Recreation

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.

Jean Shafiroff and The Couture Council Board of Director of The Museum at FIT hosted a champagne cocktail party at Jean's Park Avenue floorthrough to celebrate Postrel's treatise "The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion."

"This is to repay all I shoplifted," teased Mario Buatta to Barbara and Kevin McLaughlin, co-owners of J. McLaughlin. Mario was signing his new, very heavy book -- seven pounds, representing 50 years of decorating -- at the Fund for Park Avenue's annual reception.

The 2013 House & Garden Tour will showcase five unique Hamptons homes with both oth historic and modern architecture.

The Career Transition For Dancers' 28th Anniversary Jubilee, Broadway and Beyond! Celebrating Theatre and Dance was once again a tour de force for the presenters.

Partnership With Children hosted their 11th Annual Wine Tasting entitled A Taste of the Good Life at Midtown Loft & Terrace that brought out supporters like designer Maggie Norris and Ian Broadwater.

You can always count on Jean Shafiroff's luncheon for the New York Women's Foundation to move swiftly from sipping to symposium. These powerhouse women like Carolina Herrera and Diana Taylor don't waste time.