Love Your Melon is an apparel brand run by college students across the country. Their mission? To give a hat to every child battling cancer in America. The brand was founded in 2012 by two students at the University of St. Thomas, Brian Kelller and Zachary Quinn. It began as a project in their entrepreneurship class and turned into a national success, with campus crews at colleges all over the U.S. On their website Zach states, "We founded the organization while we were sophomores in college. We wanted to help those in need and everything else came together. The hats that we made were popular enough to sell out the first weekend. On December 18th, 2012, we got to go to our first hospital donation event and it was then that we knew how cool this idea was. Seeing the smiles on the kids faces that day was incredible so we kept making the hats."

Through its original buy one, give one program, Love Your Melon has reserved over 45 thousand hats to donate to children battling cancer in the U.S. The hats are donated in person in hospitals by the Love Your Melon college ambassadors, who dress up as superheroes. To make an even larger impact, Love Your Melon partnered with the Pinky Swear Foundation to provide immediate support for children battling cancer and with CureSearch for Children's Cancer to fund childhood cancer research. They launched a new model in which 50 percent of their net proceeds from every product sold will be donated to the Pinky Swear Foundation and CureSearch.

In 2014, Love Your Melon embarked on two nationwide tours to spread its mission. Since then, they have established a network of college students called "Love Your Melon Ambassadors." These ambassadors from colleges across the country are responsible for spreading Love Your Melon's mission to their campus and city. They now have over 9 thousand ambassadors at 575 different schools working to spread their mission and improve the lives of children battling cancer.

Love Your Melon recently launched its team of ambassadors at Loyola Marymount University. To learn more about the LMU Love Your Melon Campus Crew and find out about product releases, you can like their Facebook page and follow them @lmu.lymcrew on Instagram and @lmu_lymcrew on Twitter. To shop the products, visit loveyourmelon.com and make sure to credit the Loyola Marymount University Crew at check out. Rock a Love Your Melon beanie to show your support and help a child in need.