Harford County’s youth-led nonprofit the We Cancerve Movement Inc has a signature ice cream named in their honor to help raise money for the We Cancerve Pediatric Patient Assistance Fund at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. Broom's Bloom Dairy’s key lime pie ice cream pays homage to the organization’s founder, Grace Callwood, 19, who formed the organization at age seven shortly after she was diagnosed with Stage IV lymphoblastic lymphoma, a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma's cancer ribbon color is lime green.
Callwood started the patient assistance fund with $5,000 at age 11, with a portion of prize money she won after being named one of the youngest Peace First Fellows in 2015. To date, We Cancerve’s team – rotating members all between the ages of eight and 18 – have raised more than $26,000 for the fund. To date, the fund has provided 500 parking passes, 245 Uber and Lyft rides, 805 cafeteria vouchers, 900 grocery store gift cards and more to families of pediatric cancer patients at Sinai.
A portion of every unit of the key lime flavor ice cream purchased – wherever Broom’s Bloom is sold - between August 1 and September 30, 2024 will go directly to the We Cancerve Fund at Sinai. Callwood received cancer treatment at Sinai from 2011 to 2014. After five years without a relapse, she was declared cured in February 2019.
A 2016 Nickelodeon HALO Award winner, 2019 CNN Young Wonder and 2019 World of Children Youth Honoree, she shared her story on the Jennifer Hudson Show last May.
Today, Callwood is a rising college sophomore. Her nonprofit is led by 16-year-old Zachary Gwiazda, of Bel Air High School. Callwood handpicked him as her successor because of his undeniable leadership skills, passion for community service, and overall amazing personality.
