Recreation

December is a great time to take a dip in the Atlantic Ocean, right? Most might think absolutely not, but hundreds in the Hamptons are willing to brave the cold, for a good cause of course.

In the spirit of giving, the annual tree lighting at c/o The Maidstone and The Living Room Restaurant will include a food drive for the East Hampton Food Pantry and toy drive for Toys for Tots.

The New York Islanders are joining forces with Smile Train on Giving Tuesday, to raise funds and awareness for the world's leading cleft lip and palate charity.

Wolffer Estate Vineyard will kick off their holiday season with the annual Festival of Trees and Lighting of the Vines.

Gurney's Inn, Resort & Spa is holding a fundraiser to help some of the smaller areas of Leyte province on December 13th.

To protect children from abuse, they took their guidelines from the ASPCA. And so, the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children became the world's first child protection agency.

Mental health and substance abuse often doesn't seem as compelling as life threatening illnesses for fund raising, but lives are saved in such facilities as residential mental health clinic Silver Hill Hospital, as profoundly as in the hospitals treating cancer.

Acclaimed filmmaker, art advisor Alexandra Fairweather and Eric Goodman, an M & A specialist with a premier international bank, unveiled a new members-only web site, at a by-invitation-press-and-potential-members launch event at (appropriately) the Yale Club in Manhattan.

The Joseph J. Theinert Memorial Fund is holding the Fourth Annual 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament at the Shelter Island School Gymnasium.

Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor is holding "Typhoon Relief For The Philippines," a musical evening of fundraising benefiting the Red Cross.