{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Scaling Impact","title":"From Teen Artist to Nonprofit Founder: Gracie’s Journey Battling Hunger & Growing Hope","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2984,"description":"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...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/66Z-JkzyaQve51NguBCteHZdh4LBbMmJS4LNGtPEwTw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzMzOTY0LzE2NjI3/MjAyMzQtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}