New Beginnings Community Center

Help Us Kick Off the Start of New Beginnings: Come and join us on September 19, 2010 from 11a.m-3p.m. at Martha Clara Vineyards (6025 South Avenue Riverhead, NY 11901). There will be raffles, door prize and a 50/50. This event is $65 a person. It includes wine education and sampling, brunch, as well as music by Aron Michaels featuring New Beginnings #1 hit song. Please RSVP as soon as possible! Seats are limited. Contact us at 631-624-5651 or contact@nbli.org to reserve your seat. View poster. (pdf)

Volunteer Committee Meeting: Want to help out our great cause? Come and join us on September 2, 2010 for our committee meeting. This will be held at Eva's of Sayville, 4840 Sunrise Highway in Sayville, NY 11782. We need as many volunteers as we can get to help us at our 2nd Annual Veterans Day Gala on November 11, 2010 at Leonards in Great Neck. We are looking for people to help with the sign in. We are expecting at least 500 people. Also, we are looking for people to walk around the halls of the location wearing various clothes from the 1940's (military uniforms, gowns, etc.). Any help we can get will be greatly appreciated.

Directions to the Veteran's Day Gala: Plan on coming to our 2nd Annual Veteran's Day Gala but don't know how to get there. Follow these directions (pdf) or map (pdf) and you'll be sure to make it there just fine.

Shop Online @ New Beginnings: Our shopping cart has many different items available. There is something for everyone, whether it is a nice necklace for a special woman in your life, or a trendy men’s button down shirt. Profits from purchases of these items will not only support New Beginnings Community Center, but will help all the families involved in the TBI community as well. Help support our organization and raise awareness to this silent epidemic. Shop now »

Purchase an Ad in our Journal: Purchasing an ad in our journal is a win-win situation for everyone. For us, it helps to raise funds to help TBI survivors and their families, as well as build a strong support group in our community. Hundreds of people will be seeing this journal so for those of you with a business, it is a great way to get your name out there and publicly advertise your business. You can support our venture, New Beginnings Community Center, veterans, and our two honorees, Lenny Sessa and Robert Tunison. Help support our organization and raise awareness to this silent epidemic by joining us in our 2nd annual Veterans Day Gala. Purchase Purchase Your Ad Now »

In the Mood!: Come join us for a walk back in time, back to the 1940’s. Men in Uniform and Rosie the Riveter. Memories, melodies and romance, remember them then, make some now. New Beginnings will be holding its 2nd Annual Veterans Day Gala, November 11, 2010 at Leonard’s of Great Neck. Please help to make this event special by purchasing an ad in our Journal. Read more about Cory's story. (PDF)

Cory Castelli Support: New Beginnings Founder, CEO & President Allyson Scerri is a friend of Debbie Castelli a single mother who has a 17 year old son, Cory, who is in need of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy [H.B.O.T.] Cory has acquired additional brain trauma from prior epilepsy surgery. New Beginnings has reached out to Dr. Paul Harch of New Orleans who is top in his field for “H.B.O.T.” and has agreed to treat Cory, but this does not come without a price tag. At this time, New Beginnings has raised approximately $3000 to help Debbie and her family to help pay these bills while Cory is getting his much needed treatment. Please help us to help Cory by donating whatever you can. (PDF).

Motorcycle Run: On Sunday, April 11, 2010 New Beginnings will team up with Long Island Abate, Full Throttle Magazine, On the Road Again Motorcycle School, The Brick House Brewery and Suffolk County Legislator Jack Eddington for the 1st Annual Share the Road Ride. The purpose of the event is to raise public awareness of motorcycle safety. Registration will be from 9am-12pm at the H. Lee Dennison Building on Veterans Memorial Highway in Hauppauge, NY. The ride will end at The Brick House Brewery on Main Street in Patchogue. Come enjoy food, vendors and live music! Safety speakers and demonstrations will begin at 11am. Cost is $20 per rider, $10 per passenger, $5 discount for Abate members. A free t-shirt & bumper sticker will be given the first 150 people to register! Proceeds will go to Long Island ABATE’s Motorcycle Awareness Campaign.

IONA College Walk : The 5th Annual Strides for Speech Walk at Iona College will benefit the Iona College Speech and Language Clinic as well as New Beginnings. The event will be held on Sunday, April 11, 2010. Registration begins at 10:30am and the walk begins at 11am. There is a $15 minimum to walk.

Carribean Night Fundraiser For New Beginningsat Atlantis Aquarium: Miss New York State, Legislator Tom Muratore and steel drum enter-tainment were a few of the assets that attributed to a night of fun at Atlantis Marine World Aquarium in Riverhead for a New Beginnings Community Center. Read article (PDF)

Caribbean Night Fund Raiser: March is Brain Injury Awareness Month. Join New Beginnings Community Center as we take you to the Caribbean Islands for a night of fun, great food, music, and a cause that raises the awareness of traumatic brain injuries. Although this event will help raise support for the purchase of state-of-the-art equipment, the real purpose of this event is about returning hope to those who now live in despair from bran injury. It’s for our soldiers who now live different lives after sacrificing their own for you and I. It’s for mothers who daily give up their aspirations to personally care for their brain injured son or daughter. And it’s for those children who wish their father could once again grab their hand and go for a walk.

Congressman Timothy Bishop nominates Allyson Scerri for Town of Brookhaven’s Women of Service Award: Each year the Brookhaven Town Office of Women’s Services seeks nominations for outstanding women of Brookhaven, who live or work in Brookhaven, and perform a wide variety of tasks on a professional and volunteer basis. This year, the Office of Women’s Services will be celebrating their 24th Annual Women’s Recognition during Women’s History Month with a special celebration to be held in March 2010. Allyson Scerri has been nominated for this Award by Congressman Timothy Bishop. Congratulations to Allyson for the nomination. You are already a winner to us! Read more. (PDF)

Allyson & Steve Scerri Named 2009 Citizens of the Year: Congratulations to Allyson and Steve Scerri, for winning the South Shore Press 2009 Citizens of the Year Award!. Read more. (PDF)

NB Featured in Newsday: With the support of New Beginnings and others, County Executive Steve Levy Thursday presented Wilson Batista Jr., the Brentwood teen shot while playing basketball in a park last summer, with a $12,457 check to help pay his medical bills. Read more.

MyLITV Features New Beginnings Community Center: New Beginnings featured on MyLITV as supporters with the recent Wilson Batista Fundraiser event. Read more.