REALTOR® Kasia Maslanka cofounded MorningDay Community Solutions to redirect overstock or returned excess merchandise and products from retail businesses to the nonprofits and people who need it. For over 13 years, Kasia and her team have saved nonprofits $9 million in spending and diverted 400 tons of unused products and goods from landfills each year.

Regular shipments to MCS come from retailers such as Amazon, CVS Health, Mattel and Gap Inc. MCS uses its own trucks to pick up from Walmart and other nearby retailers. Those truckloads underscore another mission: diverting tons of perfectly good products that would otherwise be treated as garbage.

About the REALTOR®: Maslanka, a real estate professional from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is brokerassociate at Douglas Elliman and CoFounder and Vice President of MorningDay Community Solutions. For Maslanka, the excessive levels of waste bring to mind her childhood in communistera Poland, a period marked by a scarcity of goods and an entrenched conservation mindset. Maslanka’s natural skills as a real estate professional have benefitted the nonprofit’s success.

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