As a global company, we have many opportunities for meaningful engagement with social impact causes that matter to our employees, customers, and partners. In places where we work, source, or sell our products, we dedicate resources to address issues focused around three pillars: health, education, and the environment. We make financial, product, matching, and in-kind donations across our company and brands and through The Estée Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation (ELCCF).
We have accelerated our efforts to meaningfully support external organizations and nonprofits advancing racial and social justice, with a focus on our U.S. operations. In 2020, we pledged to give $10M over 3 years to such groups, including NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Equal Justice Initiative, and The Young Women’s Leadership Schools. We successfully surpassed this goal in fiscal 2023 and continue to invest in organizations working to address disparities.
The Estée Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation (ELCCF)
Fueled by our company values and employees’ passions, the mission of the ELCCF is to improve the well-being of our diverse global communities, with equity at the center, and an emphasis on women and girls. We focus our efforts on women’s advancement and girls’ education; racial equity; and communities where we live, work, and source. We make grants to organizations in the United States and globally that align with these focus areas.
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The Estée Lauder Companies' Breast Cancer Campaign
The Estée Lauder Companies' Breast Cancer Campaign
#TimeToEndBreastCancer
Mission:
The Estée Lauder Companies' Breast Cancer Campaign’s mission is to help create a breast cancer-free world for all.
Snapshot:
The Breast Cancer Campaign is The Estée Lauder Companies’ largest corporate social impact program. Together, The Breast Cancer Campaign and The Estée Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation have funded more than $144 million for lifesaving global research, education and medical services.
Funded more than $114 million for medical research through the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF)
Supports more than 60 organizations around the globe
The Estée Lauder Companies' Breast Cancer Campaign
How it works:
The Estée Lauder Companies’ Breast Cancer Campaign unites and inspires people globally in its mission to help create a breast cancer-free world for all. Through the collective actions of our consumers, employees and partners worldwide, The Campaign supports global research, education and medical services.
Founded in 1992 by the late Evelyn H. Lauder with the launch of the iconic Pink Ribbon, The Breast Cancer Campaign is The Estée Lauder Companies’ largest corporate social impact program.
To support the health and rights of people of All Ages, All Races and All Genders.
Overview
M·A·C created VIVA GLAM in 1994 — a line of lipstick to raise awareness and funds for HIV/AIDS. Every cent of the selling price of VIVA GLAM products is donated to organizations that support the health and rights of people of All Ages, All Races, All Genders.
M·A·C VIVA GLAM has raised over $500 million since its inception in 1994, exclusively through the sale of M·A·C VIVA GLAM lip products. Formerly the M·A·C AIDS Fund, VIVA GLAM focuses on healthy futures and equal rights for women, girls, and the LGBTQIA+ communities while maintaining its decades-long support for those living with HIV/AIDS. To date, the sale of VIVA GLAM products has funded more than 1,800 organizations around the globe.
M·A·C employees are committed to supporting the mission of VIVA GLAM through the sale of the product and committing their own time to M·A·C grantees around the world through signature volunteer programs, showcasing the power of community to transform society.
Learn more about M·A·C VIVA GLAM – the Lipstick That Gives Back 100%.
Shining a light on mental health: Jo Malone London and UNICEF working together to support children’s mental health.
Overview:
For more than 10 years, Jo Malone London has been committed to helping shine a light on mental health, focusing on raising awareness and providing support through inspirational charities.
Having begun a partnership with UNICEF in 2022 as part of its wider charitable efforts, from 2023 Jo Malone London has chosen UNICEF, the world’s leading children’s organisation as its global charity partner. UNICEF works in more than 190 countries to reach the children and young people in greatest need. Its mental health and psychosocial support programmes enable more than 47 million children – and their caregivers – globally to access support.
To date Jo Malone London has donated more than £3 million to charities working in mental health.
