About Partnerships For Change
Thirty-five years of direct humanitarian action.
Partnerships For Change (PFC), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, is dedicated to the promotion of sustainable development through direct humanitarian action and transforming social and economic conditions of underserved communities around the globe.
01 /Mission
Positive transformation at the community level.
$40M+
in financial support to exceptional projects
35+
years responding where the need is greatest
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 an international, nonprofit 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. Our projects have included empowering social and spiritual entrepreneurs, advancing transformational healthcare, empowering women, accelerating social, economic and environmental transformation, catalyzing change through the media and leading groups on global learning journeys.
Partnerships For Change® (PFC) has long 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, as well as Johns Hopkins Medicine and the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. 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.
It is PFC’s commitment to elevate and empower individuals to reach their ultimate potential and strong community coalitions.
02 /Founder
Jacqueline Miller
Founder, President & CEO
Jackie co-founded Partnerships For Change in 1990 with Linda Alber and has led it ever since. She conceived the original model for Chicken Soup for the Soul, wrote the international best seller Heart at Work (McGraw Hill) and, with Heidi Alber, The New Heart at Work, endorsed by Marc Benioff. She was appointed by Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer to a Self Esteem task force and was made a Knight of St. Francis in 2008.
She has been featured on CBS Evening News, CNN, NBC, ABC, PBS and Business Week, was the opening speaker at the Pontifical Salesian University conference in Rome in June 2025, a panelist at the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology and Laudato Si’ Research Institute conference in July 2026, and in 2026 received the International Good Practices Award, shared with Christine Arena of Generous Films.
03 /Signature moments
A few of the moments.
Thanks to donors like you, we were able to have some amazing moments and help create great things through our organization. See the full year-by-year timeline.
1990
Co-founded in San Francisco by Jacqueline Miller and Linda Alber.
1999
Dr. Patch Adams and 35 medical doctors deliver over $500,000 in medical supplies to Kosovo war refugee camps.
2001
PFC begins sponsoring Lama Tenzin Choegyal and the rescue of children from the Upper Dolpo region of the Himalayas.
2005
Over $100,000 in financial support to rebuild a school with the St. Thomas Basilica in Chennai after the tsunami.
2011
PFC-sponsored Miss Representation premieres at Sundance and airs on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
2020
Accredited by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
2025
Opening speaker at the Pontifical Salesian University conference, Rome.
2026
Jacqueline Miller receives the International Good Practices Award.
04 /How funds are used
Most of every dollar goes to the work.
PFC receives funds from private donations, grants, foundations, sales from products, and the Better Earth Note. In most instances, 10% of the funds we receive are designated for overhead, 5% to 10% for financial accounting, and the remainder of 80% to 85% is utilized for direct implementation of projects.
PFC applies the accounting standard for organizations and businesses that have sales or revenue of $5 million or less. Most recent published financial statement (FY June 2014, PDF).
80 to 85%
Direct implementation of projects
10%
Overhead
5 to 10%
Financial accounting
Listed on GuideStar. Working towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Accredited by UNEP since 2020.
05 /People
Officers, board and advisory council.
A council that spans medicine, film, finance, faith and public policy, and gives PFC its reach.
Jacqueline Miller
Founder, President & CEO
Andrew Michael, Esq.
President, Board of Directors
Brooke Foote
Secretary
Julie Bergman
Director
Advisory Council
Patch Adams, M.D.
Founder, Gesundheit Institute.
Angela Alioto, Esq.
Filmmaker, Author, Activist; International Director and Founder of the Knights of Saint Francis.
Steve Allen
PR Genius & Founder, Steve Allen Media (“PR with a Conscience”). Acclaimed director and actor on stage and television who appeared in the Seinfeld series.
Dr. Sunny Anand, MD
Stanford Professor of Pediatrics/Anesthesiology; global health leader and Nobel Nominating Committee member.
Sam Assefa
Director, California Governor’s Office of Land Use & Climate Innovation. Expert in climate policy and sustainable development with ties to Ethiopia and Kenya.
Bob Berkowitz
President, Bob Berkowitz Communications Consultants.
Julie Bergman
Film Producer, Balcony Films (also Board Director).
Andrew Carton
Mobile Nation.
Susan Cartsonis
Partner and Co-founder, Resonate Entertainment.
Tom Chi
Co-founder, Google X; Founding and Managing Partner, At One Ventures.
Nancy Christiano
CEO, Pacific West Ventures.
Lama Tenzin Choegyal
Founder, CED Orphanage.
Sarah duPont
President and Co-Founder, Amazon Aid Foundation.
Tom Eddington
Strategic Advisor; Conscious Leadership Coach & Vice President, State of the World Forum.
Conrad Hilton III
The Hilton Foundation.
George R. Jensen, Jr.
Entertainment, sports financing, and private equity.
Yogesh Kalley
Google.
Bruce Kieloch
Founder, Kieloch Consulting; strategic political consultant.
Dr. Philip Landrigan, MD, MSc
Founding Director, Global Public Health Program, Boston College.
Dr. Linda Leum, MD
Anesthesiologist; Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) volunteer.
D.R. Mehta
Chief Patron, Jaipur Foot (BMVSS).
Cindy Mercer
Planet Heritage Foundation.
William Nix
Chairman, Creative Projects Group.
Tam Pham
Co-Founder, Meridian Partners; Chief Strategist, Financial Analyst & Cultural Diplomat. Wife of H.E. Jean-Philippe Linteau, Canadian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
Amit Pradhan
General Partner, Jet Ventures.
Gavin Power
Vice President, Pimco; former Deputy Director, United Nations Global Compact.
Elana Yonah Rosen
Co-founder, Edutopia (George Lucas Educational Foundation); education innovation leader.
Anne Reynolds Robertson
Activist; Founder, Toxic Free Future For Our Children.
Henry Rowlands
Project Founder, The Detox Project.
Dayna West, PhD
Clinical Psychologist; expert in trauma-informed and psychedelic-assisted therapy.
Carol Ann Wentworth
CEO & Founder, Wentworth Executive Recruiting; mindful leadership expert.
06 /Recent
Latest news.
Is Partnerships For Change a registered charity?
PFC is a nonprofit charitable 501(c)(3) organization under the laws of the I.R.S., in the United States of America. PFC is incorporated in the state of Nevada. Our EIN is 88-0303288.
How do you choose which projects to support?
We use a social, economic and environment impact criteria for underserved communities to select projects. The project must satisfy substantial criteria from the following questions: Will it economically empower the community? Will it improve the environment? Will it help socially liberate at-risk populations? Will it serve as a demonstration project for replication purposes? Does it foster self-reliance and self-sustainability? Does it empower innovative breakthrough models? Does it serve toward a Tipping Point in that community?
Where does the money come from, and where does it go?
PFC receives funds from private donations, grants, foundations, sales from products, and the Better Earth Note. In most instances, 10% of the funds we receive are designated for overhead, 5% to 10% for financial accounting, and the remainder of 80% to 85% is utilized for direct implementation of projects.
Is my gift tax-deductible?
Yes. Gifts to Partnerships For Change are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. You receive a receipt with our legal name and EIN immediately after giving.