Meet Sylvie, the girl who donated her birthday for St. Croix
We would like you to meet someone very special today – Sylvie Farbaniec. Sylvie recently turned 10 years old and she asked that her party guests bring donations for St. Croix instead of bringing her presents. Her painting party with friends generated $375 in donations for St. Croix.
Her guests painted pictures of pandas in a forest scene. And rather than bringing gifts, her guests brought checks made out to the Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands, with Cane Bay Cares written in the memo line – signifying the money going to our fiduciary partner into our funds for St. Croix.
Sylvie’s only request for the $375 raised for St. Croix was that the money be used for schools and students to buy supplies or other needs.
Well, Sylvie – we made your wish come true and ordered needed supplies for the John H. Woodson Junior High School, which was one of the schools condemned after Hurricanes Irma and Maria. The sixth and seventh grade students from Woodson have been sharing a school with one of the local high schools and alternating classrooms – meaning they only go to schools for a few hours each day, often with no supplies. The supplies we ordered were on their wish list of needed items. The school’s principal, Rodney Moorehead, and the rest of the Woodson team were so appreciative and could not stop expressing their thanks to Sylvie and her thoughtful gesture.
Sylvie’s birthday donation allowed us to order items like scientific calculators, dictionaries, thesauruses, graph paper, notebook paper, pencils, black pens, blue pens, red pens and highlighters.
If you would like to donate your birthday or next special event to benefit the children of St. Croix, please email us at info@canebaycares.org and we can help make it happen with the most impact!
Also, if you are a school on St. Croix and are in need of specific donations, please reach out to us through info@canebaycares.org and we will see if we can help.
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.