Thrive's Housing Action Team is testing a real-time affordable housing availability tool in the Sioux Falls area. The pilot will tie into the Service Point case management system being developed by Sioux Empire Network of Care. The Community Outreach (TCO) will...

Sioux Falls Thrive, a cradle to career initiative working to build tomorrow’s workforce, will hold a three-day workshop for community members who want to improve group leadership skills. Thrive brings cross-sector groups, or “action teams”, together to find ways to...

Sioux Falls Thrive’s first action team will take on one of the biggest obstacles to getting hundreds of kids to school ready to learn ─ housing. Safe, secure shelter is a fundamental human need and critical to student success. But, over 900 children in Sioux Falls –...

Candy Hanson, president of Sioux Falls Thrive, calls its Strategy Council a “brain trust”. Pictured back row, L-R are Council members: Stephanie Monroe, Kari Benz, Andy Patterson, Doug Morrison, Mike Lynch, Daren Ketcham, Traci Jensen, and Cindy Dannenbring. Front row...

This data user group made “OpenSiouxFalls” happen.  Back row, L-R: Lon Clemensen and Mike Lynch, Forward Sioux Falls; Russ Sorenson, SF Planning and Building Services; Al Roettger, SF Community Development; Thane Barnier, Chamber of Commerce. Front row, L-R: Pam...

For the past 13 years, Tim and Nancy Nicolai have done more than talk passionately about the needs of homeless people and their children. As the owners of the Arena Motel in Sioux Falls, the couple often provided temporary shelter for homeless families. They’ve...