Posts by Wyndi Ambrose
Cane Bay Cares Supports 2026 St. Croix District Spelling Bee
Cane Bay Cares returns in 2026 to support the St. Croix District Spelling Bee and honor young scholars.
Read MoreWhy Education and Workforce Readiness Guided Our 2025 Giving
In 2025, Cane Bay Partners, together with our philanthropic arm Cane Bay Cares, invested more than $200,000 to support over 70 organizations and community initiatives across the U.S. Virgin Islands. These investments were intentional. We believe that strong communities and strong workforces are built over time. And that belief is what guides how we give and where we invest, with a long-term focus on…
Read MoreGuiding Discovery for 5+ Years: Honoring Operation Inspire’s Veteran Educators
Behind every success story at Operation Inspire are educators who guide, encourage, and inspire. This year, we celebrate five veteran team members who have each been with the program for more than five years: Astral Battiste, Claudia Eugene, Magdalyn Jules, Raydiance Cherubin, and Ronder Sinanan. Operation Inspire is centered on project-based learning, which asks teachers to…
Read MoreOperation Inspire Returns for Year Seven
We’re back at it again! The first week of Operation Inspire’s after-school program is officially underway, and the energy is high across our three partner schools. On Tuesday, September 2, students returned to the Eulalie Rivera PreK-8, Pearl B. Larsen PreK-8, and Ricardo Richards Elementary Schools to kick off another year of project-based learning. Interest…
Read MoreWhat OI Robotics Students Created at Claude O. Markoe Might Surprise You
Think it’s just kids playing with robots? Think again. Operation Inspire students on St. Croix built skills that could shape their future.
Operation Inspire brought STEM to the forefront this summer with a robotics program at Claude O. Markoe Elementary School that offered much more than technical instruction.
Fifty-two students were immersed in a month-long experience where coding, critical thinking, and teamwork became part of their daily rhythm.
Read MoreCane Bay Cares’ 2nd Annual Kids’ Supermarket Sweep Donates Groceries to LSSVI Residents during Health Expo
St. Croix youth raced through The Market STX on Sunday, Nov. 12, as they vied for cash prizes and helped support Lutheran Social Services residents during Cane Bay Cares’ second annual Kids’ Supermarket Sweep. The scavenger hunt was part of Cares’ Kids Health IQ Expo, an annual health fair designed to offer practical and fun…
Read MoreCane Bay Cares Participates in St. Croix Relay for Life 2022
A sense of solidarity and upbeat Caribbean music permeated the air as community partners walked side by side on the St. Croix Educational Complex track between October 15 and 16. Cane Bay Cares, philanthropic arm of Cane Bay Partners VI, LLLP, joined the community in marching at the annual St. Croix Relay for Life —…
Read MoreCane Bay Cares Celebrates Five Years of Service
Fintech company looks back on initiative’s transformation from hurricane relief to education incubator with new video Oct. 6, 2022 – Cane Bay Cares got its start in 2017 when entrepreneurs David Johnson and Kirk Chewning raised more than $1 million for hurricane relief efforts in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. In response to a devastating…
Read MoreRun or Donate to Support Lion Haven After-school Program for St. Croix Youth
July 11, 2022 — Cane Bay Cares is proud to support our community partner, Lion Haven, in their .1K Fun Run coming up on Saturday, July 16. The run is a fundraiser that’ll help the nonprofit secure the D.C. Canegata Ballpark where the team plans to offer engaging after-school activities for St. Croix youth during…
Read MoreCane Bay Cares Sponsors 2022 USVI Emancipation Day Fort-to-Fort ‘Walk to Freedom’
July 3, 2022 — Walking from Christiansted to Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands is no easy feat, but this USVI July 3rd tradition is more than a physical challenge — it’s a symbol of the resilience that led to freedom. The annual Emancipation Day Fort-to-Fort “Walk to Freedom” retraces the steps of 9,000 enslaved…
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Cane Bay Cares is a service initiative of St. Croix-based Cane Bay Partners VI, LLLP. Cane Bay Cares was established after three strong hurricanes, including two Category 5 storms, Irma and Maria, caused much damage to St. Croix during September 2017. The initiative has a goal of providing relief to the citizens of St. Croix. To make this possible, we have partnered with St. Croix Foundation, which is a 501c3 nonprofit that was established in 1990. All donations to Cane Bay Cares are donations to St. Croix Foundation and are 100% tax deductible.
Cane Bay Partners VI, LLLP was formed in June 2009 and founded by internationally experienced business executives with many years of experience in the financial services industry. Focusing our efforts primarily in the financial services industry, our management consulting practice specializes in providing services to clients in need of sophisticated risk management models, debt collections organizations which require liquidation models and analytics, and portfolio management companies desiring a variety of services.
Since 1990, St. Croix Foundation for Community Development has been advancing holistic community development as a pathway to economic prosperity, self-sufficiency, and sustainability. Established in the wake of Hurricane Hugo, today the Foundation is one of the premier place-based philanthropic leaders in the Virgin Islands. Having served as the conduit of over $37 million private and public sector dollars invested into the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Foundation’s impact has netted national recognition in almost every priority area – from economic development and community revitalization to public health, education reform, and nonprofit development. Our mission is to encourage greater philanthropic activity, to marshal resources, and to act as a catalyst to benefit the people of the Virgin Islands.