✦Teamed up with Beyonce Knowles to build the "Knowles-Rowland Temenos Place Apartments" in Houston, aimed to provide permanent living accommodations for people who are trying to improve their lives after the trauma of personal & natural disasters (Sep 07)
✦Confirmed on People Magazine's March 17, 2008 issue that she had plastic surgery in October 2007 to bring her "from an A-cup to a B-cup."
✦Was appointed as the official 2008 ambassador for the MTV "Staying Alive", the foundation works to empower young people to protect them against AIDS.
✦Arrived at the Kenyatta Hospital in downtown Nairobi, Kenya on June 19, 2008 to undergo an HIV and AIDS test as part of her duty as MTV "Staying Alive" 2008 ambassador.
✦During the Bush/Cheney campaign in 2000, she was, along with all of Destiny's Child, a supporter of Bush.