By Connie Chan, Manager, Yahoo! for Good

In December, Yahoo! launched our You In? program at kindness.yahoo.com to encourage people around the world to spread happiness by doing random acts of kindness.  Thanks to you, our big-hearted Yahoo! community who helped spread the word, over 315,000 people from 11 countries updated their Yahoo! status with good deeds, and more than 500 stories were posted to the You In? Flickr Group.

Check out some of our favorites –

When we heard that Bill anonymously paid for a family’s overdue water bills , Yahoo! paid the heating bills for 12 families from a small town in Kentucky who were at risk of having their heat turned off in the winter.

Yahoos hand delivered  50 hot meals to farm labor families who didn’t have transportation to get to the food bank in Quincy, Washington.

And on the busiest travel day of the year, Yahoo! went to the San Jose and San Francisco International Airports to pay for people’s baggage fees.

But the kindness didn’t stop there!  We also sent 50 kids from a Boys & Girls Club in Washington D.C. to the Nutcracker Ballet, took low income seniors in elderly care facilities on holiday shopping sprees in San Diego and Miami, gave DVD collections to children’s hospitals in Portland and Cincinnati, and more.

So our new year’s resolution is to keep this warm fuzzy holiday spirit alive by spreading ripples of kindness through our year-round Purple Acts of Kindness program.  You In?