- Hilary Duff, singer and actress, and her management team invited Partnerships For Change to attend a concert series in Vancouver, Canada to review Direct Action Support including concert representation and the role of Joel Madden and Good Charlotte. PFC’s projects in India were premiered on the big-screen behind Duff’s concert performances.
- New York City – A United Nations meeting was facilitated by Partnerships For Change co-founder, Jacqueline Miller, and Under-Secretary, Shashi Tharoor, along with key division heads from Department for Public Information (DPI) with Hillary Duff and Susan Duff. Hillary Duff was invited to be an honorary UN Goodwill Ambassador. PFC discussed how to accelerate the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
- New York Stock Exchange – Partnerships For Change Board of Directors were invited to join the United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan, as he rang the opening bell and dedicated the commitment of 4 trillion dollars of investment funds to be assigned to the Principles of Responsible Investing, (PRI) a historic, highly innovative and groundbreaking initiative.
- A return group mission was organized by PFC to provide clothing and scholarships for the orphans housed at the Bon Secours Convent in India late 2005 through New Year 2006.
- The foundation stones for the Women’s Empowerment Center in India were placed in the ground in the Sendivakkam Village as the large community water well was completed. PFC’s fundraising efforts had already resulted in the building of the water well, a protective fence, and 13 sewing and embroidery machines that were being used to train women. The Women’s Empowerment Center as described by Sister Antoniammal of Bon Secours Convent was launched to achieve its aims of reducing poverty, preventing prostitution, human trafficking, slavery, crime, violence, drug abuse and the spread of water borne illness.
- Partnerships For Change was introduced to D. R. Mehta in Jaipur, India in the state of Rajasthan. Mr. Mehta runs the Bhadwan Mahaveer Vilang Sahayata Samit (BMVSS), is the world’s largest provider of the Jaipur Foot, a prosthetic device. PFC learned of their mobility and empowerment project. In one year, Jaipur Foot provided prosthetics and mobility devices to over 19,000 people in India. PFC has promoted the work of Jaipur Foot, introducing D.R. Mehta and the Jaipur Foot to leaders at the United Nations and to the Silicon Valley Social Entrepreneurs Award for which D.R. Mehta would become a recipient in 2007. PFC brought together the funders and filmmakers for a documentary on the Jaipur Foot, which was completed in 2007.
- San Francisco Examiner’s editor featured Jacqueline Miller to showcase and acknowledge her global humanitarian work.
- PFC’s Jacqueline Miller is honored for her work with a feature story about the role Partnerships For Change played to secure wheelchairs from the Wheel Chair Foundation founded by Kenneth E. Behring and delivered them to the elderly and young underserved people in Chennai, India. PFC personally identified a Tsunami victim along Marina Beach in Chennai who had lost her wheelchair due to damage from the Tsunami and provided a workable wheelchair to her on the same day in partnership with the Bon Secours nuns.
- In support of the refurbishment of an Elderly Home and an orphanage in Chennai, India, PFC visited the newly re-painted home and assisted to finance the roof repair, which was funded months earlier by PFC. Additionally, PFC provided the funding which donated new clothes and bedding for the elderly.
- Partnerships For Change hosted a party welcoming the United Nations Global Compact dignitary and PFC Board of Advisor, Gavin Power, to San Francisco, where he established an office in San Francisco. Partnerships For Change secured the opening of the United Nations Global Compact office in San Francisco in coordination with the creation of the Business Council on Climate Change with the city of San Francisco, the Bay Area Council and the United Nations Global Compact. PFC Board of Director, Linda Alber was in attendance.
- PFC sponsored and organized a musical concert at the United Nations Headquarters in honor of the International Day of Non-Violence with Inner Voice, featuring former performers from the group Menudo. PFC hosted a lunch in the delegate’s dining room and thanked corporate sponsors, which included presentations by PFC Board of Director, Diane Patton Federico and Board of Advisor member, Richard Diefenbach. Funds were raised for the Women’s Empowerment Center in Sendivakkam, India and for continued support of Jaipur Foot.