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Corporate Partnerships

Partner With Us: The Shortest Path to Impact

From a single product donation to a year-round campaign, we build partnerships around your goals and our community – that make a true impact on the lupus community.

Cuisine For A Cause gala in the purple-lit Vibiana ballroom Red carpet interview at a Lupus LA step-and-repeat with partner logos Speaker presenting at a Lupus LA patient conference

1B+Annual media impressions
3,000+Hours of personalized virtual 1:1 patient support every year
4.6MPatients reached since 2020
204Countries across 5 continents

Who Partners With Us

Every partnership is custom-built for maximum impact.

Consumer & Entertainment Brands

Reach an engaged, diverse audience through events, cause campaigns, and product partnerships.

Sponsorships, product donations & cause marketing ›

Pharma, Biotech & Healthcare

Connect authentically with the lupus patient community through branded education, live expert sessions, and clinical trial awareness.

Patient education & research partnerships ›

Small Businesses

Host a giveback event, donate products or services, and gain visibility with a national lupus community that supports the businesses that support them.

Community & in-kind partnerships ›

Meet Our Audience

Connect Meaningfully With Our Audience

Lupus disproportionately affects women – about 9 in 10 patients – and communities of color. Our audience reflects the community we serve.

86%Women

58.4% of our audience is aged 25-44.

41K+Social followers

52K+ annual engagements and 1.6M annual impressions – up 21% in 2025.

44%Email open rate

More than double the nonprofit industry average, across 5,500+ active subscribers.

1M+Podcast views & streams

Your Story Our Fight® reaches listeners in 56 countries and 943 U.S. cities.

20K+Direct messages a year

Patients and families reach out to Lupus LA directly – a deeply engaged, high-trust community.

5Continents reached

A truly global digital community built since 2020.

29.6% Latin/Hispanic 25.9% White 18.5% Black/African American 18.5% Asian

Ways to Partner

Ways your company can give

Six ways to plug in – each one custom-built with our team around your goals, your brand, and our community.

Full Partnerships

Comprehensive, custom relationships crafted by our team – combine event sponsorship, product donations, cause campaigns, patient education, podcast and digital presence in whatever mix fits your brand.

Sponsor a signature event while donating products for patient giveaways. Underwrite a Live Expert Session, then run a giveback campaign during Lupus Awareness Month. However your company wants to show up, we’ll build the blueprint together – and support the lupus community from every angle.

Build a Full Partnership ›

Event Sponsorships

  • Signature fundraisers – celebrity-driven events like Cuisine For A Cause at Vibiana (300+ attendees; coverage in Variety, KTLA & The Hollywood Reporter).
  • Patient conferences – like our UCLA Patient Conference: 125+ in-person registrations, 3,500+ online replay viewers.
  • Global symposiums and community events.

Sponsorships include logo placement, media exposure, on-site activation, and honoree or speaking opportunities.

Sponsor an Event ›

Product Donations, Giveaways & In-Kind

  • Auction & raffle items that raise funds directly – American Airlines’ donated miles supported patient giveaways and auction fundraising.
  • Patient giveaways for conferences, community events, and support programs.
  • Event in-kind support – catering, venues, printing, services. Paint & Sip Studio LA’s art kits made #PowerOfArt accessible to hundreds of patients for Art Therapy.

In-kind partners receive recognition across Lupus LA’s communication channels – exposure to 41,000+ social followers and 1.5M – 2M community members reached annually.

Donate Products or Services ›

Cause Marketing & Giveback Campaigns

Launch a percentage-of-sales product, a giveback retail event, or a co-branded campaign – especially during Lupus Awareness Month each May, when lupus support takes center stage.

Pitch Us a Campaign ›

Patient Education & Research Partnerships

  • Live Expert Education Series – Parexel’s branded clinical-trial series left 87.1% of surveyed participants more comfortable asking their doctor about trials.
  • Clinical trial awareness – targeted outreach for USC Keck generated 65+ qualified participant inquiries within one month.
  • Conference sponsorship – like Aurinia’s support of our Patient Conferences, which brought invaluable programming to hundreds of live attendees, and thousands streaming.

