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1ST ANNUAL “I GOT YOU!” GOLF OUTING | June 4, 2024
Honoring Smithtown Supervisor Ed Wehrheim
Stonebridge Golf Links & Country Club
2000 Raynors Way | Smithtown, NY 11787
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Get your tickets for everyone’s favorite annual event; The Annual Fishing Trip to Benefit the Gino Macchio Foundation Scholarship Fund
TICKETS: CONTACT MARGUERITE DALY - 631-496-6179
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THE ANNUAL GALA
Put Recovery to Work
The Gino Macchio Foundation's Annual Gala helps to provide opportunity to those in recovery who are ready to take the next step. Research shows that working helps people overcome substance misuse & stay sober, instilling meaning in their lives & strengthening the desire to remain sober. As such, we're empowering individuals in recovery by providing employment opportunities, and training support to businesses and organizations to become Recovery Friendly Workplaces.
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1980 CLASSIC CORVETTE RAFFLE
And the winner is...
The Gino Macchio Foundation is thrilled to present the winner of the 1980 Classic Corvette, which we've raffled off to help support programs like our Put Recovery to Work initiative and restoring the ecosystem in the Great South Bay through Oyster Repopulation.
As Featured in the News!
Schaffer honored at Gino Macchio gala; announces new Amityville addiction center
IN THE NEWS...
By Nicholas Grasso
NOV. 11, 2021
Construction on Beacon Family Wellness Center II will begin next year at the site of the former Sayonara Motel.
The foundation honored Schaffer for his work as town supervisor to help elevate the foundation’s “Put Recovery to Work” program from Gino Macchio’s dream to reality.
-Greater Babylon
Gino Macchio Foundation: building living shorelines.
AS SEEN ON ABC NEWS
The Gino Macchio Foundation worked with various environmental groups to help build living reefs using oysters too large to sell at market. While seafood and shellfish demand crashed during the pandemic, the foundation worked with a number of environmental groups after devising a way to make good use of those oysters throughout coastal communities.
Babylon adding job training component to second location for addiction services
As Featured in Newsday...
By Denise M. Bonilla
Nov. 15, 2021
Monica Primo, (right) program coordinator of the Town of Babylon's Beacon Family Wellness Center, located in North Babylon, gives a quick tour of the center to Babylon Town Supervisor Rich Schaffer (center) and Steve Macchio (left) of the Gino Macchio Foundation.
Credit: Newsday / Photo: John Paraskevas
Gino Macchio Foundation: Our Story
CINEMATIC TRAILER
It began with a dream... Gino's dream.
This is the story of how the Gino Macchio Foundation was born. Despite their heartache; family and friends found solace in Gino's dream to repopulate oysters in the Great South Bay. Together, we have built technology, inspired by Gino's designs, which has helped to clean up the Great South Bay, as well as assist local Oyster Farms to reach sustainability.
1980 Classic Corvette Raffle Winner
AND THE WINNER IS...
The Gino Macchio Foundation is thrilled to present the winner of the 1980 Classic Corvette, which we've raffled off to help support programs like our Put Recovery to Work initiative and restoring the ecosystem in the Great South Bay through Oyster Repopulation.
Thank You to everyone who participated in the raffle. We could not carry on with Gino's life mission without your support for the Foundation.
Helping Our Heroes During the COVID-19 Pandemic
HELPING OUR HEROES
In an effort to support the community during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Gino Macchio Foundation delivered meals to our heroes who are caring for those fighting the COVID-19 virus. Like You Got Us... We Got You!
In Addition to delivering meals to our medical professionals, the Gino Macchio Foundation also delivered PPE, reusable respirators, reusable respirator storage bags and coverall suits to keep them safe.
THE OYSTER STATION
THE OYSTER STATION
Driven by Gino’s life motto: I Got You, the Macchio family and friends have taken his dream a step further, with the Oyster Station.
This state-of-the-art work station will serve the Oyster Farms in the Great South Bay, giving farmers direct access to equipment, and supplies which are impossible to transport on farming vessels.
GIVING BACK DURING THE
COVID-19 PANDEMIC
AIDING LOCAL AQUACULTURE DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
AQUACULTURE STIMULUS
In an effort to support the community during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Gino Macchio Foundation will purchase 1,000 Oysters, at the rate of .50 cents per oyster, from each Islip Farm, to help cover daily expenses during these difficult times.
PUT RECOVERY TO WORK
PUT RECOVERY TO WORK
The Gino Macchio Foundation empowers individuals in recovery by giving them a job with a purpose
SAVE THE GREAT SOUTH BAY
SAVE THE BAY FOR A DOLLAR A DAY
Help the Gino Macchio Foundation reclaim and clean the Great South Bay...
THE DREAM THAT BECAME OUR FOUNDATION
THE STORY BEHIND THE INSPIRATION
How Gino Macchio began to dream of better way to create sustainable Oyster Farms...
HOW WE GOT STARTED
THE STORY OF HOW WE GOT STARTED
The Gino Macchio Foundation began with a dream...
SAVE THE GREAT SOUTH BAY
SAVING THE GREAT SOUTH BAY
Our goal is to flood the Great South Bay with Oysters to save the ecosystem
THE TOOLS OF THE TRADE
HELPING OYSTER FARMERS: THE TOOLS
Learn how the foundation provides farmers the tools to become more sustainable
INAUGURAL GALA
VIEW PHOTOS
View Photos from our Inaugural Dinner Gala
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2024
PUT RECOVERY TO WORK GALA | DATE TBD
The Put Recovery to Work Gala
We had a sell out crowd as we honored our Inaugural Man of the Year, The Honorable Rich Schaffer, Babylon Town Supervisor in 2021 and Delores Bocklet in 2023... Stay Tuned for our next big announcement. Follow us on Social Media and never miss an opportunity to help our community and our environment.
Through the power of giving, ingenuity and education we are creating sustainability while transforming lives and the environment in which we all live
Oysters and Clams purify the Great South Bay as they filter the water for their food. An adult oyster can filter as much as 50 gallons of water a day.
Sediment and nitrogen cause problems in Bay waters. Oysters filter these both either by consuming them as food or shape them into small packets, which are deposited on the bottom where they are not harmful.
Clams and Oysters once filtered the entire Great South Bay once every 2 ½ days. At current population levels it takes 100 days to filter the bay. We must repopulate the bay to have an impact.