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 [...]
Monroe’s Liebenthal receives Tufaro Foundation GMC Student-Athlete Scholarship
Gennyka Liebenthal of Monroe Township High School has been named a recipient of the 2018 Marisa Tufaro Foundation Greater Middlesex Conference Student-Athlete Scholarship. A total of four recipients, including three others who were announced last [...]
Woodbridge honors Marisa’s memory with second annual scholarship in her name
The Marisa Tufaro Memorial Scholarship, which Woodbridge High School, through its benevolence, fully funds in Marisa’s honor and memory, is awarded annually to two exceptional college-bound seniors from Woodbridge High School who strive for excellence [...]
South Plainfield’s Heilmann and Lovett receive Tufaro Foundation GMC Student-Athlete Scholarship
Joseph Heilmann and Charles Lovett of South Plainfield High School have been named recipients of the 2018 Marisa Tufaro Foundation Greater Middlesex Conference Student-Athlete Scholarship. A total of four recipients, one who was announced earlier [...]
Woodbridge’s Daramola receives Marisa Tufaro Foundation GMC Student-Athlete Scholarship
Charity-Temitope Daramola has been named the first of four recipients of the 2018 Marisa Tufaro Foundation Greater Middlesex Conference Student-Athlete Scholarship. The three other scholarship recipients will be announced in the coming days. The scholarship [...]
Ciara Johnson named first annual Marisa Tufaro Memorial Edison High School Scholarship recipient
Ciara Johnson was honored as a recipient of the first annual Marisa Tufaro Memorial Edison High School Scholarship during the school’s Senior Awards ceremony on Thursday night. “You can’t find a better kid,” Edison High [...]
GMC Wrestling Coaches Association donates $2,500 to The Marisa Tufaro Foundation
The Marisa Tufaro Foundation received a $2,500 donation from the Greater Middlesex Conference Wrestling Coaches Association during the organization’s annual awards dinner. Following the lead of South Plainfield High School, which hosted a charity match [...]