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Love Your Melon Celebrates National Superhero Day - April 28, 2023

05/04/2023

At Love Your Melon, children battling cancer are the real superheroes. These warriors must face a larger-than-life villain: can...

LYM x TENSPACE Donates 500 Beanies to Ronald McDonald House of Columbus

05/03/2023

In October, Love Your Melon teamed up with TENSPACE to build a one-of-a-kind pop-up retail experience in Columbus, Ohio. Togeth...

Giving Partner Spotlight: World Child Cancer

02/14/2023

International Childhood Cancer Day is a global collaborative campaign to raise awareness about childhood cancer, and to express...

LOVE YOUR MELON ANNOUNCES 2023 GIVING PARTNERS

01/18/2023

Since 2016, Love Your Melon has gifted more than $9.8 million to support non-profit organizations leading the fight ...

Love Your Melon Sponsors First Virginia Beach Climb for Courage

12/13/2022

After two years, it finally happened! Our non-profit partner, One Summit, held their 19th Climb for Courage Event in Virginia B...

$1.4M+ Given to Masonic Children's Hospital

11/02/2022

On October 19th, the Love Your Melon team arrived at Masonic Children's Hospital, as we have done so many times before. Masonic...

Minnesota Twins x Love Your Melon Game Night

10/10/2022

Love Your Melon’s Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month celebrations continue! On September 27th, we held our highly-anticipated ann...

Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month: Smile Session with Reckless Road

09/30/2022

Love Your Melon’s second Smile Session of Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month was nothing short of a smash hit! On September 9th, ...

Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month: Smile Sessions with Alana Springsteen

09/28/2022

Love Your Melon kicked off Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month with an extra-special Smile Session! On September 1st, we partnered...

Celebrating Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month & 10 Years of Love Your Melon

08/25/2022

September is Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month! At Love Your Melon, we’re dedicated to the fight against pediatric cancer 24/7, ...

Our First Hospital Visit Since 2020

07/26/2022

Over the last two years, hospitals have been closed to visitors due to the pandemic. That meant the Love Your Melon team couldn...

$1 Million Given to the Pinky Swear Foundation!

06/08/2022

We are so excited to announce that with our year-end giving in 2021, we surpassed $1 million given to the Pinky Swear Foundatio...

Meet Shane!

05/09/2022

Shane is a 15 year old patient at Boston Children's Hospital has been diagnosed with AML, also known as Acute Myeloid Leukemia....

5,000+ Beanies Given in All 50 States!

04/28/2022

Happy National Superhero Day! Today, we gave over 5,000 beanies to children and families battling cancer at over 80 children's ...

NATIONAL SUPERHERO DAY 2022

04/25/2022

At Love Your Melon, we celebrate National Superhero Day every year on April 28th to honor children battling cancer, who we call...

$9.4 Million Given

02/21/2022

When Love Your Melon began in 2012, our mission was simple - to give a hat to every child battling cancer. We quickly met that ...

BOGO 2022 FAQ

02/18/2022

Love Your Melon BOGO Day takes place once a year, where all available products are Buy One, Get One Free. BOGO is the best deal...

BUILD YOUR OWN BEANIE STUDIO - NOW OPEN!

11/10/2021

We are very excited to announce that our very own Love Your Melon Build Your Own Beanie (BYOB) Studio is now open at our store ...

LOVE YOUR MELON DAY 2021

10/19/2021

Love Your Melon Day is on October 22nd! It marks our anniversary since we started as a class project in college and reminds us ...

MEET SUPERHERO PARKER

07/01/2021

Parker is one of the many children that have been impacted by our funding through Beat Childhood Cancer, which is a nonprofit o...

NATIONAL SUPERHERO DAY 2021

04/28/2021

Each year on April 28th, we at Love Your Melon celebrate National Superhero Day - a day where we honor our incredible superhero...

EARTH DAY 2021

04/22/2021

Our goal is to run design, production, and fulfillment processes that are as sustainable as possible so that we can always oper...

MEET SUPERHERO JACKSON

03/10/2021

On February 13th, 2018, Jackson began to develop what looked like a burst blood vessel on the left side of his face. A slight d...

LYM BOGO Week 2021 FAQ

03/09/2021

Love Your Melon BOGO Week Love Your Melon BOGO Week takes place once a year, where all available products are Buy One, Get One ...

