Our Mission

Grounded in Grace • Grit • God, Acts of Grace Project is a women-centered nonprofit that uses communications, storytelling, and community engagement to connect women, amplify their lived experiences, and help systems and society better understand and respond to the realities of women and mothers.

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 compassion, understanding, 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 the faith that grounds us through every season of life and reminds us that our lives are part of something greater than ourselves.

Our faith is more than a title, a verse, or a place where we belong. It is reflected in how we live, 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 losing both of her parents at 14, Natalie learned early what it meant to keep moving forward through profound loss and pain. She put herself through college and went on to build a career spanning more than 20 years across communications, entrepreneurship, and community engagement.

Her journey has also included becoming a mother during the pandemic, experiencing family isolation, navigating postpartum health complications and multiple surgeries, and encountering 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 professional and personal experiences and from seeing what becomes possible when organizations and systems take the time to listen to and understand the people they serve.

Acts of Grace is a place where women are reminded that even after life's hardest seasons, we can continue to live and lead with Grace • Grit • God.