In 2022 Jo Malone London launched the Shining A Light On Mental Health Foundation. The foundation supports individuals and families affected by mental health problems through dedicated projects with UNICEF. By supporting UNICEF’s work through a thematic fund, Jo Malone London will assist the charity’s mental health programmes — protecting and promoting positive mental health and wellbeing outcomes for children, adolescents and caregivers around the world. The funds will contribute towards a mix of UNICEF’s work, from country programmes to national and global advocacy. These include UNICEF’s Caring for Caregivers initiative, which gives parents and caregivers confidence and skills to support their own and their child’s wellbeing; implementing school programmes that build social-emotional learning and promote wellbeing; enhancing training to build a quality mental health workforce through the EQUIP Programme; and supporting young people to provide peer-to-peer psychological first aid in humanitarian contexts, with I Support My Friends.
From 2023 to 2025, Jo Malone London is committed to raising $3.5 million for UNICEF’s work through the sale of the Charity Candle collection, as well as consumer check-out donations and employee fundraising activities.
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The Estée Lauder Companies' Breast Cancer Campaign
The Estée Lauder Companies' Breast Cancer Campaign
#TimeToEndBreastCancer
Mission:
The Estée Lauder Companies' Breast Cancer Campaign’s mission is to help create a breast cancer-free world for all.
Snapshot:
The Breast Cancer Campaign is The Estée Lauder Companies’ largest corporate social impact program. Together, The Breast Cancer Campaign and The Estée Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation have funded more than $144 million for lifesaving global research, education and medical services.
Funded more than $114 million for medical research through the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF)
Supports more than 60 organizations around the globe
The Estée Lauder Companies' Breast Cancer Campaign
How it works:
The Estée Lauder Companies’ Breast Cancer Campaign unites and inspires people globally in its mission to help create a breast cancer-free world for all. Through the collective actions of our consumers, employees and partners worldwide, The Campaign supports global research, education and medical services.
Founded in 1992 by the late Evelyn H. Lauder with the launch of the iconic Pink Ribbon, The Breast Cancer Campaign is The Estée Lauder Companies’ largest corporate social impact program.
To support the health and rights of people of All Ages, All Races and All Genders.
Overview
M·A·C created VIVA GLAM in 1994 — a line of lipstick to raise awareness and funds for HIV/AIDS. Every cent of the selling price of VIVA GLAM products is donated to organizations that support the health and rights of people of All Ages, All Races, All Genders.
M·A·C VIVA GLAM has raised over $500 million since its inception in 1994, exclusively through the sale of M·A·C VIVA GLAM lip products. Formerly the M·A·C AIDS Fund, VIVA GLAM focuses on healthy futures and equal rights for women, girls, and the LGBTQIA+ communities while maintaining its decades-long support for those living with HIV/AIDS. To date, the sale of VIVA GLAM products has funded more than 1,800 organizations around the globe.
M·A·C employees are committed to supporting the mission of VIVA GLAM through the sale of the product and committing their own time to M·A·C grantees around the world through signature volunteer programs, showcasing the power of community to transform society.
Learn more about M·A·C VIVA GLAM – the Lipstick That Gives Back 100%.
Shining a light on mental health: Jo Malone London and UNICEF working together to support children’s mental health.
Overview:
For more than 10 years, Jo Malone London has been committed to helping shine a light on mental health, focusing on raising awareness and providing support through inspirational charities.
Having begun a partnership with UNICEF in 2022 as part of its wider charitable efforts, from 2023 Jo Malone London has chosen UNICEF, the world’s leading children’s organisation as its global charity partner. UNICEF works in more than 190 countries to reach the children and young people in greatest need. Its mental health and psychosocial support programmes enable more than 47 million children – and their caregivers – globally to access support.
To date Jo Malone London has donated more than £3 million to charities working in mental health.
In 2022 Jo Malone London launched the Shining A Light On Mental Health Foundation. The foundation supports individuals and families affected by mental health problems through dedicated projects with UNICEF. By supporting UNICEF’s work through a thematic fund, Jo Malone London will assist the charity’s mental health programmes — protecting and promoting positive mental health and wellbeing outcomes for children, adolescents and caregivers around the world. The funds will contribute towards a mix of UNICEF’s work, from country programmes to national and global advocacy. These include UNICEF’s Caring for Caregivers initiative, which gives parents and caregivers confidence and skills to support their own and their child’s wellbeing; implementing school programmes that build social-emotional learning and promote wellbeing; enhancing training to build a quality mental health workforce through the EQUIP Programme; and supporting young people to provide peer-to-peer psychological first aid in humanitarian contexts, with I Support My Friends.
