Jul 28, 2023 | Food Security, Housing, Kid Link, Latest News, Working Upstream
In its first Report to the Community since before the pandemic, Sioux Falls Thrive shares the difficult data that points to learning loss across the city’s school system. Lower income and students of color still tend to lag behind their peers academically, according...
Mar 16, 2023 | Housing, Latest News
South Dakota Community Foundation Senior Program Officer Ginger Niemann (far right) presents a check to Sioux Falls Thrive staff members (left to right) Kristy Anderson, Director of Communications, Michelle Erpenbach, President, and Erin Nosal, Operations Manager. The...
Mar 15, 2023 | Housing, Latest News
After two successful years as a pilot program, a Sioux Falls Thrive initiative designed to help families avoid eviction has found a permanent home. Through 2020, Sioux Falls Thrive’s Housing Action Team looked for ways to prevent eviction. The team imagined what would...
Aug 24, 2021 | Housing, Latest News
With the goal of expanding access to affordable housing using existing community resources, Sioux Falls Thrive’s Housing Action Team (HAT) developed an innovative pilot. It’s called OneRoof. This past February, with the first families having graduated from the...
Dec 15, 2020 | Housing, Latest News, Working Upstream
Sioux Falls Thrive is capitalizing on one of our community’s biggest assets ― its people — including community stakeholder Anny Libengood. As best-selling business author Dan Heath points out in his recent book, “Upstream,” surrounding a problem with people and...