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CASUAL Day 2024
CASUAL Day 2024 will be the 21st year of this fundraising and awareness campaign. This event is in memory of Helen Philips. In February of 2002, Helen Phillips was diagnosed with colon cancer. Less than six months later, the cancer took her life. In 2003, Helen’s family and friends approached the Cancer Institute to undertake…
Read MoreCommunity Fundraising for NRCI
This year has been outstanding because of the efforts of businesses and organizations that created unique opportunities to fundraise for us. Most of these community fundraising efforts come from individuals who have had a personal connection with cancer or a philanthropic mission at their organization. In October and November, we received 10 calls and/or emails…
Read MoreSpirit of Hope Celebration
The Spirit of Hope Board of Ambassadors hosted their 11th Spirit of Hope Celebration on Friday, November 11 at Mohegan Pennsylvania. The evening featured cocktails, food stations, a silent auction, gift card guarantee and a lottery tree. In addition to that, this year’s Tribute to Courage Honoree was a longtime familiar face to NRCI and…
Read More2023 Holiday Card Spotlight
View the digital holiday card here. Each year, we look forward to sharing the talent of one community member through our digital holiday card. We feature an artist that is a cancer survivor. Thank you to Angie DeMuro for being our 2023 Holiday Card Artist. Angie was a friend of last year’s card artist, Amy…
Read MoreMountain View’s Girls’ Basketball Team Raises $2,605 for NRCI
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…
Read MoreMeet Our New Board Members
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…
Read MoreUniversity of Scranton Healthcare Executives Students Support NRCI
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…
Read MoreCelebrating the 20th Anniversary of CASUAL Day
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…
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