Old Bridge Hoops Academy’s 3-on-3 tournament and back-to-school picnic to benefit Marisa Tufaro Foundation
The Old Bridge Hoops Academy’s third annual 3-on-3 basketball tournament and back-to-school picnic will benefit The Marisa Tufaro Foundation, a tax-exempt nonprofit whose mission is to help Middlesex County children in need. The event – [...]
Tufaro Foundation funds advanced technology and supports art therapy at children’s hospital
A hospital stay can be an anxious time for children and their families. The Marisa Tufaro Foundation helped make these stays less stressful for children when it recently made a generous donation to the child [...]
Metuchen’s Proving Ground Team Building Challenge will benefit Marisa Tufaro Foundation
Metuchen High School is once again transforming its sprawling campus into a massive obstacle course for its second annual Proving Ground Team Building Challenge, which promises to be bigger and better than last year’s inaugural [...]
Marisa Tufaro Foundation hosts boardwalk-themed Family Fun Night at children’s hospital
After being diagnosed with cancer and before the rapid onslaught of the disease spread to her brain, Marisa Tufaro worked with a hospital writing therapist to chronicle a visit to a “happy place” during her [...]
Marisa Tufaro Foundation to host boardwalk-themed event for pediatric patients and their families
The Marisa Tufaro Foundation is hosting a boardwalk-themed “Family Fun Night” exclusively for pediatric patients and their families at a Central Jersey children’s hospital this week. The event has been made possible through donations to our [...]
Donation to Special Strides therapeutic riding center provides hippotherapy and sponsors a horse
In addition to making a donation for a second straight year that will provide a child with one month of hippotherapy at Special Strides, The Marisa Tufaro Foundation has also provided funding to sponsor for [...]
Tufaro and Sherrod foundations provide AED and training to Edison youth football program
The Marisa Tufaro Foundation and the Kittim N. Sherrod Foundation have partnered to provide a state-of-the-art bilingual portable automated external defibrillator to the North Edison Shamrocks Pop Warner football and cheerleading program, as well as AED [...]
Two years ago today: Herbert Hoover Middle School honored Marisa at graduation
Marisa’s father wrote this column exactly two years ago today about the amazing manner in which Herbert Hoover Middle School's staff and students honored Marisa during their eighth-grade “graduation" ceremony. As Herbert Hoover Middle School [...]
Herbert Hoover’s Marisa’s Makers club connects to the community “one craft at a time”
Marisa’s Makers, a club at Edison's Herbert Hoover Middle School, established in memory of Marisa Tufaro, a former student who passed away last year, has been busy in recent months working on multiple projects. As [...]