If you run something in Madison County or Fayette County that takes volunteers — a food pantry, a shelter, a senior center, a church, a clinic, an animal rescue — there's a public list you can be on, and it costs nothing to be on it.

There's one per county:

organizations that need volunteers in Madison County, Kentucky, grouped by the town each one is based in — Richmond or Berea.
organizations that need volunteers in Lexington, Kentucky, which is all of Fayette County. The city and the county are one government and one place, so that list sits under a single town.

Every entry says what that organization needs a hand with and how to reach it directly.

If you're not on the one for your county, we'd like to add you. There's no fee, no account, and nothing to sign up for. This is the long version of how that works.

Check first — you may already be on it

We built both lists out of what organizations publish about themselves: what they do, what they say they need help with, and how they say to get in touch. Nobody was asked first. That means two things worth knowing before you write to us — you might already be listed without having heard from anyone, and if you are, some of it may be out of date or plainly wrong.

So look yourself up first, on the Madison County list (it's grouped by town, so start with Richmond or Berea) or the Lexington list.

What an entry is

Short, on purpose:

Your name, the way you'd want it read.
What you need a hand with — a sentence or two, concrete. "Pack grocery boxes for pickup and help run the walk-through pantry" tells somebody far more than "we need volunteers."
Where you are — a street address, or just the town if you'd rather. It's linked to a map.
A phone number and a website, if you have them.
A link to your own volunteer page, if you have one. That link points at your intake, not at ours.

That's the whole entry. There's no profile to maintain, nothing to log into, and nothing that expires.

How to send it

Use the form on our organizers page. It's the same form we use for anyone who wants to talk to us, so it asks a couple of things that aren't strictly needed for a listing — your name, an email, roughly what kind of group you are and how big. Answer those however's true.

The last box is the one that matters here. Put the entry in it: what you need a hand with, your address, your phone, your website, and your volunteer page if you have one. The address tells us which county list you belong on; say so outright if it's ambiguous. A real person reads it, and you don't need an account to write to us.

If something's wrong, or you'd rather not be listed

Same form, same last box. Tell us what to change and we'll change it — a moved address, a program that ended, a phone number that's been wrong for two years, a description that makes you sound like something you aren't.

And if you'd rather the entry came down, say so and it comes down the same day. That holds on both lists, it isn't conditional on anything, and we won't write back to talk you out of it. No questions. A listing somebody has asked to be off of isn't useful to anyone — it's a nuisance with their name on it.

What being listed means, and what it doesn't

It doesn't mean you use Lightwork. It doesn't mean we've checked you out, and it doesn't mean you've checked us out. None of the organizations on either list are affiliated with us and none of them use the app. It's a list, not an endorsement, in either direction — that's written on each page itself, above the entries, so nobody reads it the other way.

What it does mean is that somebody searching for who needs volunteers around Richmond, Berea, or Lexington can find you and reach you directly. Every link in an entry goes to your phone, your site, or your own volunteer page.

Who this is for

Any organization based in or serving Madison or Fayette County that takes volunteers — nonprofits, food pantries, shelters, senior centers, churches, clinics, animal rescues, mentoring and literacy programs, civic clubs. Small is fine. New is fine. If you accept help from people who don't already work for you, you belong on the list.

Those two counties are the only ones we cover right now. If you're somewhere else in Kentucky, write anyway — knowing where the interest is tells us where to go next.

If you also want to use the app

That's a separate thing, and a listing doesn't depend on it. There's a page for each county — Lightwork in Madison County and Lightwork in Lexington — and each one explains what the app is, who it's for, and where it honestly stands there, which is early. It's new in both counties, there's no crowd on it yet, and there are no local numbers worth quoting.

Your listing is useful either way. It stands on your own contact details, not on ours.