About Us

Hello, we are Mike and Gina Franco.  Welcome to Dominque’s Journey

We started this Non-Profit Foundation to honor our beautiful daughter, Dominque Franco, who passed away suddenly on February 16, 2019, at the age of 21.  She was our youngest child, our only daughter, with 4 older brothers who adore her.  She was truly our bundle of love, joy, and endless energy. 

Dominque was in her junior year at the University of Rhode Island.  She was studying to be a nurse, and was President of her sorority, ZETA TAU ALPHA.  She lit up the entire room with her amazing smile.  She had a heart of gold and was truly determined to change the world and make it a better place.  Her passion was to help others, especially children.  Her dream job was to be a pediatric oncology nurse at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital so she could help the children and their families through the toughest fight of their lives. Dominque started raising money for St. Jude’s when she was only 5 years old.  She started with lemonade stands, then garage sales and various fundraisers….anything she could do to help.  As she got older, she also held fundraisers for a toy drive at Hackensack University Medical Center.  At 16, she raised enough money to buy holiday toys for all the kids in the oncology department, and continued that tradition each year until her passing.

Our mission is to keep Dominique’s spirit and passion alive with Dominique’s Journey Foundation.  We will continue her efforts of raising money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Hackensack University Medical Center, the two organizations that she was so dedicated to helping and supporting.

We hope you will take some time and look through our website to learn more about Dominique, and what an incredible young lady she is and always will be.  We also hope you can help us support the causes she held so close to her heart.

We love and miss her fiercely everyday, but we promise to continue her journey, and live our best lives to honor her.