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Our Fall semester has come to an end and we’re getting ready to turn inward. Winter at Kite’s Nest used to be all about big expos where we’d invite everyone into our indoor classroom where we’d all gather close to admire art displays, performances, and presentations create…

📢 CALL TO ACTION! Today we’re kicking off our year-end fundraiser and we need your help. We have to raise $50k and welcome 30 new monthly sustainers by Dec 31 to unlock a $50k challenge match. Read on to learn about our year and our work. This year, the call was clear. Aft…

Today is Briggin’s birthday! Join us in celebrating this fierce, focused mover and shaker who brings our environmental justice visions to life with such deep care and reverence 🌻🌱🌞🌀Add your loving wishes below! You are such a rock and a brilliant sky all at once. You ca…

✨ Life update! ✨This time of year brings with it beginnings and endings. Between the solstice and the new year, we’re all marking transitions in our lives and here at Kite’s Nest, this is especially true for us as we move out of our home at 108 S. Front St. This is the end o…

Can you believe that all this life used to happen right here?! We’re packing up the last of our supplies and soaking in the memories from our time at South Front Street; it’s got us reflecting on the days when we’d all pack in like sardines - no masks, all joy - for wild and…

As we reflect on 2021, there’s one moment we hold especially close. On a beautiful Saturday in September, many of you joined us for a day of collective dreaming about a future home for Kite’s Nest. So many members of our community came together at our North Front Street site…

We’re in the final countdown: we only have 3 days left to unlock our $50k challenge match and reach our goal! Many of you have already come through for us in a big way, but we still need to welcome 18 new monthly sustainers and raise the final $14,226 by midnight on Friday t…

Less than 72 hours left! We still need 17 lovely humans to become monthly sustainers and raise the final $9,198 in order to unlock our $50k matching gift by Friday. The year-round support we receive from monthly sustainers allows us to continue building a community of libera…

We only 14 need more monthly sustainers and $8,353 to unlock our match! Here’s yet another reason to come through for us right now: Young people like Emmett come to Kite’s Nest to find a community that supports them to develop a deeper understanding of the world, and to beco…

At the close of each day of our SJLA program, teens and staff recite the famous chant by Assata Shakur. It’s a practice that just kinda developed over the years, a ritual that keeps us all rooted in the legacy of movement leaders who came before us. It’s an expression of our…

We’re soooo close! ONLY 3 more monthly sustainers and $513 to go to unlock our $50k match and reach our goal by midnight! It’s been an incredible year here at Kite’s Nest and we are so humbled and grateful to have spent it with all of you. This was a year of powerful growth…

🎉 WE DID IT! YOU DID IT! 🎉 In the very last minutes of 2021, we successfully unlocked our challenge match and met our year-end goal of raising $100k and 30 new monthly sustainers! From the very bottom of our hearts, thank you to every single one of you who gave, promoted, sh…

📣 BIG NEWS: Kite’s Nest Spring 2022 semester enrollment is officially open! As we anticipate the bright, new energy of Spring, we’re gearing up for an exciting array of classes and experiences ahead of us! Check out our full list of offerings below and visit the link in ou…

🎉 Enrollment is open until Feb 24 for our Spring daytime and afterschool programs! Check out our new daytime class for ages 8-14, “Secret Society of Bookworms” on Thursdays, April 7 - June 2 | 10am - 3pm | Have you ever imagined what it’s like living inside of a cocoon, or …

We’re Hiring! Join the Kite’s Nest team as Manager of the River City Garden 🌱 🌻 Experience managing community gardens? 🌻 Passionate about environmental justice? 🌻 Experience translating or working with multilingual communities? 🌻 Speak Bengali? 🌻 Looking for a flex…

✨Our daytime and afternoon Spring classes are open for enrollment until Feb. 24th!✨ Read below to learn more about one of our daytime classes, Body Dwellings. This class is open to students 8-14 and is held Tuesdays, April 5 - May 31, from 10am - 3pm. We live in our bodie…

📢 Come work with us! Calling youth ages 16 - 24 for a paid employment opportunity: Emerging Builders! Interested in learning the ins and outs of a construction site? Want to create outdoor infrastructure for teen run events? Check out this paid employment opportunity for yo…

🌸 Spring Semester Enrollment is still open and we’re calling all gardeners, nature lovers, artists, cooks, adventurers, and fun loving young people ages 7 - 12!! Come join us in the Roots & Rebels Garden Club! We’ll meet each week at our River City Garden (59 N. Front St.) t…

As enrollment comes to end tomorrow, Feb. 24, we’re continuing to shout out the great programs we have coming up this Spring Semester: Gather, connect, heal, learn, play, and organize! Our Social Justice Leadership Academy (SJLA) is a weekly space that combines political ed…

Our Spring Semester 2022 priority application window closes today! We’re thrilled to see so many applications come through already; your excitement fuels our own and we know that with so many engaged young people, our time together will be full of meaning, laughter, growth, …