Sep 26, 2024 | Childcare Crisis, Eat Well, Food Security, Housing, Kid Link, Latest News, Working Upstream
Since its inception in 2017, Sioux Falls Thrive has used the Collective Impact Model to bring together volunteers from across our community to work toward a better future for our children. The past year has been one of many big and small wins to that end. Read and... 
Sep 10, 2024 | Kid Link, Latest News, Working Upstream
Please join the Youth Development Collaborative in championing a new way to help middle- and high-school students become more engaged with the community and with enriching activities. Announcing the Launch of sfyouthconnect.org Programming available outside of school... Sep 26, 2023 | Kid Link, Latest News, Working Upstream
Thrive’s Youth Development Collaborative has launched a Request for Proposals to build an innovative new virtual platform to support youth and families across Sioux Falls. Submissions are due by 5 p.m. Oct. 19, 2023 for proposals to design and develop a website that... 
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... 
Jul 11, 2023 | Kid Link, Latest News
Kid Link activities — like the new Community Learning Center programs — changed with seasons and themes. Above, a warm summer afternoon was a good time for students to test the properties of water using a game board full of funnels and tubes. As the Kid Link pilot... 
Dec 6, 2022 | Kid Link, Latest News
Left to right: Michelle Erpenbach, Sioux Falls Thrive; Dawn Stephens, Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Dakota; Sherri Donaldson, Honoree; Jennie Marks, Helpline Center The Helpline Center congratulates Sherri Donaldson on being named the Sioux Empire November...