From 2023 to 2025, Jo Malone London is committed to raising $3.5 million for UNICEF’s work through the sale of the Charity Candle collection, as well as consumer check-out donations and employee fundraising activities.
Introducing: The Estée Lauder Emerging Leaders Fund
Mission:
Building a generation of emerging leaders who redefine leadership.
Overview:
The Estée Lauder Emerging Leaders Fund mission is to redefine leadership by supporting a new generation of emerging leaders and challenging the gender stereotypes present in current expectations of leadership. The Fund's efforts focus on 3 pillars:
IMMERSIVE LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCES: To help women from all walks of life self-identify as leaders
MENTORSHIP & COMMUNITY-BUILDING: To cultivate supportive communities that sustain women’s progress
ADVOCACY: To change the conversation about leadership and challenge perceptions of what it means to be a leader
The Estée Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation's Girls' Education Initiative
Objective:
To enhance girls’ access to quality education– particularly adolescent girls and young women –and provide the skills they need to bring about lasting change for themselves and their communities, while supporting them to grow into leadership roles as women.
Why Girls’ Education?:
Educating a girl creates ripple effects that can benefit an entire community. Evidence increasingly demonstrates that more educated women tend to be healthier, participate more in the formal labor market, earn more income, and contribute to increases in economic growth. Educating girls and women leads to increased health and educational attainment across generations. Nevertheless, gaps still remain.1 As of 2019, only 50% of countries had reached gender parity in lower secondary school education enrollment and only 25% in upper secondary school.2 Additionally, conflict and disasters further exasperate gender disparity in education, with the likelihood of girls not attending school in conflict-affected countries being 2.5 times more compared to girls in other areas.3
Overview:
To help address this global need, The Estée Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation (ELCCF) launched programming in fiscal year 2016, providing corporate funds and resources to support education programs in more than 13 countries. Today, ELCCF’s Girls’ Education Initiative supports organizations working to enhance girls’ access to quality education and provide the skills they need to bring about lasting change for themselves and their communities, while giving them the support needed to grow into leadership roles as women.
The Initiative takes a comprehensive approach and supports groups that focus not only on education but also health, counseling, tutoring, extracurricular activities, social and family support, life-skills training, entrepreneurial skills-building and mentorship. Some of this support includes a focus on underserved communities and at-risk populations. The program also seeks to reach boys alongside girls, recognizing that to change social norms and ensure equitable outcomes for girls, boys must also be reached.
The Company remains committed to expanding and deepening ELCCF’s Initiative for Girls’ Education over time, to provide more young women with the life and leadership skills necessary to help them reach their full potential.
For over 20 years, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics has worked hard to help empower women and girls beyond makeup. By partnering with non-profit organizations that fight for gender equality through education, the Pretty Powerful Fund continues to support the creation of new possibilities around the world.
Learn more about Bobbi Brown Cosmetics Pretty Powerful.
Introducing: The Estée Lauder Emerging Leaders Fund
Mission:
Building a generation of emerging leaders who redefine leadership.
Overview:
The Estée Lauder Emerging Leaders Fund mission is to redefine leadership by supporting a new generation of emerging leaders and challenging the gender stereotypes present in current expectations of leadership. The Fund's efforts focus on 3 pillars:
IMMERSIVE LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCES: To help women from all walks of life self-identify as leaders
MENTORSHIP & COMMUNITY-BUILDING: To cultivate supportive communities that sustain women’s progress
ADVOCACY: To change the conversation about leadership and challenge perceptions of what it means to be a leader
The Estée Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation's Girls' Education Initiative
Objective:
To enhance girls’ access to quality education– particularly adolescent girls and young women –and provide the skills they need to bring about lasting change for themselves and their communities, while supporting them to grow into leadership roles as women.
