South Plainfield’s Luke Niemeyer receives Tufaro Foundation GMC Student-Athlete Scholarship
As a first-team All-Greater Middlesex Conference selection in wrestling and football, Luke Niemeyer demonstrated throughout his scholastic career on the gridiron and the mat that he was a gifted athlete. The South Plainfield High School [...]
Bishop Ahr’s Tristan Palyha receives Tufaro Foundation GMC Student-Athlete Scholarship
Months after his beloved father suddenly passed away, Tristan Palyha returned to the wrestling room at Bishop Ahr, where his personal transformation paralleled the biggest team turnaround in school history. “My dad was probably the [...]
GMC baseball All-Star doubleheader will benefit our nonprofit
Rosters have been finalized for the 29th annual Frank Gavigan Greater Middlesex Conference Baseball Coaches Association Senior All-Star Game and the sixth annual GMCBCA Underclassmen Showcase, which will be played as a doubleheader at North Brunswick’s [...]
Kendra Candido named second annual Marisa Tufaro Memorial Edison High School Scholarship recipient
Kendra Candido was honored as a recipient of the second annual Marisa Tufaro Memorial Edison High School Scholarship during the school’s Senior Awards ceremony on Thursday night. Marisa, who would have been a sophomore this [...]
Tufaro Foundation sponsors Special Strides field trip for self-contained autistic classes
The Marisa Tufaro Foundation sponsored a Middlesex County elementary school’s field trip to Special Strides Therapeutic Riding Center in Monroe, where students from self-contained autistic classes were afforded the opportunity to interact with horses and [...]
Marisa Tufaro Foundation will match the Rutgers baseball program’s donation to Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital up to $5,000
As a way of giving back to the Rutgers University baseball program, whose roster features several players that have supported our nonprofit, The Marisa Tufaro Foundation announced today that it will match the Scarlet Knights’ [...]
Celebrating National Nurses Day with an open letter to the world’s most outstanding caregivers
Our nonprofit celebrates National Nurses Day with an open letter to the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit nursing staff at New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital. A little more than two years have passed since [...]
Award-winning reporters Carino and Sargeant to chair foundation scholarship committees
Our nonprofit is honored to announce award-winning journalists Jerry Carino and Keith Sargeant as co-chairs of The Marisa Tufaro Memorial Community Service Scholarship and The Marisa Tufaro Foundation Greater Middlesex Conference Student-Athlete Scholarship committees. The [...]
