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 [...]
Metuchen’s Lapczynski named Marisa Tufaro Memorial Community Service Scholarship recipient
The promise of being allowed to hit wiffle balls as a toddler inspired Michael Lapczynski to work through the difficulties he experienced reading, which were not diagnosed as dyslexia until years later. The Metuchen High [...]
Artwork of Marisa Tufaro Memorial Arts Scholarship recipient has gone viral
The artwork of Dana Abbey, a Herbert Hoover Middle School student who was recently named one of five Marisa Tufaro Memorial Arts Scholarship recipients, went viral and was featured in national online publications after her [...]
James Monroe students fill “Weekend Snack Bags” for pediatric patients’ families
Fifth-grade students from James Monroe Elementary School in Edison partnered with The Marisa Tufaro Foundation to fill a hundred “Weekend Snack Bags” for families of pediatric patients at PSE&G Children’s Specialized Hospital in New Brunswick. [...]
Award-winning reporter and adjunct professor Jerry Carino to chair foundation scholarship committee
Our foundation is honored to announce award-winning journalist and adjunct professor Jerry Carino as chair of the Marisa Tufaro Memorial Community Service Scholarship committee. Jerry received a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and [...]
Sayreville Middle School student receives Tufaro Foundation art scholarship
The Marisa Tufaro Foundation is honored to announce that Cameren Gorrell of Sayreville Middle School in Sayreville has been selected as one of five students from five different Middlesex County schools to receive a scholarship to attend the [...]
The Marisa Tufaro Foundation provides scholarship opportunities
As part of the first wave of initiatives it unveiled on July 30, 2017, The Marisa Tufaro Foundation announced five scholarship opportunities will be available for students who attend school in or are residents of [...]