All programming lives permanently on our YouTube channel and custom LupusLA.org landing pages – your investment keeps working.

Discuss an Education Partnership ›

Patient Impact

What your partnership makes possible

From Lupus LA’s 2026 patient community survey – the real, measured difference our programs make:

95%

of support group participants say Lupus LA helped them feel less alone in their lupus journey

97.8%

feel more confident asking questions at medical appointments after a Live Expert Session or Lupus LA conference

90%

say Emergency Grants for basic needs like rent and medication give them a vital sense of security and reduce daily stress

87.2%

have made a lifestyle change, requested a test, or adjusted their care plan after a Lupus LA Expert Session

89.4%

see Lupus LA as a partner in their ability to live a full life despite their diagnosis

92.9%

felt empowered to speak more openly about their diagnosis with family, friends, or employers after hearing stories through the Your Story Our Fight® podcast or Patient Advocacy Panel

Lupus LA’s patient services are free – and corporate partnerships keep them that way.

In Good Company

A sampling of our partners

GSK Bristol Myers Squibb AstraZeneca Pfizer Genentech Paramount Pictures American Airlines Cedars-Sinai UCLA Health UCI Health Children's Hospital Los Angeles Johnny Carson Foundation Parexel Aurinia Gemini Beauty Kezar Life Sciences Fate Therapeutics PhRMA

Lupus LA has spent the last 25 years supporting patient services, medical research and championing Lupus advocacy. We know because we’ve benefitted from their tireless work ourselves.

– Jay Ireland, Owner of Clover Travel & Michael Ireland, President of Production, Paramount Pictures

Working with the Lupus LA team was a true pleasure from start to finish… making the evening as meaningful as it was beautifully executed.

– Jasmine Pezeshki, Senior Account Executive, Talent @ R&CPMK

A unique opportunity to reconnect with the lupus community and discuss issues that may not be on our radar as health care providers or pharma representatives, but are important for the patients.

– Dr. Andreas Reiff, Chief Medical Officer @ Parexel

As Seen On & In

Los Angeles Times Variety The Hollywood Reporter People Billboard E! News Essence HuffPost Associated Press Yahoo Entertainment Extra Page Six Us Weekly Modern Luxury Angeleno

…plus KTLA 5 and more – 1B+ annual media impressions through branded events and celebrity ambassadors.

Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Toni Braxton, Nick Cannon, Paula Abdul, Howie Dorough, Cedric the Entertainer & more have stood with Lupus LA.

Case Studies

Brands Making A Difference With Us

Cuisine For A Cause event floor at Vibiana

Paramount Pictures

Cuisine For A Cause · 2025

An exclusive fundraising evening in Downtown LA pairing celebrated chefs with Lupus LA’s medical and advocacy leaders – with national media coverage.

300+Attendees
Top-Tier Media Coverage

Variety The Hollywood Reporter + KTLA & more!

Patient watching a Live Expert education session on a laptop

Parexel

Live Expert Education Series

A branded clinical-trial education series broadcast across our channels, living permanently on YouTube and a custom landing page.

87.1%Patients became more comfortable discussing trials
69.4%Of patients said they were more likely to participate

Celebrity guests shooting baskets at the #MBJAM patient community event

American Airlines

#MBJAM with Michael B. Jordan

A patient community day bringing 85+ lupus patients and families together – with donated miles powering giveaways and auction fundraising.

1MMiles donated
85+Patient families hosted

Now booking Lupus Awareness Month

May campaign commitments close early! Reserve your co-branded campaign, giveback event, or corporate gift for Lupus Awareness Month early.

Reserve a May Campaign ›

Let’s Talk

Let’s build something that matters

Every partnership starts with a conversation. Tell us about your brand and goals, and our team will connect with you to maximize your impact.