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From Teen Artist to Nonprofit Founder: Gracie’s Journey Battling Hunger & Growing Hope
Episode 63
Tuesday, 26 May, 2026
From sketching animals as a teenager to founding Harvest107, Gracie shares the journey that turned creativity, family influence, and a little righteous anger into a mission-driven nonprofit fighting hunger through urban gardens, sustainability, and community impact.Here are a few of the topics we’ll discuss on this episode of Scaling Impact Podcast.How a children’s book inspired Gracie to fight hunger at age 12The birth of Harvest107 and its first community projectsNavigating challenges as a young, foreign female leader in HaitiThe role of education and organic farming in battling malnutritionHarvest107’s resilience after adversity and its future global goalsResources:Harvest107DevNoodleNxtStepConnect with Gracie Pfaff:LinkedInConnect with our hosts:Josh Hoffman - LinkedInAlex Garashchenko - LinkedInQuotables:07:59 - I have an entire pantry and fridge full of food, yet there are kids just like me down the street and across the country who don't have that. And I was like, that's just unacceptable. Everyone deserves access to healthy and nutritious food, and food in general.27:54 - And it also taught me to kind of like have a backbone and be a leader and you know, stand up for myself in those spaces. And then I think, especially as we started transitioning to work with primarily women and children, that a lot of that went away.35:42 - We are, we are healthy, so let's just keep going. I wasn't gonna let it truly set us back. And so we raised enough money to get a plot for a test farm. 'Cause that's always been really important to us to make sure that we have space where we also do a lot of projects with trees.45:07 - I've always loved, I mean, my dad was an entertainer, so it's like I've always kind of loved that creative side and being able to use that is really fun. Plus, being a nonprofit founder, there were many times in my life where I felt like I was always giving, and I love to give, but at some point, I was like, I need to also like take care of me and do something that fills me up, and creating content was that for me.46:54 - I think I've never really believed in the whole niche down thing. I, I'm multihyphenate, and I fully embrace that. I love being a nonprofit founder and sharing about giving back. I love being a content creator and a model. I love, you know, just being creative in general. So, as my personal brand, I think the number one thing I go for is just being a good person and being authentic and sharing the things that I love and trying to make the world a better, brighter place. If you'd like to learn how to scale impact at your nonprofit organization by more than double in less than half the time, I'd encourage you to sign up for my free 5 day email course at https://nxtstep.io/impact/.
