Michael works with a variety of charities and causes, but his focus is in 3 Vital Areas:

The Arts

The Environment

The Impoverished

Through The Gulf Coast Writers, River Readings, Sacred Story Institute, The Tupelo Theater, and aMUSEment, I work in and encourage, educate, and support the arts. I provide workshops, classes, conferences, publications, presentations, exhibits, plays, etc., as well as conduct Drama and Film Camps for kids.

Through The Mother Earth Fund, (which is named after a character from my novel, DOUBLE EXPOSURE) we fight against the fragmentation of and over encroachment in the increasingly fragile ecosystem, provide environmental education, publish eco-empowering literature, take children on nature encounters, conduct environmental film festivals, and support good stewardship of the earth through alliances with other private and government agencies. And along with my publisher Pulpwood Press, I plant a tree for every book I sell.

Through The Direct Effect Project we help people in need by providing food, assistance, teaching life skills classes, operate support groups, empower through education, and work for social justice.

 

All Contributions Go Directly to our Charity Work!

100% of your contributions go directly to those in need.

The mission of the Direct Effect Project is to have the most positive direct effect possible in the world, to help people in need with what they need most, to renew, restore, rebuild; to heal, to reach, to teach, to inspire. 

We believe people want to help, but are concerned about how little of their benevolence reaches those it was intended for. Some charities, especially those who use the services of professional fund-raisers, pay as much as fifty percent just in salaries, administrative, and fund-raising costs. 

Not us. One hundred-percent of everything this project receives goes directly to feeding the hungry, healing the sick, saving families from eviction, giving books and Bibles to inmates, providing scholarships for children, mentoring programs, classes, workshops, seminars and publications—all with the same desired effect: To increase the quality of life for as many people as possible.
 


Join me in this work. Volunteer. Donate. Buy one of my books.

A brief list of Michael’s Outreach Programs:

The Direct Effect Project

The Mother Earth Fund

River Readings

The Gulf Coast Writers Conference

Pulpwood Press

You buy a book. We Plant a Tree.

Group

Counseling

Teaching

Meaning Every Moment

Nature Encounters