• Who We Are

    Partnerships For Change® (PFC) is dedicated to the promotion of sustainable development through direct humanitarian action, transforming social and economic conditions of underserved communities, globally. READ MORE

  • Empowering Women

    The Women’s Empowerment Center was launched to reduce poverty, prevent prostitution, human trafficking, slavery, crime, violence, drug abuse and the spread of water borne illness. READ MORE

  • Empowering Spiritual Entrepreneurs

    Partnerships For Change® is honored to partner with Ingrid Jordt and Bharat Rana of the Royal Thimpu College to launch the Bhutan National Heritage Foundation,promoting the preservation and restoration of the Bhutanese culture, architecture and parks. READ MORE

  • Jaipur Foot

    The Jaipur Foot has proven to be a remarkable triumph in the history of prosthetic feet due to the speed at which a limb can be constructed as well as the low cost of under $50 to produce each device. Recipients receive his or her Jaipur Foot free of charge. READ MORE

  • Accelerating Environmental, Economy

    Since 1990 Partnerships For Change® (PFC) has promoted social and economictransformation through direct humanitarian action and sustainable development. READ MORE

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Honorable But Broken - EMS in Crisis

Partnerships For Change partnered on a documentary about the broken EMS system. Narrated by Sarah Jessica Parker, directed and produced by Bryony Gilbey (formerly 60 Minutes and ABC), and co-produced by Richard Diefenbach (formerly CBS, ABC, and FOX).

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Dr. Joycelyn Elders - From The Cotton Fields to the White House

The Clinton Library honors Dr. Joycelyn Elders on her 90th birthday. Learn more about the film and the celebration, or donate to the documentary by clicking on the button below.  

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Partnerships For Change an XPRIZE Semi Finalist

Partnerships For Change made it to the semi-finals at XPRIZE held in Singapore with the All Star team of drone scientists, with a project on the Amazon led by Hector Vargas. Learn more about XPRIZE and the Act Now Amazonas Action Alliance.

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Here to Help Ukraine

Partnerships For Change is providing support for Here to Help Ukraine (HTH), an organization that is helping displaced Ukrainian refugees find housing and support. If you'd like to help families that are struggling in the war, consider donating to HTH using the link below:

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URGENT - Help for Evacuations from Afghanistan

Partnerships For Change is currently supporting programs that offer safe passage for Afghan girls, boys, women, and men from Afghanistan to countries all over the world. Use the button below to donate to these evacuation efforts, or contact us if you'd like to learn more about some of the programs that we're currently helping to fund. 

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Support Partnerships For Change and its projects and media films to advance compassion and abolish cruelty to people, animals, and the environment.

 

PFC's Mission - Sustainable Forays

Partnerships For Change®(PFC) is a team of social impact strategists and practitioners. PFC disrupts the status quo and implements lasting change. Since 1990, we have harnessed the power of stories and partnerships to accelerate change through direct action projects with all forms of media. We continue to perfect the craft of transformation. We strategically engage local partners around the globe and mobilize filmmakers, authors, artists, political advocates, broadcast and print journalists, social media, web and mobile platform architects to bring change.

Our sustainable forays are to advance compassion and abolish cruelty to people, animals and the environment by accelerating economic, social and health empowerment projects, awaken the conscience from compelling stories, and build advocacy with awareness and policy change.

Advance compassion and Abolish cruelty, Awaken conscience, and Advocate change.

 

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  • Partnerships For Change Engagement at UNEA 5.2,Nairobi-Kenya

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    Happening during the year of 50th anniversary of UNEP,and at a time when the global economies are trying to open up after a devastating global pandemic,UNEA 5.2,which was basically the second segment UNEA 5,attracted a myriad of events including the Open-Ended Committee of Permanent Representatives(OECPR),Global Major Groups and Stakeholder Forum,Global Youth Environment Assembly and UNEP@50 among other side events.

    The OECPR comprises of all permanent representatives to UNEP and prepares for meetings of UNEA and regularly reviews the implementation of its decisions.

    The Global Major Groups and Stakeholders Forum (GMGSF) helps Major Groups and Stakeholders to prepare their input and participation in the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) and associated meetings while the Global Youth Environment Assembly convened by the UNEP Major Group for Youth and Children in which the Partnerships For Change’s Alphonce Muia sits in the Global Steering, is a collective youth participation in the processes of environmental governance within UNEA.It was the first in-person UNEA for PFC to participate after acquiring accreditation status with UNEP during the Summer of 2020

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    Alphonce gives an opening statement during the Global Youth Environment Assembly

    From 21-25 February,the OECPR met to consider draft resolutions to forward to UNEA for discussions and adoption.

