbies include golf and horse-back riding, and he is a fan of every sport.

Telephone (503) 245-5745
Email myronchild@msn.com

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Allen Oyler - Director / President –
Allen has over 30 years of experience as a business executive in Fortune 500, manufacturing, health care, financial and high technology companies. Allen has led successful organizations as a Vice President & General Manager and as President & CEO his own company.

Allen received his B.S. in Psychology from Brigham Young University, a M.S. in Management (emphasizing Human Resource Management) from the University of Utah, and a Juris Doctor in Law from Lewis & Clark Law School.

Allen is active in both professional and community organizations. He is a member of the Unlawful Practice of Law Committee of the Oregon State Bar Association. He sits on the subcommittee of Health Resources Commission of the Oregon State’s Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research.

Telephone (503) 680-7444
Email allen@onsite-hr.com


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John Chambers CPA - Director / Secretary - CFO
John Chambers recently completed a twelve-year period of service as the third Managing Partner of Isler Northwest LLC, one of Oregon’s largest independently-owned local firms of Certified Public Accountant and Business Advisors, which he joined in 1971. John received his Accounting degree that year from Brigham Young University. He continues to serve the firm’s clients in a senior partnership role with his expertise as an advisor in tax and business planning and at the same time continues as a member of the firm’s management team.


John is also a nationally recognized leader in the area of practice continuation planning and advisor to accounting firms throughout North America. His experience in practice continuation planning has resulted in several articles appearing in national publications including The Practical Accountant and The Practicing CPA . He is also a well-known speaker and a writer for many of Oregon's business publications and has appeared as a featured business newsmaker and special guest on local and network television programs.

John has served in a variety of professional, civic, and church organizations including the Doernbecher Children's Hospital Foundation’s Capital Campaign Committee and the National Coalition for the Protection of Children and Families. He presently serves as an active Director of The Commerce Bank of Oregon, a Portland-based commercial banking subsidiary of Zions Bancorporation. He is also an avid musician, hiker, kayak paddler, backpacker, snowboarder, and alpine climber. John and his wife Kathy have five children and a growing posterity of grandchildren.

Telephone (503) 224-5321
Mobil Phone (503) 860-4545
Email jchambers@isler.com
john.tokoni.com