Still 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.
Dykstra placed fifth among St. Croix residents and 41st overall with a time of 2:58:02 in the 5-mile race. And he did it all to raise money for the island and to help support activities that keep the island thriving and pushing through.
Despite the devastation, power outages and hardships that come in the aftermath of a storm, especially after two Category 5 hurricanes, the islands of the Caribbean are still culturally and environmentally rich with much to offer. Races like this highlight that and we were happy to be part of this Race to Recovery campaign.
We were able to raise over $1,500 through this effort. Thank you to everyone who contributed! For those of you who didn’t, it’s not too late. We are still accepting post-race donations through the below link. All donations go directly to relief efforts on St. Croix – and through this website and our social media profiles, you can watch where your donations go!
For more information on the St. Croix Coral Reef Open Water Swim Race, visit their website here. To view the full results, go here.
To donate to St. Croix relief under the Race to Recovery campaign, use this link:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=D3STGHGUVDGF4
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.