About Us

Our mission is to alleviate social isolation among older adults through handwritten letters and intergenerational connections.

750,000+

handwritten letters to older adults experiencing isolation

70

campus volunteer chapters

10,000

annual Letter to an Elder Day (Feb 26) participants

27

countries we’ve sent letters

 

Our Story

 

We started because of a loving grandpa.

“After my grandpa died, I started volunteering with older adults to find a special connection like the one we shared, but I was upset by the chronic loneliness I saw. Some residents would tell me they hadn’t heard from family or friends in months. They didn’t even get something as simple as a letter in the mail. So, in 2013, I wrote a letter. Then another. Since then, I’ve been on a mission to fight a growing loneliness epidemic.”

- Jacob Cramer

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