Project Report
| Apr 23, 2021
Continuing to support childrens' programs in COVID
By Sharon Coldren | volunteer President and Executive Director
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Tutoring a child attending virtual public school
In the first quarter of 2021, CBCC used its grant funds to support a stipend for an assistant in a volunteer Children's School tutoring support program in Cruz Bay and to provide encouragement for a new summer children's programs by buying the school t-shirts. Funds are being reserved to continue to help with the construction of the preschool facility. Only $1,143 was spent thru April 15th from these funds.
Major efforts have been ongoing to try to be able to announce and actually start work on a broader community facility, so that we could make significant use of the GlobalGiving Funding platform to make a major difference in our Community, in the wake of the hurricanes. We are left with a hulking wreck where our elementary school used to be, and no willingness to engage in active plans for reuse. We keep hoping... and look forward to everyone's participation when we can move forward.
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Dec 28, 2020
Working to get the Preschool building finished
By Sharon Coldren | President and Volunteer Executive Director
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New Preschool for 21 chldren
During the last few months, COVID-19 precautions have meant no group childrens programs and Virtual Learning at home for students. CBCC got a grant from another sources to support in-person Virtual Learning tutoring so did not use these funds for that. Addtional Kindles were purchased to assist some students in getting online.
The Preschool construction project has been proceeding slowly, but surely, with funding from this grant and other funding sources. It is hoped that it can open in late January 2021, although that may be optimistic.
Donated Books have continued to be distributed at no cost to individuals and to the Little Libraries.
More effort has been undertaken, including hiring a Community Facilities Associate to focus full time on improving our facilities and trying to make use of the FEMA post-hurricane support funds that are only very slowly become available through the territorial government. This work is not funded under this grant -- but it is important to know that CBCC is continuing to work for children under a number of different program objectives. There is also work to get a playground set up here, but we are encountering difficulty in getting insurance to cover childrens programs or playgrounds.
Wishing everyone a better 2021 - with lots of real hugs and interactions - instead of our current Virtual Hugs. Big things will happen in the new year!
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Aug 26, 2020
Taking Steps Forward for Our Children during COVID
By Sharon Coldren | volunteer President and Executive Director
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Efforts to continue to restore and support children’s programs after Hurricane Irma continue, but progress has obviously been held up by COVID isolation. In this quarter, we have reprogrammed this funding and used other donated funds to purchase Kindles to allow children to access content and communicate with leaders of children’s groups using Facebook and other social media during the summer months that were devoid of organized in person programs.
We also began the purchase of supplies to repair and upgrade the building for a preschool. We hope it will become available as a small group meeting space for children and adults during COVID, prior to the ability to use the building for a preschool serving 21 children. This building is owned by the local Baptist church, and CBCC has committed to paying for building supplies and some work to make it usable. CBCC plans to spend at least $25,000 from other current fund sources, including about $6,000 of this grant.
We have just hired a new position for our work – A Community Facilities Program Associate – to focus our efforts and expand in this area over the next year and into the future.
Stay safe
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