Purple Acts of Kindness 2007

  • Art with a Heart: After Oakland Leaf’s offices were broken into, Yahoo! replaced much-needed equipment to help them continue their mission of transforming community through creative education. (December 2007)
  • Talking Turkey: Yahoo! purchased turkeys, grocery gift cards and board games for 60 families at STAND! Against Domestic Violence so they could share a home-cooked Thanksgiving family meal. (November 2007)
  • Special Delivery: Yahoo! employees personally delivered much-needed supplies to heroic firefighters in Orange County and San Diego who were battling the Southern California wildfires. (October 2007)
  • Watch, Learn, Do: We gave members of SustainUS, a green Yahoo! group, 300 tickets to see the new environmental documentary “The 11th Hour” to inspire young people to take action to help fight global warming. (September 2007)
  • Rise and Shine: We surprised Bay Area commuters at the Mountain View Caltrain station with breakfast pastries and OJ served in Yahoo! Green mugs on the first Spare the Air Day of the summer. (August 2007)
  • Going Green is in the Bag: We inspired our community of 500+ million users with 8-year-old Jaide’s efforts to green her community by featuring her story on the front page of Yahoo.com. (July 2007)
  • Professional Pride: We sent 15 deserving youth leaders from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center in New York City on a shopping spree to professionalize their attire. (June 2007)
  • Once Upon a Green Time: We sponsored a series of environmental story times at a school library in Quincy, WA to celebrate Mother Earth on Mother’s Day. (May 2007)
  • Reading, Writing, and Recycling: We surprised a teacher at an elementary school near Hillsboro, OR with an eco-trip to Costa Rica in honor of Earth Day. (April 2007)
  • Girl Power: We chauffeured young women from GirlSource in eco-friendly limos to soak up hope and inspiration at the International Museum of Women’s Annual Gala in San Francisco. (March 2007)
  • Older and WISER: We gave seniors at WISE Adult Day Service Center in Santa Monica a welcome surprise by showering them with flowers and offering them on-site luxury manicures from Fred Segal. (February 2007)
  • Speak Your Mind: We provided digital voice recorders to 37 performers from San Francisco nonprofit Youth Speaks at their 10th annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration. We also gave the organization 5 video cameras to further support their art. (January 2007)

Purple Acts of Kindness 2006

  • Goodness Baked Right In: We sent 500 freshly baked brownies from the social entrepreneur Khaya Cookie Company to over 300 soldiers in Iraq. (December 2006)
  • Spreading the Inconvenient Truth: We sent the DVD, An Inconvenient Truth, to 221 high school science teachers in cities where Yahoo! has a major presence including Sunnyvale, Burbank, Santa Monica, Hillsboro, and New York. (November 2006)
  • Parking for Good: Yahoo! paid for a week of parking for all cancer patients at the Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center from October 9-13. (October 2006)
  • Comfort Food: On the fifth anniversary of 9/11, Yahoo! quietly catered a lunch for firefighters at the Ladder 10 Company of the New York City Fire Department to honor their ongoing courage and heroism. (September 2006)
  • Up with the Arts: We rolled out the red carpet for Bayview Hunter’s Point Center for Arts and Technology summer program graduates by providing each person with a schwag bag filled with picture frames, art supplies and disposable cameras. We also supplied two professional-quality SLR digital cameras and a color photo printer to the program itself. (August 2006)
  • Connecting Kids: We connected two low income schools in San Francisco and India. The San Francisco students were asked to brainstorm materials they thought the Indian students needed most and compared it to another list of materials they brainstormed for themselves. Yahoo! then went on a shopping spree to cover the essential items on both lists. The students from each school continue to stay in touch with each other through e-mail and share digital photos (taken with the digital cameras provided by Yahoo!). (July 2006)
  • Play Ball!: We sent 200 low-income YMCA children from San Francisco to go to a Giants baseball game at AT&T Park. (June 2006)
  • Kids Rock: We sent 200 homeless youth from Los Angeles to the opening night at the Hollywood Bowl. (June 2006)
  • Movie Night: We sponsored showings of the global warming documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” for 400 environmentally conscious, low-income students in Los Angeles and New York. (May 2006)
  • Returned and Reunited: We flew a severely wounded soldier to meet his battalion when they returned from Iraq. (April 2006)
  • Back to School Shopping Spree: We sponsored a school supply shopping spree for 6th graders in Milpitas, asking the students what they thought they needed most—and then provided those items. (March 2006)