"When I was in elementary school, I remember talking with a friend about volunteering, and she mentioned that she had never volunteered before. Curious, I asked other classmates and discovered that many of them had never volunteered either. I wanted to change that. I came up with an idea that I called 9 Small Acts of Kindness: one volunteer project each month at school. My goal was simple: to help other kids give back. I shared the idea with our principal and rallied as many students as I could. What started as one project in a small second-grade classroom eventually grew to include my whole school and other schools in our community. The success of 9 Small Acts of Kindness sparked something even bigger. In January 2012, my sister and I officially launched Small Acts Big Change, an organization and movement that has shaped my life ever since."

~ Gracie Dundee, Co-founder