Katie Stagliano

In 2008, 9-year-old Katie Stagliano planted a single cabbage in her South Carolina front yard as part of a school project. It grew to be 40 pounds, and fed 275 people in a local soup kitchen. The rest is history. Today, the 17-year-old’s idea has flourished into a movement. Katie’s Krops now consists of 100 gardens all across the country, all maintained by local children of the community. Katie’s Krops is a nonprofit organization aimed at fighting hunger. Its mission is to start and maintain vegetable gardens of all sizes and donate the harvest to help feed those in need.