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St. Croix Foundation Awards $160,000 in Sustaining Impact Grants through CARE Fund

stThe St. Croix Foundation for Community Development has announced that $160,000 in grants were awarded to 11 member organizations of the foundation’s Nonprofit Consortium. Made possible through the foundation’s CARE Fund and GlobalGiving, the 2021 CARE Sustaining Impact Grant serves to build operational and programmatic capacity among nonprofits as they advance COVID-19 relief efforts.

The CARE Fund, which was established in the immediate aftermath of 2017 Hurricanes Irma and Maria, supports strategic, high impact investments in the Virgin Islands for disaster recovery and community resilience. Now that it is a permanent fund of the foundation’s, in this cycle of grantmaking the CARE Fund prioritized

1) Stabilizing nonprofits serving vulnerable populations through the Open-Door Funding; and

2) Providing direct support to frontline NPOs to build or expand programming.

This 2021 cycle of the CARE Fund was invitation only and offered to St. Croix Foundation’s Nonprofit Consortium (NPC) member organizations. A coalition of more than 25 nonprofits, Nonprofit Consortium is a progressive civic model that collaborates around four vital sectors including,

1) health and human services,

2) education and youth development,

3) environs (built and natural), and

4) arts, culture, and Crucian heritage. Applications were carefully reviewed by the foundation’s Grants Review Committee, with the following nonprofits and charitable projects receiving awards between $10,000 and $15,000:

  1. Caribbean Center for Girls and Boys of the Virgin Islands: Out-of-School Programming
  2. Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts: Art Ignites!
  3. Diane Hampton Breast Cancer Project: Art Therapy Workshops
  4. FYR is LIT: BLAZE Literacy and Teen Leadership Development
  5. Music in Motion: 39th Dance Season
  6. Croix Environmental Association: Afterschool Environmental Education
  7. Croix Landmarks Society: Junior Preservationists Program
  8. Croix Long Term Recovery Group: Resilience Hub Planning
  9. Virgin Islands Architecture Center for Built Heritage and Crafts: Strategic Development Organizational Capacity Building
  10. Virgin Islands Good Food Coalition: Organizational Capacity Building
  11. World Ocean School: Roseway Program Capacity Building

Funding for this round of grants will support programs that collaborate to leverage scarce resources and span literacy skill development, art therapy and organizational capacity to achieve greater impact. Awards were made possible through a grant award from GlobalGiving, which is a global crowdfunding platform that connects donors with meaningful causes in over 165 countries and operates on a core principle that “good ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time.”

In 2020, the GlobalGiving community raised more than $105 million for projects in 169 countries alone.

To date, St. Croix Foundation’s CARE Fund has invested over $1.9 million into the V.I.’ ongoing recovery efforts through innovative and strategic grantmaking, workforce development, energy independence and food security initiatives.

Deanna James, president and CEO of St. Croix Foundation, said, “With the Virgin Islands continuing to be outside of most national philanthropies’ funding sphere, GlobalGiving’s trust-based approach to grantmaking allows the foundation to not only keep doors open but build capacity in the civic sector for sustained impact.”

St. Croix Foundation extends its deepest appreciation to GlobalGiving and to the V.I. nonprofits, national partners and foundations as well as the foundation’s Grants Review Committee for their engagement.

For more information on how to support the CARE Fund or to support the Foundation’s numerous other projects/programs, contact St. Croix Foundation at 773-9898, staff@stxfoundation.org, or visit its website at https://www.stxfoundation.org.

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