Cane Bay Cares Sponsors St. Croix Spelling Bee!
The annual St. Croix District Spelling Bee brings together some of the brightest students from public, private and parochial schools around the island. To help support this enriching educational event, Cane Bay Cares stepped up to be a sponsor of the event. Cane Bay Cares’ donation supported the purchase of prizes for the winners, as well as lunch from Chicken Shack for the students, parents and coaches.
“This is such a fantastic event that promotes and celebrates academic excellence in the Virgin Islands, St. Croix in particular, so it was a no brainer when the committee was considering its support,” said Cane Bay Cares Manager Neisha Christopher-Christian.
The donation from Cane Bay Cares ended up supporting the following:
- Laptop and Chromebook for the 1st and 2nd place winners
- Tablets for the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place winners
- T-shirts for the spellers
- Official dictionary for district and territorial spelling bees
- Chicken Shack lunch for spellers, parents, coaches and officials
“On behalf of our spellers, coaches, parents and the entire Department of Education, Thank you Cane Bay Cares!!!” said DOE English Language Arts Coordinator Paulina Croskey.
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.