{"id":311088,"date":"2026-10-21T05:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311088\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T05:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:36:07","slug":"mcdonald-foundation-donates-5000-to-nrci-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311088\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald Foundation donates $5,000 to NRCI \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The McDonald Foundation presented the Northeast Regional Cancer Institute with a $5,000 donation to support the institute\u2019s Community-Based Cancer Screening Navigation Program. Nevin Gerber, a representative of the McDonald Foundation and Spirit of Hope ambassador; Leo Vergnetti, chairman of the Spirit of Hope Board of Ambassadors; and 2026 Spirit of Hope Tribute to Courage honoree Thomas J. Munley presented the check. The Spirit of Hope Board of Ambassadors is a group of community volunteers that hosts an annual celebration in November at Mohegan Pennsylvania. Proceeds from the event benefit the NRCI\u2019s screening program, which helps low-income and un\/underinsured people get their recommended colorectal, breast, cervical and lung cancer screenings. From left: Vergnetti, Munley, NRCI President Karen M. Saunders and Gerber. For information about the Spirit of Hope Celebration, visit spiritofhopecelebration.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The McDonald Foundation presented the Northeast Regional Cancer Institute with a $5,000 donation to support the institute\u2019s Community-Based&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[524,201,182,803,28,727,178,180,179,289],"class_list":["post-311088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-community","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-photos-and-videos","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}