Locks of Love: How One Mother Built a Hair Donation Nonprofit
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, Madonna Coffman had already experienced hair loss once as a young woman. Years later, when her four-year-old daughter began losing her hair, she didn’t need a diagnosis to know what was coming or how difficult it would be. What she couldn’t find was something designed for a child trying to live a normal life, so she set out to create it herself. That effort became Locks of Love.
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| 0:47.4 | If you've never donated your hair to the nonprofit charity, |
| 0:50.8 | Locks of Love, it's likely you know someone who has. |
| 0:59.0 | Locks of Love is based out of West Palm Beach, Florida, and is known internationally for providing hair prostheses to children and young adults suffering from hair loss. |
| 1:05.0 | Do you know the reason behind why Lox of Love was started? |
| 1:08.0 | Here to tell the story as the founder, Madonna Kaufman. |
| 1:13.6 | When I was in my early 20s, I was an open heart nurse at the time in Louisville, Kentucky, |
| 1:19.6 | and I experienced hair loss. The known treatment at that time was steroid injections |
| 1:26.6 | in your scalp. |
| 1:28.3 | I got the treatment. |
| 1:30.3 | My hair kind of came and went off and on for nine years. |
| 1:36.3 | And then in 1997-98, my daughter, that was four and a half years old, |
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