Since 1990 Partnerships For Change® (PFC) has promoted social and economic transformation through direct humanitarian action and sustainable development. Based in San Francisco, PFC is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to positive transformation at the community level. PFC works with communities around the world, empowering individuals to achieve their full potential as well as building and strengthening community alliances.
Partnerships For Change® (PFC) has been recognized and acknowledged as a global leader in human development along with organizations such as Amnesty International, Green Peace, Habitat for Humanity and PETA. PFC also works closely with the United Nations, United Nations Global Compact, United Nations Environment Programme and the United Nations Foundation. Our work has been featured on CNN, PBS, Nightly Business Report, CBS NBC, ABC, Orange County Register, as well as international newspapers, magazines and, radio stations and magazines.
Inspired by Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’ Encyclical and the garden of Saint Francis of Assisi, The Living Chapel seeks to bring us on a journey of hope and to encourage people around the world to reconnect with the sacrality of life. This is accomplished through the creation of a physical garden in Rome in the summer of 2020, and the ongoing program to green the earth. The Living Chapel is currently on a mission to help plant trees across the world, and help people more connected to rebuilding our struggling planet.
Beyond the physical space, the Living Chapel represents a global movement that aligns with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals to restore our common home on the earth. Through interfaith and intercultural collaboration, The Living Chapel provides inspiration and support for planting initiative and to all those seeking to create Laudato Si’ gardens.
The First Living Chapel
First installed in the Botanical Garden of Rome, The Living Chapel brought together recycled and repurposed materials with diverse plants from central and southern Europe to create a harmonious space inspired by the teachings of Saint Francis of Assisi and the UN Trillion Tree Campaign. As visitors walked through the garden, their senses were engaged by the art, music, and nature of the Living Chapel
The garden was home to 10,000 tree saplings, including many “forgotten fruit” trees representing the cultural heritage of the region. Upon completion of the exhibit, the trees were distributed throughout Italy to create new gardens and spread the idea of Laudato Si’.
Values of The Living Chapel
To support the mission of rehabilitation through creating green spaces, the Living Chapel promotes three values:
- Biodiversity - We seek to create diverse and more sustainable ecosystems by encouraging the planting of rare, native, commercially rejected trees throughout the world.
- Harmony - The Living Chapel, Laudato Si’ gardens, and sacred spaces bring people into harmony with nature, God, and each other by calling on all the senses.
- Unity - Rehabilitating the earth through planting requires a universal effort, but also offers the opportunity to bring people together. The Living Chapel unites those of all cultures and faiths in this mission.
The Living Chapel works in partnership with the Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN, Global Catholic Climate Movement, and Plant for the Planet to inspire people around the world to plant and cultivate trees. This science-guided path will conserve and rehabilitate the planet in future years as the trees planted as part of this movement grow and propagate.
Learn more about The Living Chapel on their website: https://livingchapel.com/
Partnerships for Change is a fiscal sponsor for Let Science Speak, a campaign and video series designed to protect environmental and climate scientists from efforts to ignore their findings and downplay their warnings.
There are both coordinated efforts from bad actors and a sea of misinformation on news and social media about climate science. Their warnings are being suppressed, and their voices ignored. Let Science Speak is a non-profit organization helping their voices be heard.
They offer this through:
- Short Films
- Podcast
- Editorials
- Social Media Outreach, and more
The goal of Let Science Speak is to stop the censorship of scientists and drown out the amplification of non-expert voices. Partnerships for Change is proud to be a partner of Let Science Speak, and we strongly encourage you to donate, watch their videos, and share their content and message with others.
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Verdant World is a vision of a planet where forests thrive in harmony with humans; it is a solution level conversation to inspire a clear foundation for action. Their team produces events and support activities to facilitate innovation, develop resources, and coordinate projects that will make a Verdant World a reality.
Learn more about Verdant World on their website:
www.verdantworld.org
We at Partnerships for Change are extremely happy to be supporting the Verdant World team on their mission, and look forward to seeing all the amazing work that they can accomplish.
Every day over 1,200 children die of malaria. 70% of all deaths are children under the age of 5. Kids Against Malaria is a multi-language musical project about malaria treatment and prevention, inspired by the children from the International Center of Art and Music at Ouidah (CIAMO). Kids become the voice to create awareness and promote solutions for this deadly, but treatable disease. A team of Beninoise and internationally acclaimed musicians and filmmakers worked alongside the kids of CIAMO and Grammy Award-winning musician Angelique Kidjo, to produce a multimedia musical PSA that promotes current informational and solution based content about Malaria.
Kids Against Malaria: the song, ringtones, the music video, and the behind the scenes film will be widely distributed and available across transmedia platforms which will include, cell phones, television, radio and social media digital outlets. This project marries the arts, technology, and social media outlets to educate and promote solutions for combating the deadly, but treatable disease of malaria. Kids Against Malaria was formed with the support of the U.S. Embassy in Benin, U.S. Department of State, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Peace Corps, Harvard University, UNICEF and USAID.
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