My One Man March

Friends, family, fiends and fans, my foot continues to heal too slowly for what I want to do but if I continue with the bone stim it may prevent having to have very invasive surgery. My One Man March had a board meeting last week and the grand total of funds donated currently sits at just over $7000. Not $1 million but I always knew the $1 million goal was going to be the hardest to achieve. In my opinion, the goal of raising awareness was successfully achieved but the most important goal that I wanted to achieve was to entreat, encourage, beseech and/or inspire individuals to participate in their own communities to solve the problem of hunger and helping homeless PEOPLE. I see hunger and helping homeless PEOPLE as a social problem that demands and deserves a social solution. We can't just pay our taxes and hope that the impersonal, bureaucratic "entitlement programs" will solve the problem for us and consider that our best effort. Supporting programs that attempt to end panhandling by encouraging people to give their spare change to participating businesses instead of to homeless PEOPLE feels like a half-assed effort and just another way of saying I care but I don't have the time or don't want to get my hands dirty actually engaging with homeless PEOPLE. The non-profits and churches that work to serve PEOPLE who are hungry or homeless will always need money but what could really help is having more volunteers to work directly helping homeless PEOPLE in need. Volunteer to fix a leaky sink at the POV or repair a broken handrail or change the oil on one of their vehicles. Come up with new ideas to help. How about developing a Garden Project for homeless PEOPLE like they have in Santa Cruz, CA. I am pretty sure there are lawyers and social workers and tax accountants that worship at churches, synagogues, etc and maybe they can develop a pro-bona program to help homeless PEOPLE get new ID or do their taxes, etc. Wouldn't the time they donate be tax deductible?Do whatever it takes to solve the problem and help homeless People in YOUR community using whatever skills you have. The benefit and dividends will help homeless PEOPLE and you will be rewarded as well. You get what you give, a cliche I know, but seems apropos in this instance.

Greetings from Missoula. I returned in early February and was suppose to go back to L.A. Around the 23rd but after a number of visits to doctors regarding my fractured left foot I decided that it would be best to stay and heal foot. Had an MRI last Friday and waiting for results. Doctor's fear that the front piece of the fractured bone might be dead and that leads to many more complications. Hope to find out soon if surgery is recommended or just a lot of rehab. However, the march goes on (pun intended). I have met with the MOMM board of directors and we are working on a list of organizations that will receive a portion of the money we raised. The total amount raised is approximately $5000 and we plan to give $200-300 gifts to as many organizations as possible in the four states (MT, ID, NV AND CA). I am slowly finding my way back to a normal life but have been spending a lot of time "Cave Manning". Cave manning is a phrase used to describe the behaviors that a lot of homeless people exhibit where they pull away from society, hiding physically as well as emotionally. It is a survival technique. Now that I have "walked the walk", I want to "talk the talk" and am working on a power point type presentation that I can take on the road. I also want to do Mini-Marches from Missoula to Helena or to Missoula to Butte, etc to continue raising awareness and funds for organizations in those cities that serve poor and homeless people.

Man taking steps to end homelessness Not even a broken foot has kept Stephen T. Millhouse from trekking 1,400 miles since Aug. 3 to bring attention to homelessness. He may not have come close to reaching the $1 million goal he set for his 'One Man March for the Homeless,' having raised $3,000 so far. But he said he has increased awaren...

Stephen will be in Malibu, CA by the end of the day and is still on schedule to arrive in LA next week. You are invited to meet him at the Hippie Kitchen in Skid Row at 1PM PST on Monday, Jan 2nd and cheer him on as he walks the last leg!

He will be walking east on Pico Blvd, turning left onto Main St (headed north), and then right onto 6th St to the ending point, the Hippie Kitchen, 821 E. 6th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90021. Please feel free to carry a sign showing your support of the fight against homelessness and hunger!