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Special Report - Special Report - October 25, 2012
Childhood cancer organization here grows, shifts focus
Executive director knows from personal losses what affected families endure

By Jessica Valencia
Of the Journal of Business

Mary Anne Ruddis, executive director of American Childhood Cancer Organization Inland Northwest, says the nonprofit works with up to 150 families each year.
Mary Anne Ruddis, executive director of American Childhood Cancer Organization Inland Northwest, says the nonprofit works with up to 150 families each year.
—Staff photo by Jessica Valencia
When Mary Anne Ruddis lost her 9-year-old daughter to leukemia in 1994, she says she did everything she was told not to do, including moving from California to Spokane.

Five years later, when her 12-year-old son died from a brain tumor, she says there was a marked difference in the process, one that she attributes to the support she received from Candlelighters of the Inland Northwest.

"I knew the difference of going through this with a support organization and going...


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