2002

• PFC initiated the “Monk Mobilization” project to engage Buddhist monks in the overall betterment of the society beyond the walls of the monastery.
• Raised additional funds for the completion of monastery in Pagan.
• PFC assisted in the rebuilding of a Sisters of Charity home for mentally and physically disabled in the Inle Lake region of Burma.
• Delivered and distributed 52 tons of rice throughout Burma to underserved communities.
• PFC supported Theravadic Buddhists monks, U Sandima and U Seneka, in two Yangon (Rangoon) monasteries.
• In a visit by PFC, funds were dispersed to a southern Burmese monastery in Zen Chai as well as to village schools.
• Organized and sponsored a trip with His Holiness Cealo to Japan, Burma, Thailand and Cambodia. Introduced Cealo to the royal family in Cambodia.
• Produced a musical CD of sacred and healing musicians from Japan; the recording was conducted live in a cave in Sedona, Arizona.
• Produced a healing concert in a New York Cathedral for the souls impacted by September 11, 2001 tragedies.
• Introduced His Holiness Cealo to the Esalen Institute in California and the Omega Institute in New York, and coordinated immensely effective speaking programs. Gayuna Cealo, a native of Japan, is a Burmese Buddhist monk who became highly revered in monastic orders throughout Asia and sought after by healers worldwide. Many report transformative experiences, physical healings, and spiritual awakenings in his presence.
• His charitable activities were the hallmark of his spiritual path. Partnerships For Change (PFC) was first to support Cealo and recognized the current “historic pivot point” in our civilization and seized opportunities to make a difference. PFC considered itself a “co-author” in creating new stories and ideas that resulted in positive change – a shift from the experience of fear to love, and from scarcity to abundance. Effective tools, media programming, direct action and forums with advanced multimedia and databases, and visual maps to display the unique resources, skills, and gifts of those it served were designed by PFC.
• Jacqueline Miller edited a book by H.H. Cealo entitled, 108 Healing Messages for Finding Your True Nature.
• Jacqueline Miller edited and contributed to the best selling book published by Harper Collins entitled, Power Healing, by Chinese medical doctor, Zhi Gang Sha.
• PFC organized and sponsored a series of lectures, presentations and an awareness campaign about Burma. These lectures were presented at venues throughout the U.S. cities including in San Francisco, Berkeley, Mt. Shasta, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Ojai California, Albuquerque, Sante Fe and Galisteo, New Mexico, Sedona, The Grand Canyon, Phoenix and Tucson Arizona Boulder and Denver Colorado, Chicago, Illinois, Fairfield, Iowa, Baltimore, Maryland, Washington, DC. New York, New York.
• Organized and led a trip of 30 Americans and 65 Japanese on a direct humanitarian action mission to Burma.
• Designed, cultivated and delivered sustainable environmental development plans for villages and cities throughout Cambodia. The Ecological Trade Waste System to Alleviate Waste (ETSAW, reversed waste) would generate a sustainable village with commercial products derived from sustainably harvested trees and foods grown in the areas surrounding trees. The plan was delivered and presented personally by PFC’s Jacqueline Miller and Andrew Michael to the Vice President of Cambodia as well as the President of the Cambodian Senate. Cambodia later adopted the plan.
• PFC met with the United Nations representative in Cambodia.
• Baby bottles, mosquito nets, and formula were purchased and delivered to a nursery and orphanage for HIV infected babies outside of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
• Supported the development of a school outside of Phnom Penh as well as a vocational school run by the Palm Tree Foundation. Provided computers and resources to learn the English language and helped build an expansion for the orphanage and school.
• Supported and worked with the Orphanage and Adoption Program in Cambodia that provided Oscar-winning actress and director, Angelina Jolie, with her son, Maddox, born on August 5th 2001.
• Organized special meditations at the United Nations headquarters in New York and hosted a luncheon in the delegates’ dining room to provide funding and support for on-going projects in Burma and Cambodia.
• Together with the monk, Cealo, PFC was able to provide medical supplies, educational materials to the orphans of Cambodia and Burma donating 63 tons of rice, clothing, blankets and vitamins.
• Andrew Michael, PFC’s Board of Director, Bay Area Council member and leader of the Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Development, assisted to establish a triple-bottom line of $170 million to Bay Area Family of Funds for the San Francisco Bay Area.
• Partnerships For Change® created and launched “Kyoto For The People” in Kyoto, Japan to stimulate and expand public support, particularly in the United States, for the Kyoto Protocol to help address and PFC Board of Advisor, Conrad Hilton III, honored Andrew Michael for being the most creative social entrepreneur of our time.
• PFC was awarded an unsolicited and significant multi-year grant from the Arie Kurtzig Memorial Fund through the Community Foundation of Silicon Valley. Co-founder of ASK, Arie Kurtzig, was a well known physicist and inventor of the touch screen computer. Arie Kurtzig, an avid environmentalist, made numerous contributions to improve ecological awareness and promote innovative solutions to environmental problems. He was a founding board member of Sustainable North Bay and supported many early organic farming techniques. Arie Kurtzig was known for Silicon Valley start-ups. He strongly agreed with PFC that psychosocial issues are pre-eminent in field of sustainability.