Melvin Made is proud to announce our gift of $15,000 to Blood Cancer United in honor of Chet Czarniak, Lindsay's father! Chet is a 3 time cancer survivor part of which was a fierce battle with Lymphoma. So this one hits close to home and all the more powerful. This fall, Lindsay and our founder, Craig, are celebrating 15 years of marriage. Much like their vows to each other, they remain deeply committed to supporting cancer treatment, research, and care for survivors and their caregivers.
Blood Cancer United, formerly The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, is on a mission to cure blood cancer and improve the quality of life of all patients and their families. How? They fund life-saving blood cancer research around the world, provide free information and support services for patients and their families, and are the voice for those seeking access to quality, affordable, coordinated care.
With your help, BCU have invested more than $2 billion in groundbreaking research supporting many of today's most innovative approaches to treatment—helping those with blood cancer not only survive but also thrive.
By 2040, Blood Cancer United will enable people with blood cancer to gain more than one million years of life. This means more birthdays, more graduations, more cherished moments and memories with family and friends.
Maximizing Their Impact
Education and support: Blood Cancer United is the leading source for free education and support for blood cancer patients and families. Offering personalize, one-on-one support, including helping patients find and enroll in clinical trials.
Policy and advocacy: With their nationwide grassroots network of more than 50,000 active online volunteers, they drive policy changes that accelerate the development of new cancer treatments and breakdown barriers to care.
Research: Blood Cancer United is the largest nonprofit funder of blood cancer research. Supporting over 100 scientist last year alone at the world's most prestigious institutions through research grants.
Melvin Made is rooted in purpose, legacy, and a deep commitment to giving back. Our connection to Children’s Cancer Partners of the Carolinas is profoundly personal. Ryan Melvin proudly serves on the organization’s board, continuing a mission shaped by our own family’s experience. When Ryan’s daughter, Jasmine, was just two years old, she was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer, Ewing’s Sarcoma. Our family traveled across the Carolinas in search of the best care, meeting countless children and families facing similar battles along the way.
Jasmine died just six months after her diagnosis. While her passing devastated our family, it lit a passion for us to help others. This personal connection makes Children’s Cancer Partners of the Carolinas the natural and meaningful first charitable partner for Melvin Made.
Because of you, Melvin Made was able to donate $50,000 to Children's Cancer Partners on the Carolinas. This is just the begining, together we can IGNITE HOPE!
Children’s Cancer Partners serves children and youth battling cancer across the Carolinas, ensuring access to lifesaving pediatric cancer treatments and overcoming all the hidden costs beyond clinical care.
The Reality Families Face:
The problem is bigger than most people realize. Only larger cities have pediatric cancer treatment centers. Distance to cancer care is hard for most families: hours on the road, missed work and wages, childcare for siblings, and the relentless pressure of making treatment decisions while trying to keep life from falling apart. It’s scary, stressful, overwhelming.
Children in rural and low-income households and communities face 3X higher risk of missed or late diagnosis, incomplete treatments, relapse, or even death. These disparities are driven almost entirely by distance-to-care and limited family resources. In other words: geography and money threaten outcomes, and that’s unacceptable.
That’s why Children’s Cancer Partners exists. To our knowledge, no other nonprofit in the country provides our depth of immediate, comprehensive, and continuous support for children and families facing childhood cancer, especially the hidden expenses insurance doesn’t cover. Once a hospital social worker refers a family to CCP, they don’t offer a one-time fix. They stay with them, regardless of income or where they are in the journey, until the child’s 21st birthday.
Their Impact:
When families have CCP's support, treatment stays on track - and they feel relief. They feel supported. They’re not trying to do the impossible alone.
This year, they will serve over 2,800 Carolina families, providing over $1,000,000 for meals and over 2 million miles of travel reimbursements, removing barriers that would otherwise keep care out of reach.
If you’re ready to help a Carolina family keep going, donate today or become a monthly partner. Their work is community-powered. Without government funding, their ability to support every child referred to them depends on charitable gifts, volunteers, corporate partners, and community programs like Kidz In Lids. Your donation ensures children will get the care and cures they need.
With your help, the disparities go away, and the burdens get lighter. Kids get the help their families didn’t know how to find, and a fighting chance against cancer, with all of us beside them.
