MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 23, 2026 — Love Your Melon (LYM) and Oliver Patch Project (OPP) are proud to announce a partnership grounded in shared purpose, love and support. Together, the organizations are launching a beanie-and-patch capsule collection featuring Love Your Melon beanies with custom Oliver Patch Project patches—uniting two missions dedicated to uplifting children and teens facing cancer.
The LYM x OPP collaborative beanies honor resilience, creativity, and community—each patch serving as a reminder to kids facing the hardest battles that they’re never alone. Through Love Your Melon’s Buy One, Give One model, every beanie purchased helps provide a donated beanie to a child battling cancer.”LYM has existed to bring comfort, confidence and hope to kids fighting cancer, helping them to feel not alone.” said Zachary Quinn, Founder of LYM. “After buying LYM back last year, we’ve returned to our founding mission, our Buy One, Give One Program. Partnering with Oliver Patch Project represents everything this brand stands for.”
Launching Jan. 23, this capsule collection is a full-circle moment inspired by Oliver’s leukemia journey. In 2021, while Oliver was being treated for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, a LYM beanie from a care package brought comfort and hope when it mattered most. That moment stayed with him, and he later told his parents, Brian Burkhardt and Trisha Brookbank, “I want to give back to kids battling cancer like me”—inspiring the creation of the Oliver Patch Project. Five years later, this collaboration continues that mission by combining patches and beanies to support cancer warriors and turn warmth into lasting impact.
“Today, Oliver is thriving in his teens,” said Oliver’s parents. “Our family started this project because we know how essential support and community is during treatment, and we want every family to feel supported every step of the way. Our patches are so much more than pieces of material — they reinforce hope, ease loneliness and help rebuild confidence. Each one represents support, compassion and strength: a token of love and a proud symbol of our Cancer Warriors. Love Your Melon showed up for our son when it mattered most, and coming full circle to partner with them is deeply personal and incredibly meaningful.”
The LYM x OPP hats extend the mission further, bringing comfort, community and storytelling to children and families navigating pediatric cancer. For more information, to purchase a hat, or to share a story, visit loveyourmelon.com.