Purple Dot Verified™
Jane Smith
Town Council
Manchester, New Hampshire
Independent • USA
Seeking $5,000
Raised $2,350
The Philanthropist Party
is different.
Run Purple. Put Values First.
Any Party. Any Election. Any Race. Any Country.
Purple Dot Verified™
Purple Dot Verified™ is process-based, not ideology-based. You can ActBlue or WinRed and still Run Purple.
A Purple Dot simply means the person completed an assessment, published a public values statement, signed a pledge, and passed a basic review. The policy quiz is intentionally quick and easy: 20 questions. A Purple Dot is free.
Support a Purple Dot Verified™ Candidate
Featured applicants and candidates seeking early-stage support. Candidate detail pages include assessment placement and public record details.
Purple Dot Verified™
Purple Dot Verified™
Miguel Santos
Municipal Assembly
Lisbon, Portugal
Independent • Portugal
Seeking $5,000
Raised $1,220
Purple Dot Verified™
Sarah Patel
Library Trustee
Toronto, Ontario
Nonpartisan • Canada
Seeking $500
Raised $125
Purple Dot Verified™
Hannah Weber
City Council
Hamburg, Germany
Local Independent • Germany
Seeking $5,000
Raised $890
Purple Dot Certified™
Aarav Mehta
District Council
Pune, India
Independent • India
Seeking $50,000
Raised $7,900
Purple Dot Verified™
Camila Rocha
Community Board
São Paulo, Brazil
Independent • Brazil
Seeking $500
Raised $240
How It Works
1. Take the Assessment
Answer 20 simple questions to create a public values snapshot.
2. Publish a Values Statement
Candidates state where they stand and can update their record over time.
3. Take the Purple Dot Pledge™
Sign a clear public pledge with an embedded signature pad.
4. Apply for Support
Applicants may request $500, $5,000, $50,000, or $500,000.
Wear The Dot™
A simple purple sticker can become a conversation starter on name tags, campaign tables, events, and community meetings.
Wear The Dot™
Ask people where they stand. Invite them to take the pledge.
The History of TPP
This work builds on years of Philanthropist-branded events, donor conversations, and values-based evaluation concepts.
August 1999
Eric Melin writes an 85-page business plan for “ValueSystem.com” at the height of the dot-com boom covering ideas later associated with values-based investing, socially responsible investing, triple bottom line investing, green investing, ESG, and the later philanthropist.org / philanthropist.run concepts.
April 2006
Seven founders from BU, BC, UVM, UPENN, MIT, and Harvard Business School meet in Boston for a kickoff Founder’s Meeting specific to philanthropist.org.
September 2008
Eric Melin sponsors the Harvard Democrat vs. Harvard Republican Debate Club teams in a Red vs. Blue Paintball Match to attempt to create the perfect “purple dot.”
December 2010
Philanthropist.org hosts its first Annual Philanthropist Party fundraiser with over 200 world leaders at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
February 2011
Philanthropist.org completes the first of several Field Studies: mission-trips overseas as well as early prototypes for a technology platform.
February 2020
Philanthropist.org completes a year-long fundraising effort to secure capital and major gifts to support full-time operations and staff up offices. Then COVID changes the operating plan.
January 2024
Post-COVID, philanthropist.org, Inc. is restructured to separate philanthropist.site from philanthropist.org, philanthropist.run, and other brands.
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