Despite over 15 years of product management experience under his belt and having achieved an executive title of vice president, Alex Blinov approached the nonprofit Linens N Love to provide consulting and product management services on a volunteer basis. As a youth-run nonprofit, the organization had no capacity to afford Blinov’s technical talent; yet, he has given countless full-time work hours to the organization to help it build the world’s first youth-powered circular economy app that donates discarded hotel linens to animal rescues, homeless shelters, women’s homes and children’s centers.
Linens N Love is a youth-run 501(c)3 nonprofit based in Los Angeles. Every year, hotels discard over 8 billion pounds of linens into landfills due to slight imperfections such as coffee stains or pen marks. Rather than let these linens go to waste, we empower youth volunteers ages 12 – 20 to forge hotel partnerships and donate the linens to animal rescues, women’s homes, animal shelters and children’s centers.
Blinov had long wanted to find a way to make his talent for bringing an app from idea to reality into a way to create big impact. The mission with Linens N Love is about motivating and educating young students to volunteer and deliver linens from hotels to shelters, and it’s a mission that Blinov is proud of and happy to give his time to.
Since then, he has been contributing his Tuesdays – Thursdays, from 9 am – 1 pm, every week without fail to the Linens N Love team.
