If you are a college student, you have probably seen Love Your Melon products picking up speed on your campus and on social media. You may know exactly what it stands for or you may have no clue, but either way you should consider starting a Love Your Melon Crew on your campus or joining your college's active crew this semester.

Love Your Melon is NOT just another apparel brand. When I first saw the ads about a year ago, I thought the same thing, but then I did my research. Love Your Melon donates HALF of net proceeds equally to Cure Search and The Pinky Swear Foundation. That's not 10%, not 25%, but FIFTY PERCENT. In case you don't know, Cure Search is a non-profit organization that funds and supports targeted and innovative children's cancer research, and The Pinky Swear Foundation eases the financial and emotional impact experienced by families with a child with cancer. That means that with every purchase you are donating money directly to families of children with cancer and research facilities to help end it. That $30 baseball cap just got a whole lot easier to purchase, didn't it?

The impact of Love Your Melon does not end there. All 800 of our college crews work actively to visit children with cancer and brighten their spirits. We do this with household visits, superhero adventures, and hospital visits. There is nothing better than walking into a hospital room on the pediatric floor and seeing a child cry of happiness because their favorite superhero is standing in front of them. When they ask if they can go home with you, your heart melts. When they want to take a picture with you, you put on the biggest smile and let their mother take 600. And when you give them their own Love Your Melon beanie, you can't do anything but feel pride. This is all a part of the normal life of a Love Your Melon ambassador, and there is nothing I would ever take back about the experience.

There are so many people in the world, yes I mean world, that support the Love Your Melon mission, so you will always have someone to talk to about your time with LYM. No matter how busy you will be with your course load this fall, seriously consider creating your own crew. You will find time to create lasting memories with children who may not have very many left, and you will touch the hearts of parents everywhere because for one day they don't have to worry about their child, that's our job.