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It is with the HEAVIEST Heart that we acknowledge the Loss of CRF Committee Member and our Founders VERY DEAR Friend Miriam Colon

  It is with the HEAVIEST Heart that we acknowledge the Loss of  CRF Committee Member and our Founders VERY DEAR Friend Miriam Colon who passed away March 3, 2017. Miriam was one of our VERY Active Committee Members and had been secretly battling Dementia. We are all SO SAD.

CBTP ‘Summer Sprint’ Adds Another Researcher, Thanks to the 2015 Cristian Rivera Foundation Service and Dedication Award Winner, Carlos Colon

The Children’s Brain Tumor Project (CBTP) has been given the opportunity to add another researcher to our ambitious “Summer Sprint.” Carlos Colon, a committee member of the Cristian Rivera Foundation, has pledged $5,000 to support this additional summer research position to supplement our already ambitious effort. Thanks to our generous supporters, the CBTP lab had […]

NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS TO THE PUERTO RICAN MIRIAM COLON

Miriam Colon has many merits, she has a prolific and a very successful career, and she was the founder and director of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in New York City. Her long career began in 1953 in her native Puerto Rico with the film Los Peloteros. Not already spent a year when the Puerto Rican actress was in the […]

The Cristian Rivera Foundation Raises $10,000 with Successful Theater Event

  The Cristian Rivera Foundation hosted a successful charity performance of award-winning bilingual musical DC-7, The Roberto Clemente Story on Thursday, March 22. The event, which included a two-hour red carpet event catered by Celebrity Chef and Cristian Rivera Foundation Committee Member Alex Garcia, the executive chef at Babalu Restaurant and Lounge in the Bronx, […]

Miriam Colon and Khaliah Ali Join the Cristian Rivera Foundation Committee

The Cristian Rivera Foundation welcomed two new members to its high-profile Committee actress Miriam Colon and Khaliah Ali, daughter of Mohammad Ali. Colon is a veteran of stage and screen, having appeared in Scarface, All the Pretty Horses, soap opera Guiding Light and HBO’s How to Make it in America. She is also the founder, […]