Staff
David C. Toland
Executive Director
David is the first executive director of Thrive, bringing a wide range of leadership and management experience to the organization. A native of Allen County, David worked for six years as an appointee of Washington, DC Mayor Anthony A. Williams, ultimately becoming the highest-ranking appointee under theage of 30 in Washington city government. At city hall David served in a variety of roles for the Mayor, including Deputy Chief Operating Officer to the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Chief of Staff of the Office of Planning. His accomplishments included successfully leading the legislative effort to obtain city council approval of the 2006 overhaul of the city’s highly controversial Comprehensive Plan. Prior to coming to Washington David also worked for the city managers of Reno, Nevada and Bonner Springs, Kansas.
After leaving the Williams administration David served as Vice President of Development and Operations for the Menkiti Group, a DC-based real estate development company. At Menkiti David oversaw a five-fold increase in the company’s production of affordable housing units, and established new processes and systems to manage the company’s portfolio of commercial and residential real estate assets in Washington.
David holds a B.A. in Political Science and a Master’s in Public Administration from the University of Kansas, and a Certified Public Manager (CPM) certificate from The George Washington University. David and his wife, Beth, and their two children live outside of Iola in a Victorian home they are restoring.
Sunny Shreeve
Program Director
Sunny moved to Allen County, where several generations of her family had lived, in August, 2008. Prior to this move she lived in an Atlanta suburb for the previous 22 years. In Atlanta Sunny worked for 18 years as the Office Manager for Foster Wheeler Energy Corporation. Looking for a career change after receiving her bachelor’s degree, Sunny accepted a position with Trusco Capital Management in downtown Atlanta. As the Trading and Research Administrator and Soft Dollar Specialist for the firm, Sunny was responsible for the reduction of the Soft Dollar Program. The budget, $21.5 M annually when she began her work at Trusco was reduced to $4.1M under her leadership.
Sunny is currently the Program Assistant at Thrive Allen County. Her duties include grant writing, acting as a liaison to other community groups, overseeing Thrive’s part-time volunteers and interns, conducting grant reporting and managing the day-to-day affairs of the office. Sunny and her husband, David, live in Humboldt and are very active in their community.
Sunny holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Reinhardt College in Waleska, Georgia.