- PFC along with the city of San Francisco and AT&T Park sponsored a feasibility study for a concert to raise awareness for Burma. PFC invited potential sponsors interested in Burma along with artists and other musical producers, academics and advocates to form the basics for the concert.
- The PFC Board of Directors welcomed to the Partnerships For Change Board of Advisors, Angela Alioto, Esq. and founder of the Knights of Saint Francis and the Nuova Porziuncola, a Holy site, in San Francisco and one of only five sites in the world to be declared Holy by the Vatican.
- U Kovida, a Theravadic Buddhist monk and leader of the Saffron Revolution in Burma, was welcomed as the latest member to the PFC Board of Advisors. Christiane Amanpour on CNN recently profiled the monk.
- PFC supported “The Compassion Project” (TCP) which was founded by the Tibetan monk, the Venerable Phagyab Rinpoche, who survived imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Chinese in Tibet. “The Compassion Project” seeks to support Tibetan refugees and offer vocation training and cultural assimilation into the Indian communities.
- PFC along with TCP continues to explore projects and programs together. TCP was founded to bring the wisdom of Tibet’s Buddhist mind-sciences to the West to promote conflict resolution, non-violent communication, self-healing and universal compassion.
- PFC continues to support the Universal Yoga Center in the San Francisco, California and the Dig Darshan School in Patna in the state of Bihar, India; Sri Swami Satya Brahamananda founded both groups.