Operation 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 in the program soared again this year, with all 180 seats filled and many more families eager to take part. Demand for Operation Inspire continues to outpace capacity, showing just how valued the program has become.
Now in its seventh year, Operation Inspire continues to serve as Cane Bay Cares’ flagship initiative, providing enriching opportunities to students at public schools across St. Croix.
This school year, students will dive into nine unique projects designed to spark curiosity and creativity:
- Garden Healers
- The Seasoning Scientist Gardeners
- Around the World in 90 Days
- Love Where You Learn
- Weather on the Horizon
- We Deh Yah: Culture Keepers of the Virgin Islands
- Building Stronger Structures
- Crucian Kidventures: A Young Explorer’s Guide to St. Croix
- Brew Better: Design the Ultimate Healthy Beverage
With hands-on learning at its core, Operation Inspire continues to provide a safe space where children can grow, collaborate, and thrive. We can’t wait to see all that our students will achieve this school year!
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.