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...
Sep 29, 2021 | Kid Link, Latest News, Working Upstream
The after-school program at Laura B. Anderson Elementary School is growing, thanks to a collaboration among school staff, neighbors, volunteers and non-profit childcare providers working under the auspices of Sioux Falls Thrive. Thrive is a neutral facilitator of...
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...
Nov 15, 2020 | Latest News, Working Upstream
Two stories from the bestselling book “Upstream” are particularly compelling because they are case studies in dealing with the root causes of dysfunction. In one, author Dan Heath tells how a city virtually ended underage drinking and its consequences. In another...