Meet Rocket 🐶

12/16/2020

2020 has no doubt been an interesting year for everyone. As a long time nonprofit organization we have supported, the M Health ...

Chef Lucas Foods Update

12/16/2020

Chef Lucas Foods is an organization that provides meals and smiles for children and families battling cancer and other life-thr...

LOVE YOUR MELON DAY 2020

10/22/2020

Every year on October 22nd, we celebrate Love Your Melon Day - the anniversary of Love Your Melon and the incredible journey an...

Dawson’s Flight School Update

05/01/2020

Dawson has been a friend of ours for a long time. We took him on a helicopter and plane ride when he was in Minnesota for treat...

Face Mask Collection Restock

04/26/2020

We are restocking the Love Your Melon Face Mask Collection tomorrow, Monday, April 27th, at 10 AM Central Time. All orders fro...

100,000 Face Masks Given

04/23/2020

The first 100,000 Love Your Melon Face Masks have been sent out to hospitals and care facilities covering all 50 states in the ...

Love Your Melon x MN Twins x Faribault Woolen Mills Homer Hanky Masks

04/19/2020

We are teaming up with the Minnesota Twins, Faribault Woolen Mills, Star Tribune, and CUB to convert excess inventory of the 20...

Face Mask Update 4.18.20

04/18/2020

We received an incredible amount of support for our Face Mask Collection launch on Friday, April 10th last week. All styles of ...

Love Your Melon Face Mask Collection

04/08/2020

Earlier this week, we designed a new face mask to not only improve the speed of production and reduce costs but increase the le...

Face Mask Update 4.6.20

04/06/2020

As we went into production for the first 50,000 cotton face masks, we continued to create and sample new mask designs and mater...

Love Your Melon Face Masks

03/27/2020

Our team members have been devoting their time and effort helping healthcare systems by providing ideas and sourcing items loc...

Parent and Family Resources

03/24/2020

We put together a list of our favorite educational programs, apps and resources to help parents and families provide their chil...

Love Your Melon COVID-19 Response

03/18/2020

Our Mission Through product sales, 50% of our net profit is given to nonprofit organizations to fight pediatric cancer. Nothing...

BOGO Day FAQ

03/05/2020

Love Your Melon BOGO DayBOGO Day is our best and biggest deal of the year! The Buy One, Get One promotion will feature the most...

Timberwolves RMHC Visit

02/10/2020

Children and families staying at the Ronald McDonald House near the University of Minnesota’s East Bank Campus received a big s...

Bruins Game Night

12/20/2019

On December 17, 2019, two Boston families had the chance to attend a Bruins Hockey Game through Love Your Melon’s Game Night Pr...

Scheels Giving Event

11/20/2019

This October, Love Your Melon and Scheels partnered together to brighten the days of five families with children battling pedia...

MEET SING ME A STORY

11/15/2019

When Love Your Melon was first created, our mission was to give a beanie to every child fighting pediatric cancer. Over the las...

Meet Love Your Melon’s Game Night Program!

10/16/2019

Love Your Melon Game Nights provide sports fans across the country with custom Love Your Melon hats, raise awareness for pediat...

10 Facts You Should Know About Pediatric Cancer

08/27/2019

Since our founding in 2012, Love Your Melon has been on a mission to fight pediatric cancer. Over the last few years, childhood...

Meet Melon Treats

07/26/2019

Ice cream, summer fun, and something sweet for a good cause: Meet Melon Treats! Love Your Melon is always looking for fun way...

Meet Katie, Emma and Natalee!

04/18/2019

A couple of weeks ago, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Crew members had the opportunity to bring three of our superheroes...

Dina Mishev: World Record Holder

03/11/2019

Dina Mishev of Jackson, Wyoming is not only a Guinness Book of World Record holder for the most uphill feet skied in one day by...

Nat's WinterBall

01/25/2019

Meet Nathalia, our friend and superhero, who has been a part of the Love Your Melon family since her journey began. Nat was di...

Sophia's Surprise Adventure

01/03/2019

Meet Sophia! This six-year-old hero was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia in June of 2017. She has endured months of t...

Averie the Superhero

12/18/2018

Meet Averie, a two-year-old superhero! Averie has been through so much since her diagnosis of neuroblastoma at just 9 months o...

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