TEGNA Foundation Award $7,000 to Northeast Regional Cancer Institute
Julie Eisenman, General Manager of WNEP-TV and Karen M. Saunders, President of the Northeast Regional Cancer Institute.
The TEGNA Foundation awarded $7,000 to the Northeast Regional Cancer Institute. The funds will help support the Cancer Institute’s Community Based Cancer Screening Navigation Program. This program helps to provide community-based cancer screenings to individuals who are not up to date with breast, cervical, colon and lung cancer screenings. The TEGNA Foundation supports nonprofit organizations in communities served by TEGNA Inc. The Community Grant program serves to address local community needs. TEGNA Inc. is the parent company of our local ABC TV affiliate, WNEP-TV.
About the Northeast Regional Cancer InstituteThe Northeast Regional Cancer Institute is a nonprofit community-based agency serving 7 counties in northeast Pennsylvania with offices located in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. Focusing on surveillance, community and patient services, and hospital and practice support services, the Cancer Institute invests 100% of its resources locally. The mission of the Northeast Regional Cancer Institute is to ease the burden of cancer in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
About the TEGNA Foundation
The Tegna Foundation supports nonprofit organizations in communities served by Tegna, Inc. The Community Grant program serves to address local community needs. The majority of their grants target grassroots organizations in the areas of social/human services, health and mental health, benefitting the most disadvantaged people on our communities.