The We Cancerve Movement, Inc.
Bringing swift solutions to children in sad situations because happiness shouldn't have to wait!
Natalie Deitz
"I like community service because I get to help people who need it most. It makes me feel good knowing that I helped people that day. I also like community service because I get to make a place better than when I first came."
-- Natalie Deitz, 13
Hobbies: basketball, crafting, painting and creating/building little objects, hiking, swimming, exploring and literally climbing anything she can.
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Fun Facts: Natalie was awarded the 2024 Hormel 10 Under 20 Food Hero award for her dedication and hard work towards helping those in my community fighting food insecurity. She was also inducted into the National Junior Honors Society during middle school and she's a member of the year-round travel AAU basketball.
Natalie Deitz is a 13-year-old 8th grader. She is a member of the all-youth board of advisors of the We Cancerve Movement, Inc., a nonprofit that brings happiness to children experiencing homelessness, catastrophic illness and food insecurity, who are in foster care group homes and orphanages, and to unaccompanied minors.
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When Natalie was just an infant, she learned how to fight! She was born with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia, which resulted in number of organs being situated near her heart. With two surgeries before age four, and several months at a feeding clinic to learn to eat, Natalie persevered and is, today, a healthy teen! This is why she says she's passionate about helping children who are critically ill.
As project leader for We Cancerve's Scentsational in 2024, she was instrumental in garnering thousands of individual personal care items that she were included in discreet toiletry kits for 2oo+ local children in need. She also serves the portfolio lead for We Cancerve's Little Libraries, which are established near the main office of low-income housing in Edgewood and Owings Mill, MD. In 2023, she organized and led a night of fun for children fighting cancer during a Cool Kids Campaign gathering. Through her network, she was able to secure 100 full-size boxes of cereal; a magnet for other donations that resulted in 100 bags of breakfast foods donated to area school children enrolled in schools with at least 70% of its population living below the poverty line. In 2024, she was named a Hormel Foods 10 Under 20 Food Hero for her work to reduce food insecurity in youth. Her award came with a $5,000 grant to We Cancerve. Also during her time as a member of the board of advisors, she contributed to We Cancerve being named the Baltimore Orioles' 2024 Birdland Community Hero Award winner, which came with a $5,000 grant, and a 2024 Elevate Prize GET LOUD Award winner, which came with a $10,000 grant.
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A regular cast member of the children's TV Show On the Move with We Cancerve. she hosted segments about the award-winning nonprofit's comic book kit project, and dinner parties at the Ronald McDonald House of Baltimore. She also served as a camp counselor during a special Camp Happy event at the Ronald McDonald House of Baltimore. Natalie also regularly delivers donations to children in domestic violence safe houses and to one of the largest residential homeless shelters in Baltimore County. At the start of the 2024 school year, she co-led a We Cancerve Mobile School Supplies project, delivering a shop-on-the-spot cart of free, new school supplies to hospitalized children in their overnight rooms and in the oncology infusion center.
In 2023, she was selected to represent We Cancerve as a Keynote Speaker for Harford County’s 250th birthday.
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