Let’s Say No to MREs on St. Croix this Thanksgiving
It’s been more than a month since St. Croix was hit with double whammy Cat 5 hurricanes and things are slowly getting back to normal, a new normal at least. But the little things and some big things are still harder than they should be and still take longer than they should. Many families are…
Read MoreKeeping St. Croix in the Forefront, One Article at a Time
We appreciate the coverage St. Croix and Cane Bay Cares received in the Miami Herald this past week. It’s important to highlight the unique position U.S. territories are in, not being fully incorporated as states or nations. Communities on the fringe often are overlooked, particularly during critical times such as these. “If Puerto Rico, where…
Read MoreLet’s Help Dry Out St. Croix!
Every week the needs on St. Croix change. At first it was food and water – the essentials for survival. Then it was generators and solar powered lights – the essentials for getting some sense of normal again. Now, we’re continuing all that and trying to fill in the gaps as needed. On the ground,…
Read MoreStill Time to Support the Race to Recovery on St. Croix
A few weeks ago we asked for each of our followers to contribute $20 or more to sponsor our athlete Jeff Dykstra in the St. Croix Coral Reef Open Water Swim Race on St. Croix – with all proceeds committed to relief efforts on St. Croix – in what we called the Race to Recovery.…
Read MoreWater, Water and More Water for St. Croix
We have been humbled by the community’s response to water distributions throughout St. Croix. About 18,000 bottles were distributed to hundreds of people from west to east in the wake of hurricanes Irma and Maria. More than a month after both hurricanes barreled through, most residents are still short on supplies and without basic necessities…
Read MoreChallenges in Distributing Aid Sometimes Result in Amazing Connections
There is so much involved in delivering aid – setting up a supply chain, a distribution network and so much coordinating – and while it can be challenging, sometimes everything just falls into place in a miraculous way. Well that is what happened recently when we got an offer of extra inventory of Acrtic Ice…
Read MoreSpread the Word About the Plight of the U.S. Virgin Islands
Virgin Islanders are used to being misunderstood, even ignored. It happens when you are traveling stateside and people do a double take before accepting your USVI driver’s license, when you go to pay for something online only to find no option for the VI when state is a required field, or when you try to…
Read MoreGive $20 Today – Support the Race to Recovery on St. Croix
We’ve got a challenge for you! We’re asking for $20 donations to sponsor our athlete in the St. Croix Coral Reef Swim. Our goal is to get 1,000 people to donate $20 toward this effort to support relief efforts on St. Croix through Cane Bay Cares. We’re trying to show the world that St. Croix…
Read MorePowering up St. Croix Organizations After Hurricanes Irma and Maria
Donations through Cane Bay Cares have powered up 36 in need organizations, schools and churches on St. Croix. This allowed us to reach as many people in the community as possible, and to address some of the most pressing issues impacting St. Croix residents after being hit by two Category 5 hurricanes – Irma and…
Read MoreLet’s Light up St. Croix with LUCI Solar Lights
Nearly 90% of St. Croix is still without power more than a month after Category 5 Hurricane Maria made landfall. Residents are anxious to rebuild and get back to a normal routine, but that’s hard without modern conveniences that we’ve all grown accustomed to – light among them. That’s where LUCI solar lights come in.…
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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.