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