Real letters. Real Alaska stories. Real connection in the mail.
A monthly letter subscription bringing warm personal letters to Alaska elders, whether in care facilities, veterans' homes, or wherever they call home.
Launching June 2026 · North Pole, Alaska
Alaska, where every season tells its own story.
Meet Sadie
Some people deserve a letter in the mail.
My name is Sadie and I enjoy writing letters about Alaska, remembering the unique reasons why we love Alaska. I believe there is nothing quite like opening your mailbox and finding something personal waiting there, something that was written with you in mind.
I grew up living the Alaska life — stories about fish camp and the first snow. About the northern lights on a winter night and the particular smell of woodsmoke on cold air. About berry picking and sled dogs and the long golden days of summer. These are the kinds of stories I share, and I hope they remind you of your own.
Every letter includes a postage-paid return envelope. Write back whenever you feel like it, or simply read and remember. Both are perfectly fine.
Warmly, Sadie
How it works
Simple as opening the mailbox.
You subscribe on behalf of someone you love
Sadie mails two warm letters per month, plus a birthday card each year — hand addressed and stamped
They read, remember, and write back whenever they want. A postage-paid envelope is always included
Included with every plan
A birthday card,
every single year.
Sadie sends a hand-addressed birthday card each year — a warm, personal note that arrives right around their special day. Every plan includes it, automatically.
Dear Friend,
“On your birthday I want you to know that someone is thinking of you — someone who lives up where the birch trees turn gold and the first snow smells like cold iron and pine.”
Warmly, Sadie
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Choose a plan
Annual billing saves over 10% · Institutional rates available for 10 or more participants · Partnership pricing $30/person/month for Premium package
$20/month
- 2 letters per month
- Postage-paid return envelopes
- Birthday card
- 1 holiday greeting card in December
$30/month
- Everything in Basic
- 4 seasonal greeting cards per year
- Biannual story summary from Sadie
$45/month
- Everything in Advanced
- 3 additional greeting cards
- Postcards every other week (26 per year)
- Custom Alaska calendar beginning 2027
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A Letter for You partners with foundations and donors so every elder who needs Sadie's letters can have them.
Fill out the form and we will review your request. All nominations are kept confidential.
Partner With Us
Bring Sadie's Letters to Your Group
Organizations with 10 or more participants receive partnership pricing at $30/person/month for Premium package. We invoice you directly. You provide the participant list, we handle everything else.
A Perfect Fit For
- American Legion & VFW posts
- Assisted living & long-term care facilities
- Senior centers & area agencies on aging
- Rotary, Kiwanis & civic organizations
- Faith communities & churches
- Businesses sponsoring isolated elders
Support the Mission
Help Bring Sadie's Letters to More Elders
Make a tax-deductible donation to help bring Sadie's letters to more isolated elders across Alaska. Through our fiscal sponsorship with Fiscal Sponsorship Allies, every gift directly supports the program — no specific recipient required.
A Note from the Founder
“Being thought of, especially by someone who has no reason to think of you, is one of the most quietly powerful things in the world.”
A Letter for You started with a small habit. I send pop-up cards to my older friends — the ones I don't see often, the ones who live too far away to drop in on — just to let them know I'm thinking of them. Nothing fancy. Just a card in the mailbox that says you're on my mind.
One day I started thinking about the people who don't get those cards. The people who don't get mail. Who don't get visitors. Who don't have friends or family close enough to stop by. And I realized what I was doing for my own circle could be done for people I'd never meet — that compassion doesn't need a personal connection to be real.
I picked the mailbox on purpose. So much of modern life is fast, fast, fast — a click, a scroll, gone before you've really registered it. A letter is different. You can hold it. You can set it on the windowsill. You can come back to it tomorrow and the day after that, and every time you see it, you remember someone thought of you. That's the part I want to give people. Not just a moment of connection, but something tangible enough to live with.
When I first described this project to coworkers, more than one of them got goosebumps. A few teared up. I think it touches something most of us already know in our bones — that being thought of, especially by someone who has no reason to think of you, is one of the most quietly powerful things in the world.
Thank you for being part of it.
Robi