Why Girls’ Education?:
Educating a girl creates ripple effects that can benefit an entire community. Evidence increasingly demonstrates that more educated women tend to be healthier, participate more in the formal labor market, earn more income, and contribute to increases in economic growth. Educating girls and women leads to increased health and educational attainment across generations. Nevertheless, gaps still remain.1 As of 2019, only 50% of countries had reached gender parity in lower secondary school education enrollment and only 25% in upper secondary school.2 Additionally, conflict and disasters further exasperate gender disparity in education, with the likelihood of girls not attending school in conflict-affected countries being 2.5 times more compared to girls in other areas.3
Overview:
To help address this global need, The Estée Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation (ELCCF) launched programming in fiscal year 2016, providing corporate funds and resources to support education programs in more than 13 countries. Today, ELCCF’s Girls’ Education Initiative supports organizations working to enhance girls’ access to quality education and provide the skills they need to bring about lasting change for themselves and their communities, while giving them the support needed to grow into leadership roles as women.
The Initiative takes a comprehensive approach and supports groups that focus not only on education but also health, counseling, tutoring, extracurricular activities, social and family support, life-skills training, entrepreneurial skills-building and mentorship. Some of this support includes a focus on underserved communities and at-risk populations. The program also seeks to reach boys alongside girls, recognizing that to change social norms and ensure equitable outcomes for girls, boys must also be reached.
The Company remains committed to expanding and deepening ELCCF’s Initiative for Girls’ Education over time, to provide more young women with the life and leadership skills necessary to help them reach their full potential.
For over 20 years, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics has worked hard to help empower women and girls beyond makeup. By partnering with non-profit organizations that fight for gender equality through education, the Pretty Powerful Fund continues to support the creation of new possibilities around the world.
Learn more about Bobbi Brown Cosmetics Pretty Powerful.
Our mission at Aveda is to care for the world we live in, from the products we make to the ways in which we give back to society. At Aveda, we strive to set an example for environmental leadership and responsibility, not just in the world of beauty, but around the world.
Overview:
One of the many ways we live our Aveda Mission is through our annual giving campaign, Earth Month.
Every April, since 1999, Aveda’s employees, Salons and Spas, Institutes, Experience Centers, and customers join together to raise funds to help provide and protect clean water at home and around the world. To date, we have raised over $72M for our nonprofit partners including our global partner, charity: water. These funds have done a world of good providing over 1.5 million people with clean and safe water and protecting thousands of watersheds in the communities where we work and live.
Aveda raises money for Earth Month in two ways: through limited-edition product sales and promotions, and through fundraising events including Appointments for Clean Water and Walks for Water.
Since our founding in 1990, we have been guided by respect for the well-being of people and our planet. For over a decade, we have partnered with various non-profit organizations to plant trees around the world to aid reforestation projects and help fight climate change.
Through the creation of Origins’ Green The PlanetTM Fund and support from our longstanding global nonprofit partner One Tree Planted, we are growing our commitment -- one tree at a time – through planting initiatives that benefit local communities by restoring ecosystems, while supporting the work of environmental justice organizations to trigger real, meaning change for the lives of present and generations to come.
Overview:
In 2023, Origins Green The PlantTM Fund sponsored One Tree Planted’s portfolio of 27 high-impact urban forestry projects across 24 major U.S. cities – nearly doubling the size of the brand’s project planting efforts from 2022. Origins also participated in the planting and care for trees in international urban areas across Asia and Europe (inclusive of key markets such as Malaysia, Thailand, Israel, and Germany) in an effort to further expand the brand’s urban forestry impact across the globe.
With its partners, Green The PlanetTM has planted and cared for more than 2.3 million trees since 2009 (and counting)! – That is equivalent to more than 175,000 trees per year, 480 trees per day, and 20 trees per hour.
La Mer is committed to supporting the protection of ocean habitats for generations to come.
Overview:
The sea has always enchanted us, inspired us and given us hope. To honor our living muse, we are committed to supporting ocean conservation projects around the world. La Mer continues our mission of helping safeguard marine protected areas by giving charitable donations through the La Mer Blue Heart Oceans Fund and awareness-raising initiatives, in hopes to ensure future flourishing seas for generations to come.
Each year, La Mer team members around the world lead an effort to clean their local shores and beaches. In the journey to protect the living connection we all have to the ocean, we know that even small acts of participation can make a huge impact.
