The Board of Directors of Thrive Allen County would like to announce our new President and CEO: Lisse Regehr. Regehr becomes the second President and CEO of Thrive Allen County, taking the reins from David Toland who led Thrive for 11 years. Toland resigned in...
BMX is a high-energy style of bicycling in which riders test their bike-handling skills and techniques through a series of ramps, rollers, and berms. A pump track is a short trail loop meant to be ridden by using the track features to maintain momentum and carry speed...
On February 12th, county commissioners and community members from Allen, Bourbon, and Crawford Counties united in Fort Scott to celebrate the adoption of the ABC Trails Plan, which provides a roadmap for future development of trails and routes in the region. The plan...
Through a grant from the Kansas Health Foundation, Thrive has been working intensely with residents of La Harpe, Kansas, a community of 500 which has long been defined by generational poverty and decline. Through this grant we have partnered with ioby (in our back...
David Toland, a seventh-generation Allen Countian, began as Thrive Allen County’s executive director in January 2008, after having worked for 8 years in Washington, DC. During his tenure, Thrive has grown from an all-volunteer coalition based primarily in Iola to an...
Thrive’s mission is to support and encourage programs, policies and resources that promote access to healthcare, healthy lifestyles, and positive community conversation that improves the well-being of residents of Allen County, Kansas.