Our Mission
Grounded in Grace • Grit • God, Acts of Grace Project is a women-centered nonprofit that uses storytelling, community engagement, and empowerment initiatives to amplify the lived experiences of women and mothers, create opportunities for personal and professional growth, and turn their voices into meaningful insights that inform more responsive programs and services.
Our Approach
Through Grace • Grit • God, we believe every woman has the power to turn what she has lived through into purpose, connection, and meaningful action.
GRACE
Grace is how we choose to live and lead.
We meet ourselves and others with understanding, compassion, forgiveness, and love, even when it is difficult. But grace does not mean accepting mistreatment, remaining silent, or staying in places that diminish who we are.
Sometimes grace means extending compassion. Sometimes it means creating boundaries, walking away, and choosing a healthier way forward.
We believe grace becomes most powerful when it moves beyond words and becomes action in how we treat ourselves, one another, and the communities around us.
GRIT
Grit is the courage to keep going, growing, and believing something more is possible.
Life can change us through loss, grief, disappointment, motherhood, health challenges, financial hardship, career transitions, and seasons we never expected to face.
We honor resilience, but we do not believe women should simply be celebrated for how much they can endure.
Sometimes grit means persevering. Sometimes it means walking away and beginning again. And sometimes it means having the courage to create a new path when none seems to exist.
GOD
God is spirit, the faith that grounds us through every season of life, reminding us that our experiences are part of our soul’s evolution and that we belong to something greater than ourselves.
Our faith is not defined by a religious affiliation, title, verse, or place of worship. It is reflected in how we live, how we lead, how we love, how we respond to adversity, and how we use our experiences and gifts in service to others.
We believe that no season lasts forever, that our hardest chapters do not have to become our final ones, and that even through uncertainty, there can still be purpose, hope, and a way forward.
Our Story
Acts of Grace Project was founded by Natalie Leon, an award-winning communications and community engagement professional, mother, entrepreneur, and woman whose understanding of Grace • Grit • God was shaped not only by what she believes, but by what she has lived.
After her father took her mother's life when Natalie was just 14, she faced profound grief, trauma, and loss. Despite this life-changing experience and the absence of a healthy family support system, she put herself through college and went on to build a career spanning more than 20 years in strategic communications and community engagement.
Her journey has also included becoming a mother during the pandemic while experiencing family judgment and isolation, navigating postpartum health complications and multiple surgeries, and facing workplaces and systems where she did not always feel seen, heard, or supported.
Through every chapter, one lesson continued to emerge:
Our experiences can transform us and become a source of purpose.
Acts of Grace Project grew from Natalie's belief that every woman's story holds resilience, hope, and wisdom.
It also grew from her personal and professional experiences and a belief in what becomes possible when systems and society take the time to truly listen to women, understand their experiences, and respond to their needs.
Today, Natalie is bringing women together to help turn that vision into action through storytelling, community engagement, and practical support that creates opportunities for women and mothers and transforms their lived experiences into meaningful insights that can inform more responsive programs and services.
Acts of Grace Project is more than one woman's story. It is a growing community where women can share their experiences, support one another, create opportunities, and help shape a more compassionate and responsive society.
Together, we are creating space for women to live, lead, and move forward with Grace • Grit • God.
WHAT WE DO
STORYTELLING & CONVERSATIONS
We create space for women to share their stories, lived experiences, and wisdom through storytelling, surveys, and meaningful conversations.
By amplifying women's voices, we foster connections and turn their experiences into insights that help communities and organizations better understand and respond to their needs.
COMMUNITY SUPPORT & CONNECTION
We create opportunities for women to connect, share their experiences, and support one another.
Through community engagement and practical support initiatives, we listen to women's stories, ideas, and needs to foster connection, identify opportunities, and turn shared understanding into meaningful action.
We work with community partners, organizations, and local leaders to turn understanding into meaningful action.
By sharing women's lived experiences and insights, we help identify community needs, strengthen connections, and encourage more responsive programs, services, and opportunities that support women, families, and communities.
PARTNERSHIPS & ACTION
How We Create Change
LISTEN
We create spaces where women can speak honestly about their experiences, challenges, hopes, and ideas.
UNDERSTAND
We identify shared experiences, needs, and insights through storytelling, surveys, and community engagement to better understand what women and mothers are navigating.
CONNECT
Through storytelling, conversations, and community experiences, we bring women together to build meaningful connections, share resources, and support one another.
ACT
We turn what we hear and learn into practical support, economic opportunities, partnerships, and actionable insights that help strengthen women and mothers while informing more responsive community programs and services.