10/14/2026
Thank you to the L’Oréal team for welcoming us to their HQ during Climate Week this year for a discussion about the power of purpose-driven partnerships! 💛
Our Chief Program + Operating Officer, Clare Winterton, joined SOPHIA 菲 LI of STEWARD Media and Dawn Rodney of the National Park Foundation National Park Foundation to explore how companies and brands can build strategic collaborations for social impact, community empowerment, and climate resilience, and what we can all learn from nature along the way.
Our partnership with L'Oréal Groupe began three years ago in Miami, where the L’Oréal Foundation met our grantee partners The Smile Trust, WeCount!’s Qué Calor! campaign, and Catalyst Miami: Advocacy, Services & Events in the communities where they work. Instead of arriving with a predetermined program, L’Oréal listened and learned about what communities needed. From there, we co-created a three-year partnership supporting women-led climate resilience in frontline communities across the U.S., from preparing for climate disasters before they hit to responding and rebuilding after.
So many times, these collaborations fail when corporates infiltrate communities with a solution and ask them to fit into it, without actually understanding what that neighborhood needs. L’Oréal partnered with us to approach this in a different way. One that co-creates with communities. One that recognizes community leaders already have a vision of what they need and how to create it, and shows up as their support and partner in bringing that vision to life.
