Miracle Messages

Miracle Messages is a nonprofit message delivery service for our neighbors experiencing homelessness to reconnect with their loved ones. Our award-winning problem-solving tool is simple and effective: a person isolated by homelessness records a short video, audio, or text message to a family member or friend, often with the help of a caseworker at a partner site or a trained volunteer. Then, our global network of "digital detectives" attempt to locate the loved one and deliver the Miracle Message. We offer a humane way to help end homelessness: reconnect families, shatter stigmas, and empower local residents and partners to get involved. To date, Miracle Messages has reunited 194 families, with an average time disconnected of 20 years, using our mobile app, online and paper-based referral forms, and 1-800-MISS-YOU hotline. 82% of delivered messages have been positively received, and dozens of reunions have resulted in getting a client off-the-streets, all at a fraction of the cost of other interventions. We believe that everyone is someone's somebody. Our work has been featured in 500+ publications, including the New York Times, NPR, on a billboard in Times Square, and NowThis (26 million views). Founder Kevin F. Adler started Miracle Messages in honor of his uncle, who lived on-and-off the streets for 30 years. We are on a mission to end relational poverty on the streets and, in the process, inspire people everywhere to embrace their homeless neighbors not as problems to be solved, but as people to be loved.