Community + Partnerships Agency

Connection creates opportunity

We bring businesses, nonprofits, creators, and communities together, and turn those relationships into real opportunity and lasting impact.

Our heart

“Being part of a community is essential to the human experience. It helps us to feel a sense of belonging, a sense of purpose, and meaning. It helps us to relate with one another and explore what’s most important to us.”

What we do

Three ways we build your community

Every engagement runs on the same three moves. Most brands need all three, and they compound.

Our V stands for shared Vision, Values, and Voices, converging where the three meet.

Align

Strategic relationships and partnerships that create meaningful opportunities for businesses and organizations.

Connect

Bringing brands, people, creators, and communities together through shared interests, experiences, and goals.

Impact

Intentional, purpose-driven initiatives that connect organizations with causes and communities that matter.

Capabilities

Four disciplines, one community

Align, Connect, and Impact are delivered through four practices. They overlap on purpose, because a partnership that does not get marketed, funded, and celebrated is not a partnership.

  • Strategic partnerships
  • Branding & marketing
  • Fundraising
  • PR & events

Our network

Our Expanding Community

We collaborate with purpose-driven organizations, creative partners, and industry leaders who believe meaningful relationships can move ideas, business, and impact forward.

  • Creative Visions Foundation
  • The Shivas Irons Society

Global Impact

Impact without borders

This is where the three pillars meet a cause. Commvnity builds campaigns that give businesses and nonprofit organizations something to do together, then brings creators and communities in behind them.

  • Intentional and purpose-driven campaigns
  • Charitable and cause-marketing initiatives
  • Business and nonprofit alignment
  • Fundraising and awareness campaigns
  • Global storytelling and community activation

Who we are

The people behind COMMVNITY

Community is built by people, not brands. When you reach out, one of us replies.

Jess Weston

Jess Weston

Co-Founder & Director of Operations + Head of Strategy

Jess Weston is a Los Angeles-based co-founder of Commvnity who has spent nearly a decade turning complex partnerships into clear, scalable results, including leading strategy and training across more than 500 LA Unified schools. Guided by equity, belonging, and her experience of losing her brother, Trent, at 23, she has facilitated peer grief groups for six years and designed retreats in Malibu and Boston, creating spaces where people feel safe, seen, and ready to build together.

Maxwell Harlee

Maxwell Harlee

Co-Founder & Head of Community x Partnerships

Maxwell Harlee is a Los Angeles-based co-founder of Commvnity. Working at the intersection of strategic partnerships, campaign creation, and social impact, he brings brands and organizations together to transform purpose-driven ideas into powerful campaigns, connected communities, and lasting change. His experience spans sports and entertainment, hospitality, nonprofit work, and experiential marketing. For more than a decade, he has worked alongside Kathy Eldon and Creative Visions Foundation to build community and drive meaningful impact, grounded in the belief that the most meaningful change begins with human connection. His passion for golf shapes his approach to life and work, drawing on the game’s lessons in patience, presence, resilience, and self-mastery, values he carries into everyday life.

Contact

Let’s build something meaningful

Tell us what you are building and we will find the people, partners, and causes worth building it with.

What brings you here?

No obligation and no automated follow-ups. A real person reads every message.

Prefer email? contact@commvnity.com