Calloway, UNCF Pitch in to Aid Emancipated Youth - Higher Education: t was engrained in Vanessa Bell Calloway from the beginning: If you have, you give. A mother who stayed active in her community had the eyes of a young Calloway on her at all times, listening, taking in her philanthropy. It was all about her community, and as Calloway has matured into a successful actress, that sense has never left her.
“I was always brought up in a household that it didn’t matter how much you had, you had to donate your time, your services,” Calloway says.
It was her work in the community that brought Calloway into an alliance with the United Negro College Fund. UNCF continued to water the seed Calloway’s mother planted in her as a child and gave her the sense of urgency needed to make a change in someone else’s life. That change came in the form of Calloway’s foster daughter, Jhamasa Noel Lewis-Adams.
