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 [...]
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 [...]