Archive for March 2023

For the second year in a row, the Mountain View Girls’ Basketball Team hosted a fundraiser for the Cancer Institute. In January, the team did a Cotton Candy and Sno Cones sale, sold 50/50, a memory board and tickets for raffle baskets. Dawn Neri is the organizer of this fundraiser and her daughter is a…

We would like to welcome our new Board Members, Maria Montoro Edwards, PhD and Samuel M. Lesko, M.D., M.P.H. Maria Montoro Edwards, PhD serves as President and CEO of Maternal and Family Health Services (MFHS), a non-profit health and human service organization working to improve the health of Pennsylvania women and children in 17 counties by offering…

Through a relationship with a former intern at the University of Scranton, the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Higher Education Network, chose NRCI as their benefitting organization for the school year. Students held a donut sale on campus in early December before finals week and raised $300 to support us. Additionally, on March 30…

2023 marks the 20th Anniversary of CASUAL Day, NRCI’s biggest educational and awareness campaign each year focused on the early detection and screening for colorectal cancer. In 2004, siblings Mike Moran and Maura Staback presented the idea of CASUAL Day to NRCI to honor their mother, Helen Phillips, who died from colon cancer. We are…