The  We Cancerve Movement, Inc.

Grace E. G. Callwood, age 18, is the founder and chairwoman of her all-youth board of advisors of the We Cancerve Movement, Inc., a nonprofit organization she founded in 2012 at age seven to bring happiness to homeless, sick and foster youth.  Her nonprofit's programs and initiatives have reached more than 25,000 children to date. 

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She has been awarded more than $155,000 in national and global prizes for her service work, and she’s raised more than three times as much in in-kind and individual cash donations. She helped raised nearly $26,000 for the We Cancerve Pediatric Patient Assistance Fund she created in 2016 at Sinai Hospital. Since 2015, she has granted more than $10,000 in “Make Happiness Happen” and other microgrants to nonprofits that provide direct services that bring joy to homeless, sick and/or foster children including Maryland's Believe in Tomorrow Foundation, Anna's House and Harford Family House.

 

She is the 2019 World of Children honoree, a 2019 CNN Young Wonder and a 2020 Hormel Foods 10 Under 20 Food Hero. Grace is a junior honors student enrolled in the Global Studies International Baccalaureate program at Edgewood High School. She is a member of St. James AME Church-Green Street. She plays the trumpet, French horn and mellophone in her school marching and jazz bands, and enjoys dancing in her church’s liturgical dance ministry and singing with the young adult contemporary choir at her church. 

 

She is the daughter of T’Jae and Theodore Ellis, Jr., and Winston Callwood, and granddaughter to NeAnni Y. Ife.