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 [...]
Our nonprofit is helping to send a Middlesex County girl to Walt Disney World Resort
In celebration of World Wish Day and as a way of giving back to the organization that helped make the dream of our nonprofit's namesake come true, The Marisa Tufaro Foundation is elated to announce [...]
Centenary United Methodist Church makes generous donation to our nonprofit
Our nonprofit’s leadership was privileged to meet Rev. Anna Thomas, pastor of Centenary United Methodist Church in Metuchen, whose congregants recently made a generous donation to The Marisa Tufaro Foundation. Under Rev. Anna Thomas, who [...]
South Brunswick baseball program continues its generous support of our nonprofit
Since Marisa’s untimely passing, the South Brunswick High School baseball program, like countless other athletics teams across the Greater Middlesex Conference, has supported the nonprofit bearing her name. South Brunswick’s Diamond Club recently made a [...]