Program Expansion

Join in Nia House's Time Capsule

The Nia House Time Capsule will be buried at the Grand Opening Ceremony on Saturday, September 26th.

All families that have donated $50 or more to our Program Expansion are invited to fill an envelope full of love and memory to be unearthed in 2034 at Nia House's 60th Anniversary. 

If you haven’t donated, you still can!

You can fill your envelope with a letter to your child that they will receive 20 years from now, photos, art, family stories, store receipts, song lists... you name it! 

Commercial envelope size  (3.5 x 6 inches) is ideal.

Email or talk to Stacey with any questions: stacey@niahouse.org 

 

 

 

 

Join Nia House in Celebration: September 26th!

We are thrilled to announce that toddlers will enter into new Nia House classrooms on Tuesday, September 8th!

Come celebrate this historic moment in Nia House history at our Grand Opening Ceremony on Saturday, September 26th. 

 

Enjoy a Caribbean infused evening of live music and dinner at Nia House’s Annual Silent  Auction.The event will be held on our newly expanded campus.

For everything you need to know, to make a donation for tickets, or reserve childcare, click here Grand Opening Ceremony. 

Save the Date for our Grand Opening Ceremony!

Please mark your calendars for Saturday, September 26th! 

Enjoy a Caribbean infused evening

of live music and dinner at

 

Nia House’s Annual

Silent  Auction.

 

The event will be held on our

newly expanded campus.

For everything you need to know, to make a donation for tickets, or reserve childcare, click here Grand Opening Ceremony. 

Decorative Cement Walkways

A group of three children and a teacher went on a neighborhood stroll to collect leaves. With the help of Scott, Esme’s dad, and with the natural falling of leaves from our avocado tree, the collected and fallen leaves laid in the wet cement of our campus walkway. (Yes, the cement mixers returned!) Beautiful leaf imprints now adorn the walkways of our new toddler campus. It is easy and exciting to imagine the toddlers thrill at discovering these. This will happen so soon!

Foundation

Not one, but two cement mixers welcomed children during their arrival Nia House. A huge tube pumping cement from the cement mixer to the open dug out lot had to be hurdled to pass through the sidewalk. In toddler and preschool life- this is living. For staff and long-time supporting families- this is happening. The foundation for Nia House’s toddler campus was laid.

Demolition

These last few days have been filled with excitement, cupcakes, important milestones and hard work.

Just this morning (Monday, November 10th), an excavator arrived on a flatbed truck and in about an hour, the site of our new school building was leveled. A few of us watched and cheered as the excavator dug into the old building, taking claw-fulls of old house down to the ground. We now have a site that is nearly ready for more of Nia House.

Check out this stop-motion video, taken by one of our Board members:

Groundbreaking Ceremony

On Friday night, we celebrated with the school community during Nia House’s official Ground Breaking Ceremony. Mayor Tom Bates, Senator Loni Hancock, Nia House Founder Tia Waller and Board President Jeff Vincent helped commemorate the event, offering words of encouragement and recognition of Nia House’s journey.

Throughout the Ground Breaking Ceremony, families participated in a photo shoot with the plan of including their photos in our very own Nia House time capsule. If you missed our Ceremony and still want to participate in the time capsule, please get in touch- we’d love to include you!

Thanks to everyone who helped celebrate our ground breaking. What a weekend it’s been! Special thanks to the Ridolfi family for baking the ceremonial cupcakes.