ICYMI: LI Woman Grows Her Charity Started From Basement

In case you missed it, here's a story that appeared last week in the Lindenhurst Patch:

LINDENHURST, NY — It's been nearly six years since Lindenhurst native Amanda Munz started her charity, The Fashion Foundation, and in that time she's had to overcome a lot but has been able to help thousands in the process.

Munz has always had an interest in fashion. While attending Lindenhurst High School, she went to a Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) school for part of the day to study fashion merchandising. She began interning with a fashion company at 16-years-old, where she stayed for five years. After graduating high school in 2008 she was accepted to the Fashion Institute of Technology where she got her bachelor's degree in 2012 and went on to get her master's degree in 2014.

During all this time, Munz constantly saw this problem in the fashion industry where they overproduced merchandise. She found that many companies ended up with an abundance of samples that they didn't know what to do with. It was then that she sought to find a solution to this issue.

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