Keeva Deller Wins Summer Reading Challenge Hosted by Cane Bay Cares’ Operation Inspire
Aug. 7, 2023 – Fifth-grader Keeva Deller emerged as the unrivaled champion of the Summer Reading Challenge hosted by Cane Bay Cares’ Operation Inspire afterschool program.
David Johnson, a partner in Cares’ parent company Cane Bay Partners VI, personally presented Keeva with her prize Monday at the CBVI office. The 9-year-old went home with an Amazon Kindle, Undercover Books gift certificate, and Operation Inspire gear as her reward.
The 2023 Summer Reading Challenge was an initiative designed to encourage students to enrich their learning through reading over the summer while formal classes were on pause.
In the same spirit, Operation Inspire also successfully launched its “On the Road for Literacy” campaign in partnership with the USVI Division of Libraries, Archives and Museums. This campaign included Operation Inspire and the Bookmobile’s staff visiting several locations on Tuesdays to share stories, lead book discussions, and introduce the mobile library to young readers.
Through these tools, and with the help of a small incentive, Operation Inspire hopes to foster a love of reading in our future leaders, which will lead to stronger communication and social skills, as well as better literacy.
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.