Celebrating our 2019 scholarship recipients
Our nonprofit was privileged to award scholarships to a dozen inspirational high school students in Marisa’s loving memory this year. Please take a moment to click on the hot links below to read the stories [...]
Marisa Tufaro Foundation helps families in need this holiday season
Thanks to your generous support, our nonprofit was blessed to provide more than $2,500 worth of ShopRite, Target and Walmart gift cards to dozens of Middlesex County families in need, helping parents purchase food, necessities [...]
Conackamack Middle School donates food from Turkey Trot to FISH in Marisa’s honor
Conackamack Middle School in Piscataway added new twists to its 28th annual Turkey Trot, which was conducted this year as a color run through an obstacle course the day before Thanksgiving on school grounds. The [...]
PRD Baseball Academy goes to bat for our nonprofit with fundraiser
PRD Baseball Academy has adopted The Marisa Tufaro Foundation as a beneficiary of its first annual Holiday Clinic and Fundraiser, from which all proceeds will be equally split between our nonprofit and academy families. The [...]
Our nonprofit joins the Port Reading Fire Department and EMS to deliver toys to children’s hospital
First responders from the Port Reading Fire Department and EMS will transport holiday cheer with two ambulances full of toys for pediatric patients on Friday afternoon. The presents, which were collected as part of the department’s first [...]
Family of inspirational boy born with severe cardiac defect pays forward the kindness of others, collecting hundreds of toys for donation to pediatric patients GalleryFamily of inspirational boy born with severe cardiac defect pays forward the kindness of others, collecting hundreds of toys for donation to pediatric patients
Family of inspirational boy born with severe cardiac defect pays forward the kindness of others, collecting hundreds of toys for donation to pediatric patients
In the true spirit of holiday giving, the family of Michael Grzankowski, a 5-year-old from Laurence Harbor who has already undergone three open-heart surgeries to repair a severe cardiac defect, wanted to pay forward the [...]
Saint Joseph varsity football team to battle intramural flag football squad from the high school in Marisa Tufaro Bowl
Members of the Saint Joseph varsity gridiron team will battle a squad from the high school’s intramural flag football league in the Marisa Tufaro Bowl, which kicks off at The Brenner Family Field on Friday [...]
Hundreds of GMC swimmers to become ‘Marisa’s Minnows’ again for The Marisa Tufaro Foundation
The Greater Middlesex Conference swimming community is once again pooling its resources to make a splash for The Marisa Tufaro Foundation. Hundreds of student-athletes from the league’s high school teams will become "Marisa's Minnows," participating [...]
Second annual bowling tournament and holiday toy drive will honor Marisa, benefit the Tufaro Foundation and bring joy to pediatric patients
Born with a complex cardiac defect, Marisa Tufaro lived with a medical condition that restricted her from some physical activity, but never prevented her from bowling. Marisa, who died in 2017 at the age of [...]