News

AARP, News

AARP in the Virgin Islands has selected Barbara Walsh to receive the 2021 AARP in The Virgin Islands Andrus Award for Community Service, the association’s most prestigious and visible state volunteer award for community service. AARP in The Virgin Islands selected...

Aug

AARP Awards Two U.S.V.I. Organizations With Community Challenge Grants

AARP, News, Windsor

01/2022 UPDATE: The VI Trail Alliance used this funding to improve existing trails on the Windsor Farm Property in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture. We also collaborated with the NPS Cost Share program to build 3 miles of new trails....

Jul

NPS FY21 CHALLENGE COST SHARE AWARD

News, NPS Challenge

This project was made possible by an award from the National Park Trust and National Park Service via a nomination from NPS RTCA 01/2022 Update: This project will be completed at the end of January 2022. A new 3 mile trail referred...

May

MASK UP!!

VITAL supports the wearing of masks and have made 1000 masks available for distributed on St. Croix. These Masks are free. They are available at the Bike Shop in the Leather Back Brewery, the Book Store at the University of the Virgin...

May

Christiansted Bypass Refurbishing

Christiansted Bypass, News

The VI Trail Alliance is dedicated to the community needs. We believe that it is not just important to build communal spaces, but it is also important to maintain them. In this spirit VITAL have used funding from donations, to refurbish the...

Apr

St. Croix Mountain Biking Trail Blazers

St. Croix Mountain Biking has grown over the last 10 years. Discovering new trails on a trip home was deeply gratifying. Walking up the steep, dirt hill in flip flops, I was looking for Steve Scott, the mountain biking man. The...

Feb

Press Release: CFVI Awards Over $1.4 Million for Recovery, Revitalization and Building Forward Projects

The Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands (CFVI) has awarded grants to 18 USVI nonprofit organizations for a total of $1,480,735 in funding. Grant funds will be used to support ongoing hurricane recovery, revitalization and building forward efforts to enhance the wellbeing...

Jan

Preserve Point Udall’s Natural Beauty

The other day, I got a text form a Crucian friend, Vivian St. Juste, now living in North Carolina. The text was in reference to me taking out her two friends who were visiting St. Croix for the first time. On the...

Oct

Walkability Webinar