The L'Oréal Foundation

2019-2021

The L'Oréal Foundation is committed to working alongside women to enable them to express their potential and have a positive impact on society, through two main areas of intervention: scientific research and beauty in solidarity. Since 1998, the L'Oréal-Unesco For Women in Science program has aimed to accelerate the careers of women scientists and to fight against gender inequalities in the world of research. Convinced that beauty contributes to the process of rebuilding oneself, the L'Oréal Foundation helps vulnerable people to improve their self-esteem by giving them access to free beauty and well-being treatments and also promotes access to employment for vulnerable women through excellent training in the beauty professions. In all the countries where it carries out its philanthropic actions and works for the general interest, the L'Oréal Foundation relies on its convictions and the strong values of the L'Oréal Group.

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The Endowment Fund in a few words...

It has the capacity to receive funds exclusively from the private sector from individuals or legal entities whose passions are in line with those of the Institut Henri Poincaré.

The Fund's Board of Directors was chaired by Cédric Villani from its inception until March 7, 2019, when Sylvie Benzoni took over as interim Chair. Vincent Lefieux, representing the Cercle des entreprises partenaires de l'IHP on the Board of Directors, was elected President on May 29, 2019.
Through the Endowment Fund, companies and individuals can support the projects carried out by IHP by making financial, in-kind or skill-based contributions.

Eligible for corporate or income tax reductions, these contributions complement state and local funding of IHP projects.

The founding organizations of the Fund : CNRS, Sorbonne University (formerly UPMC), and three learned societies in mathematics - the Société Mathématique de France (SMF), the SMAI (Société des Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles), the SFdS (Société Française de Statistiques).