Our mission at Aveda is to care for the world we live in, from the products we make to the ways in which we give back to society. At Aveda, we strive to set an example for environmental leadership and responsibility, not just in the world of beauty, but around the world.
Overview:
One of the many ways we live our Aveda Mission is through our annual giving campaign, Earth Month.
Every April, since 1999, Aveda’s employees, Salons and Spas, Institutes, Experience Centers, and customers join together to raise funds to help provide and protect clean water at home and around the world. To date, we have raised over $72M for our nonprofit partners including our global partner, charity: water. These funds have done a world of good providing over 1.5 million people with clean and safe water and protecting thousands of watersheds in the communities where we work and live.
Aveda raises money for Earth Month in two ways: through limited-edition product sales and promotions, and through fundraising events including Appointments for Clean Water and Walks for Water.
Since our founding in 1990, we have been guided by respect for the well-being of people and our planet. For over a decade, we have partnered with various non-profit organizations to plant trees around the world to aid reforestation projects and help fight climate change.
Through the creation of Origins’ Green The PlanetTM Fund and support from our longstanding global nonprofit partner One Tree Planted, we are growing our commitment -- one tree at a time – through planting initiatives that benefit local communities by restoring ecosystems, while supporting the work of environmental justice organizations to trigger real, meaning change for the lives of present and generations to come.
Overview:
In 2023, Origins Green The PlantTM Fund sponsored One Tree Planted’s portfolio of 27 high-impact urban forestry projects across 24 major U.S. cities – nearly doubling the size of the brand’s project planting efforts from 2022. Origins also participated in the planting and care for trees in international urban areas across Asia and Europe (inclusive of key markets such as Malaysia, Thailand, Israel, and Germany) in an effort to further expand the brand’s urban forestry impact across the globe.
With its partners, Green The PlanetTM has planted and cared for more than 2.3 million trees since 2009 (and counting)! – That is equivalent to more than 175,000 trees per year, 480 trees per day, and 20 trees per hour.
La Mer is committed to supporting the protection of ocean habitats for generations to come.
Overview:
The sea has always enchanted us, inspired us and given us hope. To honor our living muse, we are committed to supporting ocean conservation projects around the world. La Mer continues our mission of helping safeguard marine protected areas by giving charitable donations through the La Mer Blue Heart Oceans Fund and awareness-raising initiatives, in hopes to ensure future flourishing seas for generations to come.
Each year, La Mer team members around the world lead an effort to clean their local shores and beaches. In the journey to protect the living connection we all have to the ocean, we know that even small acts of participation can make a huge impact.
The Young Women’s Leadership Schools and ELC: Advancing Possibilities for Girls
For nearly 20 years, ELC and its Charitable Foundation have partnered with Student Leadership Network and The Young Women's Leadership Schools to help girls and gender-expansive youth from diverse and underserved communities access the skills and resources they need for a lifetime of success — from college and career readiness to leadership development and mental wellness.
Beautifully United to Help End Breast Cancer
Our mission to help create a breast cancer-free world for all is stronger than ever as we continue to fund global research, education,and medical services.
Celebrating 25 years of M·A·C VIVA GLAM
M·A·C Cosmetics’ philanthropic arm, the M·A·C VIVA GLAM Fund, has raised over $500 million since its inception in 1994
The Estée Lauder Emerging Leaders Fund
The Estée Lauder Emerging Leaders Fund, a social impact initiative committed to helping support a new generation of emerging women leaders and challenging the gender stereotypes present in today’s representations of leadership. The EL Emerging Leaders Fund will help support organizations that provide opportunities for leadership development, cultivate supportive communities, and advocate for emerging leaders who have a daring vision for change. Because we believe with more voice, more courage, and more compassion, more extraordinary leaders are made.
La Mer Blue Heart
La Mer is committed to supporting the protection of ocean habitats for generations to come. A secret kingdom that belongs to future generations, the sea has always enchanted the brand. See it through the eyes of a child, and join in the journey to help protect this place of mystery, where wonderment thrives and life is renewed.
Aveda Earth Month
Aveda, together with charity: water, will help bring clean water to people in developing nations from Earth Month 2019 and beyond.
