More Love Letters

More Love Letters is a missional company focused on mental health and connection. It was founded by Hannah Brencher in 2010 and has grown into a globally successful business that advocates for community and mental health support. 

Hannah’s motivation for creating More Love Letters was deeply personal. After Hannah graduated from college, she moved by herself to New York City and suffered from extreme depression and loneliness. As a way to manage her struggles, she started writing handwritten love letters to strangers and leaving them in public places for others to find. She continued to create letters of encouragement and wrote on her blog that if anyone needed a love letter, she would write one. This promise was met with a massive response, and she was flooded with requests from around the world for a letter from Hannah. This project grew and turned into a network of volunteers, working together to write letters for people who needed them. 

Now, More Love Letters operates in over seventy countries. The company shifted its model towards a more personalized approach. Each month, people nominate individuals whom they know are going through a hard time and submit their information to MLL. Then a network of volunteers reads the person’s story and writes and mails letters to that individual. The nominee receives a large bundle of letters from people all around the world, showing them love and encouragement. The company is funded by generous donations and the merchandise that it sells. 

More Love Letters is a beautiful story about the power of community during hard times. Hannah’s act of creativity and love multiplied into a global movement that supports people in need of encouragement. She serves as a powerful example of an entrepreneur using her God-given gifts in an unexpected way and ending up meeting a very significant need.