The Color Purple

Posted December 11th, 2009 at 10:30 am by Lucas Mast, Blog Editor

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By Meg Garlinghouse, Senior Director of Yahoo! for Good

This Fall, one of Tiburon’s favorite residents, the Purple Lady, lost her house in a fire.  Barbara Meislin, aka the Purple Lady, is a local author, singer and healer and she is known for her dedication to everything purple.   Given that we are kindred spirits when it comes to the color purple, Yahoo! employees wanted to do something to help. Several community members we spoke to said that the Purple Lady would only accept gifts that benefitted the community. This made it the perfect fit for our Purple Acts of Kindness program!

The Purple Lady recently wrote a book called “No One Can Ever Steal Your Rainbow”, a children’s book about love and hope that speaks to people of all ages.   Yahoo! bought 250 copies of the book, donated 200 copies to Raising a Reader, a nonprofit organization in Silicon Valley that engages low-income parents in reading to their children, and donated 50 copies to Somos Mayfair, a community-based organization that works with over 200 immigrant families in the San Jose area.

Thanks Purple Lady for inspiring us – you have created one amazing ripple of kindness.

Do you want to create a ripple of kindness this holiday season?  Check out our “You In?” campaign at kindness.yahoo.com to get inspired.

Photo by: Tim Porter

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Pam Henry | December 13th, 2009 at 7:23 am

Speaking of the Holiday season, I was wondering something…When I went to change the looks of my Yahoo! home page for Christmas, I could not find it as an option. I could choose to change to Hannukah and Kwanzaa, but not Christmas. Since that is the holiday I celebrate, not “winter” or a sleigh, or wrapping paper, I was wondering when you will add MY holiday, Christmas, to your list of options.

It would be a nice “ripple of kindness” for those of us who want to decorate our computers with “Christmas”.

Thanks so much,
Pam

a p navin | December 17th, 2009 at 12:43 am

Interesting book, maybe i will get to read it someday, thanks.
Yahoo!’s work is inspiration, thanks.

nail art info | December 29th, 2009 at 9:15 am

Well,.. we can`t do anything but love this lady and her shared lov of Purple.

Check how purple we are

Ifeanyichukwu | December 30th, 2009 at 3:50 pm

I want to part of this

Ifeanyichukwu | December 30th, 2009 at 3:56 pm

Yahoomail is the best for me