    UNEA 5.2 had an arduous assignment of delving deep into negotiations that were expected to deliver ambitious outcomes on resolutions clustered under 5 categories;Marine plastic pollution,Nature based solutions and biodiversity,Chemicals and minerals,Green recovery and Circular economy,Organizational and administrative matters.

    At the entrance of UNEP complex there was a towering plastic artwork showing if UNEA 5 was to make anything very progressive,it was a very ambitious decision on cluster one on closing the tap of plastic manace that has not only ravaged marine ecosystems but also caused serious health problems to the global population. “We found nano plastic traces and also phthalates, a chemical product that we use to soften plastic, in my blood, and I don't think my blood is unique and I think this is true for all of us on the planet,” the President of UNEA 5 and Minister for Environment and Climate in Norway, Espan Barth Eide said during his opening remarks.

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    The unwavering pursuit for this compelling vision to make a step towards turning off the tap of plastic pollution was sustained all through the negotiations and the decision to establish an intergovernmental negotiating committee to end plastic pollution with negotiations starting on June made it the second-fastest environmental agreement to move from adoption to negotiations stage after the decision to make UNFCCC in the 1990s signifying the sense of urgency and commitment.

    UNEA 5.2 finally delivered a resounding success with the adoption of the following 14 resolutions:

    • l Resolution to End plastic pollution: Towards an international legally binding instrument
    • l Resolution on an Enhancing Circular Economy as a contribution to achieving sustainable consumption and production
    • l Resolution on Sustainable Lake Management
    • l Resolution on Nature-based Solutions for Supporting Sustainable Development
    • l Resolution on the environmental dimension of a sustainable, resilient and inclusive post COVID-19 recovery
    • Resolution on Biodiversity and Health 
    • l Resolution-Animal Welfare – Environment – Sustainable Development Nexus
    • l Resolution on Sustainable Nitrogen Management
    • l Resolution on Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure
    • l Resolution on the Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste
    • l Resolution for a Science-Policy Panel to contribute further to the sound management of chemicals and waste and to prevent pollution
    • l Resolution text on environmental aspects of minerals and metals management
    • l Resolution on the Future of the Global Environment Outlook
    • l Resolution due regard to the principle of equitable geographical distribution, in accordance with paragraph 3 of article 101 of the Charter of the UN.

    To serve as UNEA’s input to the Stockholm+50 international Meeting in June,a ministerial declaration to achieve SDGs and rebuild a resilient and sustainable post-pandemic world was adopted.

    The UNEP@50 special session provided a platform to reflect on how best to tackle the triple planetary crisis through a high-level opening ceremony attended in-person by the various heads of states including the Presidents of the republic of Kenya,Nigeria,Botswana and the prime minister of Central African Republic among others joining virtually.Leadership dialogues and multistakeholder dialogues also followed these topics.

     

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    Alphonce Muia 

    Partnerships For Change

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Complicit - The Film

complicitlogoPartnerships For Change serves as a fiscal sponsor and supporter of the development and distribution for the film Complicit showing that Apple and Samsung phones being made in China are poisoning workers to illness, disability and sadly death from ‘occupational leukemia’. Next time you make a call, post, or text from your I-phone or Galaxy, ask yourself do I want to support this form of production of the phone I use?

Already, Complicit has made a difference in the policies of Apple who publicly banned the use of leukemia causing chemicals, benzene, in the cleaning the circuit boards before their product is shipped. The film has already been won at several Film Festivals, starting with its Premiere at the Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival. (http://povmagazine.com/articles/view/review-complicit). This genre of film we call #ImpactSquared, as the film is designed to have impact for change to end this workplace death trap, and during its filming has actual impact to better the lives of people be negatively affected. (LINK to photo of projection of film on Apple’s 5th Avenue New York store.)

Despite the changes achieved, this is not even close to going far enough. For example, Apple claims to have no knowledge of the use of benzene from their prime contractor, Foxconn. Foxconn vehemently denies use of benzene despite evidence and secretly filmed pronouncements of the making of Apple products with Benzene. See the film at various screening debuts in different cities around the globe and also be part of the solution. http://complicitfilm.org

The Prophet

prophetposterThe Prophet is a animated feature of Kahlil Gibran’s novel starring Salma Hayek, Liam Neeson and produced by Salma Hayek and Executive Produced by William Nix, member of Partnerships For Change®’s Board of Advisors. Our strategic ally, Journeys In Film has done a curriculum guide for educators to inspire and sustain the message for years

Partnerships for Change® supports the vision and serves as the Fiscal Sponsor for a variety of direct social-action and issue-based Media Projects.

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