Donato J. Tramuto believes for any foundation to be successful, its leaders need to follow their own passions. For Tramuto, those are inspiring young people with disabilities to believe in themselves, healthcare access, and human and equal rights and dignity for all.

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Along with working as an executive at healthcare and pharmaceutical companies for the better part of three decades, Tramuto has started two foundations. He created the first, the Ogunquit–based Tramuto Foundation, which provides college scholarships to young adults, in memory of two friends and their three-year-old son, who were on the United Airlines flight that crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Tramuto himself was scheduled to be on the plane, but a toothache forced him to change his flight. In 2011 he founded Health eVillages, which works to broaden healthcare access and provides state-of-the-art mobile health technology to communities in need around the world. Most recently, Tramuto has been named honorary scholar-in-residence at St. Joseph’s College in Standish.