- Rotary: Michael joined the Portland Rotary club in 2003, and in January 2016, after moving to Bend, OR, Michael joined the Rotary Club of Greater Bend, where he’s serving as a board member. Michael was Rotarian of the Year for his club in 2020-2021.
- My real estate services company, Realty Remotely, sponsored the Mountain View High School football team with on-field signage.
- Peninsula K-8 public school, where my son attended K thru grade 3 – Michael has organized sponsorship of their basketball teams, printing of their visitors’ badges, and personally sponsored a set of printed banners.
- SEMpdx, a Portland-area not-for-profit that puts on monthly educational events and the annual SearchFest conference – Michael was on the board of directors there for a number of years, before moving to Bend.
- Michael sponsored 4 children (Liliane, Mediane, Herve, and Shaminah) in Rwanda through my friend Vicky Trabosh‘s Itafari charity organization, since 2009. All four of them have now graduated from college!
- Michael was an Ambassador Board member for the Children’s Cancer Association from 2009-2013.
- Michael was on the Youth Exchange Committee, and a host family counselor, with the downtown Portland Rotary Club for about 12 years.
- Michael has done apheresis (platelets donation) a few dozen times with the Red Cross, as well as donating something like 70 pints of whole blood over the years.
Community Service
We believe that we all owe it to our world to give back in whatever ways work for us. Below, we’ve listed the places we help out below not just to show that we put our money (and time) where my mouth is, but also, the links here are good for those organizations’ websites’ rankings too: