Purple America is a national initiative of Values-in-Action Foundation to re-focus the American conversation to a civil, productive and respectful dialogue around our American shared values.
Values-in-Action Foundation empowers students and adults to build communities of kindness, caring and respect through programs that teach, promote, and provide skills and tools to enable individuals to make positive values-based decisions every day. To learn more about Project Love, our school-based, character-development initiative of Values-in-Action Foundation, visit www.viafdn.org
Values-in-Action Co-Founder, CEO and Purple America Founder Stuart Muszynski posts a regular blog on the Huffington Post. The blog’s point of view is based on connecting and discussing America’s core values with current and past on goings in categories such as news, entertainment, finance and more. It continues to be an excellent tool to spread the word about Purple America while encouraging Americans to reflect and live by their shared values.
To sign up to receive Stuart’s weekly blog, please send your email to amanda@projectlove.org.
See below for an up-to-date list of blog entries.
As Americans, We’re Similar. We Bleed Red and Lean Purple - December 8, 2017
This Thanksgiving, Whose Values are “Values Voters” Voting? - November 21, 2017
Going Beyond America’s Kindness Cues Can Make Us Better - September 20, 2017
Hire on Competence, Fire on Character: A Timely Lesson for Our Times - August 2, 2017
Colleges Have a Responsibility to Teach Civility, Responsibility and Respect - June 6, 2017
United Behind Doing the Right Thing - Posted April 21, 2017
Is the Golden Rule Still Alive and Well in America? - Posted February 28, 2017
Truth, Fact, Fiction or Propaganda: Who Can We Believe in this Era of Incivility? - Posted February 2, 2017
Welcome To The ‘Grating’ Of America, A New Era Of Incivility - Posted January 3, 2017
Move Beyond The Election To Embrace Kindness And Respect - Posted November 23, 2016
If We Want A Civil America, Teachers Must Take The Lead - Posted November 9, 2016
Character vs. Competence: The Perennial Challenge to Business, Athletes And Us - Posted September 16, 2016
Beyond The Purple Tent: Make America Civil Again - Posted August 8, 2016
Live From The RNC Convention: Civility Trumps Conflict In The Purple Tent - Posted July 15, 2016
Taking Back The United States Of Civility - Posted June 27, 2016
Remembering the Values Our Vets Fought For - Posted June 1, 2016
The Rules of the Game - Are There Any? - Posted April 13, 2016
Negativity Breeds Negativity, Positivity Breeds Positivity - Posted March 14, 2016
Donald Trump: America's Golden Calf? - Posted February 29, 2016
When Principled Leaders Ignore Principles, America Suffers - Posted Febuary 16, 2016
Defending New York Values, Moving Forward as a Nation - Posted January 25, 2016
Political Correctness Really Does Work -- in Politics, Marriage and Life - Posted January 12, 2015
The Unintended Silver Lining of Donald Trump - Posted December 14, 2015
My Head Tells Me to Fear the Refugees, My Heart Tells Me to Love Them - Posted November 22, 2015
Is Bully Journalism Here to Stay? - Posted November 10, 2015
Report from Purple America: Hillary Clinton Tops Values Meter In First Democratic Debate -
Posted October 22, 2015
The Religious and Gay Marriage Can Co-exist Within America's Shared Values - Posted September 11, 2015
Report From Purple America: Donald Trump, Anger and the Diminishment of the American Dream
Posted August 26, 2015
Report from Purple America: Can the Top 'Values Candidates' Predict Who Will Be the Next President? - Posted August 10, 2015
Seeing a Community of Values Through the Lens of the Brelo Verdict - Posted June 1, 2015
If I Were a Black Man - Posted April 30, 2015
In a City of 'Good People,' How Can 'Selma' Happen? - Posted March 17, 2015
Is Media the Problem? The Giuliani Story That Never Should Have Been - Posted February 24, 2015
Je Suis Charlie, but Can We Have a World of Respect? - Posted January 31, 2015
Living With Courage in a World of Bullies - Posted January 6, 2015
When Police Violate Our Values, 'Ferguson' Happens - Posted December 17, 2014
If Life Is a Game, What Are the Rules? - Posted November 21, 2014
Who Will Be the Next School Shooter? - Posted October 27, 2014
Every Company Can and Should Replicate CVS' Social Good - Posted September 17, 2014
Why is Customer Disservice Becoming the Norm and What Can We Do About It? - Posted September 2, 2014
We Need More Teens to Turn Out Like LeBron - Posted July 28, 2014
50 Years After the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Are We Yet a Nation of Character? - Posted July 2, 2014
Why Do We Put Up With Obnoxious People? - Posted June 19, 2014
Celebrating Nosy Neighbors - Posted June 3, 2014
Adam Silver: Protector of America Values - Posted May 5, 2014
I'm Ashamed to Admit It, But I Like 'House of Cards,' Violence and More - Posted April 10,2014
Toyota, GM and the Big 'Values' Blowout - Posted March 24, 2014
CVS: A Prescription to Do the Right Thing - Posted March 4, 2014
How the '12th Man' Can Transform America - Posted February 10, 2014
Chris Christie, 'Bridgegate' and a Question of Values - Posted January 22, 2014
Government Can Learn a Few Lessons About Forgiveness - Posted December 11, 2013
Grateful for the Lemons Life Gives Us - Posted November 25, 2013
Incognito, Martin and the 'Rules of the Game' - Posted November 11, 2013
Beyond the Bully: Restoring Civility to America's Schools - Posted October 30, 2013
Are We Teaching Our Children to Cheat? - Posted October 10, 2013
Syria: A Question of Balancing America's Values - Posted September 3, 2013
Time for a New Dream? - Posted August 23, 2013
How Can We Raise Teens of Character? - Posted August 7, 2013
Can Trayvon Martin Be a New Tipping Point in the War Against Racism? - Posted July 15, 2013
Can We Forgive Paula Deen? - Posted July 3, 2013
Celebrating the 'Soft Stuff' - Posted June 21, 2013
If They Believe, Even the Most Disadvantaged Children Can Achieve - Posted June 5, 2013
Does the IRS Have a Values Problem? - Posted May 22, 2013
Does Hate Live Among Us? - Posted May 8, 2013
When the World Is Going Crazy, Where Is Superman? - Posted April 19, 2013
If You Were Dying, Would Anybody Help? - Posted March 19, 2013
Does Washington Need a Real Code of Conduct? - Posted March 4, 2013
Rape Is Rape, Wrong Is Wrong, Where Is Decency? - Posted February 19, 2013
Lance Armstrong, MLK, America and the Rules of the Game - Posted January 22, 2013
America's Values Cliff More Troubling Than the Fiscal Cliff - Posted December 27, 2012
Newtown Shows Us that Love is Our Common Ground - Posted December 18, 2012
Beyond the Battle: How Do We Put Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again? - Posted November 5, 2012
Is Loss of Humanity the Real Risk of Risk Management? - Posted September 24, 2012
The Killing Spree: 'Sikhing' Answers to Eternal Questions - Posted August 19, 2012
When a Lie Is No Longer a Lie, What Happens to America? - Posted August 7, 2012
What Joe Paterno and Friends Can Teach Us About 'Winning' - Posted July 18, 2012
America as Re-run: Losing Andy Griffith Without Losing Our Way - Posted July 11, 2012
Baby Boomers: Born-Again on the 4th of July? - Posted July 3, 2012
Riding the Bus to a New Era of Respect - Posted June 26, 2012
Turning Around Our Schools: All You Need Is Love - Posted June 20, 2012
If Corporations Are People, Do They Have Hearts? - Posted June 4, 2012
Building a Nation Where Everybody Is Somebody - Posted May 22, 2012
Sentiments From the Swing state: An Ohioan's Appeal for a Civil Election - Posted May 9, 2012
Sex, Saints, Yogurt and World Peace: Bemoaning the Loss of Decorum - Posted April 27, 2012
Confessions of a Racial Profiler - Posted April 19, 2012
A Passover Seder for Dults - Posted April 6, 2012
"Rushing" to Judgment: What Responsibility Do Advertisers Have for Civility? - Posted March 16, 2012
Ensuring School Safety Must Involve Old-Fashioned Values - Posted March 8, 2012
Which Team Are You On: Your Own or America's? - Posted March 1, 2012
Get a Life: Attend a Funeral - Posted February 23, 2012
