Herbert Hoover’s “Marisa’s Makers” are “connecting to the community one craft at a time”
A club at Herbert Hoover Middle School has been formed in tribute to Marisa as a way of honoring her passion for crafting and her desire to make others happy. Marisa’s former teacher, Shannon Marasco, [...]
Chamberlain College of Nursing students make heartfelt surprise donation to our foundation
Heather Zayas, president of the Student Nurses Association at Chamberlain College of Nursing in North Brunswick, recently spearheaded an online fundraiser for The Marisa Tufaro Foundation. Our entire board of trustees, including Marisa’s parents, Greg [...]
Middlesex school-community praised for collecting coats for children in need
Jackie Goedesky, president and founder of Hands of Hope, had high praise for the Middlesex High School community for the role it played in helping to collect winter coats, hats, scarves and gloves for children [...]
Transplant recipient and former star athlete turns song in his heart into musical tribute for Marisa
Brett Epps, who never met Marisa, but like many others has been inspired by her life, recently turned a song he carried in his heart following her untimely passing into a musical tribute (a link [...]
Chamberlain and Edison students helped Tufaro Foundation ‘Outrun Hunger’
Moved by the story of a teenage girl she never met, Heather Zayas, a nursing student, was inspired to help make a difference in the lives of others. Zayas and her classmates from the Chamberlain College of [...]
Middlesex partners with The Marisa Tufaro Foundation for Hands of Hope children’s coat drive
Middlesex High School has partnered with The Marisa Tufaro Foundation to conduct a children’s coat drive for Hands of Hope during the Blue Jays’ Oct. 20 home football game against Highland Park. Hands of Hope, [...]
Edison football partners with our foundation to benefit Hands of Hope
Members of the Edison High School football program will be among the more than 100 people who are expected to join The Marisa Tufaro Foundation’s team of runners and walkers in the fourth annual Race [...]
Metuchen High School’s generosity benefits The Marisa Tufaro Foundation
Metuchen High School’s inaugural Proving Ground Team Building Challenge, of which The Marisa Tufaro Foundation was a beneficiary, was such a resounding success that Board of Education member Justin Manley hopes the event will grow [...]
Forever in our hearts … one year ago today
A year ago today Marisa came home from the hospital following her successful heart transplant with the promise of a new life that cancer eventually took away. The expertise and compassion of an amazing medical [...]