Get updates here as well as our social accounts with details of where the Luci lights will be available. From all of us at MPOWERD, please stay safe out there.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

There are many ways to join in, from donating to your nonprofit of choice, to volunteering on the ground or participating in Give Luci. Because they’re waterproof, solar, durable and float, Luci lights fulfill a specific need for those affected by natural disasters.

We’d like give a special thank you to all of the individuals who have reached out to us to volunteer their time, efforts and vessels to bring these lights to those in need!

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UPDATE: Monday, November 14: Los Angeles for Puerto Rico delivers 336 lights to Casa Pueblo in Adjuntas. Next up: Cayey. Casa Pueblo focuses on low-income and low-access communities of the island and are also fundraising for solar fridges. 

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UPDATE: Thursday, November 2: Thanks to the Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands (aka Cane Bay Cares) and donors just like you, another 500 lights are on their way to St. Croix.

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UPDATE: Wednesday, November 1: Over 500 more Puerto Rican residents now have clean, reliable light, bought and delivered in person by the inspiring Paula Chandler.

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UPDATE: Monday, October 30: Our friends at Solar Sister have generously donated over 500 lights to Puerto Rico relief efforts. You can follow (and join in) the fundraising campaign here started by one of TIME's most influential Teens, Salvador Gómez Colón. 

We'd especially like to thank Gardner MacDonald, Rick Petree and Jay Moorhead of Global Power Partners for their donation of over 2400 lights to Puerto Rico through our Give Luci program. 

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UPDATE: Tuesday, October 24: Luci lights have landed in St. Thomas. The St. Thomas Reformed Church and My Brothers Workshop (MBW) picked up the lights personally, along with 800 lbs of donated baby supplies from TrustedWorld.org. Thanks to the Virgin Islands ASAP Relief Group for making this all possible.

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UPDATE: Monday, October 23: Another rockstar customer by the name of Magda Ponce-Castro rallied her community to bring 450 lights to her hometown of Maricao, Puerto Rico. Read all about it in this article in the Greenfield Recorder.

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UPDATE: Friday, October 13: We'd like to send a special shoutout to all-star customer Yamil Rivera of Denton TX, for raising money with his family and local church to buy EVERY SINGLE Luci at the FRY's Dallas store, and sending them to Ciudad Hatillo in Puerto Rico.

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UPDATE: Tuesday, October 10: Filmmaker / photographer Carlos Vargas and his team @manuelvelez_ and @piti_puaproductions picked up lights from our warehouse to take with them to Puerto Rico. Here is an update on their efforts:  

"Today we set on a mission to distribute solar powered lights and groceries to remote communities in the mountains. Without energy, water, and cell service self proclaimed “Camp Forgotten” is a group of 23 families (mostly elder) stuck in an area where the main access bridge collapsed.

Three weeks after Hurricane Maria citizens without hope of the municipality fixing the bridge anytime soon, have been forced to cross the mighty Tanamá river to meet their basic needs.
Our brigade, powered by organized civilians with skills (regular people just like you and me) rigged a shopping cart to a fixed line across the river to bring food, clean water, a satélite phone, light, hugs, and hope.

Keep doing whatever you’re doing wherever you are to help Puerto Rico. Every effort, phone call, meeting, dollar, social media post, will help. Don’t question yourself, just do it! It will make a huge impact.

Huge thanks to everyone involved one way or another specially @mpowerdinc for bringing light to Camp Forgotten."

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UPDATE: Monday, October 9: Luci lights have reached The Clara Lionel Foundation and are on their way to Puerto Rico. We are proud to support their relief efforts to collect and transport much-needed supplies to the island. An additonal 8000+ lights will now help communities still without power.

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UPDATE: Wednesday, October 4: Busy Beavers Gardening in Colorado have made a Give Luci purchase of $1,530.00 to our efforts in Puerto Rico! Jason Beavers, his partner Arabella, and their employees all pitched in to make this possible. Thank you to the Busy Beavers and to everyone for their efforts.

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UPDATE: Monday, October 2: + 8,571 lights are being overnighted to Empire State Relief by Rihanna's Foundation (The Clara Lionel Foundation).

We have allocated over 34,000 lights to disaster relief since the end of August! Thanks to everyone involved for their efforts.

We've been getting inquiries and requests non-stop to support those in need after Hurricane Maria. Over 12,000 lights are on their way to Puerto Rico!

Commercial pilot Catherine Scott Hiller AKA "Scottie" flew to our distribution facility in LA to pick up over 500 lights to distribute in person to Tortola!

The Sierra Club is donating 983 lights to Puerto Rico.

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UPDATE: Saturday, Sept. 30: Over 1,000 lights en route to Fort Meyers to be distributed to a network of clinics that serve undocumented immigrants as well as people with no insurance.

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UPDATE: Friday, Sept. 29: Sadye Clark, store manager from EMS in Portland ME has donated lights to two long-time customers so they could bring them down to St. Thomas. Thanks Sadye!

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UPDATE: Wednesday, Sept. 27: Our distributor in Mexico bought over 500 lights to donate to Red Cross Mexico and OXO.

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UPDATE: Tuesday, Sept. 26: We’ve surpassed more than 10,000 Luci lights donated already! Thank you to everyone involved in these efforts. Grand total of Luci lights gone to Harvey, Irma, and Maria relief: 11,494!

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UPDATE: Friday, Sept. 22: 840 lights are on their way to Anguilla via the folks at Help Anguilla!

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UPDATE: Thursday, Sept. 21: For Florida and Texas, thousands of lights are ready to ship out to Team Rubicon and Feeding America. Team Rubicon unites the skills and experiences of military veterans with first responders to rapidly deploy emergency response teams. Feeding America is the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization. They’ve already secured 1 million pounds of food and supplies for those affected by the storms.

We also have lights allocated and ready to go for the British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, St. John, Barbudo, Anguilla, Turks and Caicos, Virgin Gorda, Tortola, and India. We’ll continue providing updates as they come in.

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UPDATE: Wednesday, Sept. 20: The Salvation Army has been busy distributing food, water, general support, and Luci lights to those affected by Hurricane Harvey. Read about their experiences and our partnership here.

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UPDATE: Tuesday, Sept. 19: Over 6,300 lights now sent out!

Our friends at Expeditors have facilitated the donation of 300 lights thanks to our rep Michael Waller’s aunt Shirley (happy 80^th)! She’s taking them herself down to Houston and Puerto Rico. You go Aunt Shirley!

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UPDATE: Friday, Sept. 15: 196 lights were distributed through cooperation between a colleague’s parents and the Miss GEICO offshore racing team’s relief efforts in the Florida Keys, currently being distributed in Islamorada! Learn more about their work here.

144 lights have reached the Houston Salvation Army and are being distributed now!

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UPDATE: Thursday, Sept. 14: Over 5,412 lights now allocated for relief and more on the way!

The three cities where the Austin Disaster Relief Network are distributing Luci lights are La Grange, Kountz and Rose City.

Conch Charters are handing out 48 Luci lights to residents of St. Thomas!

Virgin Islands Relief (vistrong.org) was formed from the wreckage from the recent Hurricanes, and we're proud to be one of the first to coordinate with them! More updates coming soon.

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"They were SO excited when I showed them the lights" - Victoria Lavi, Austin Disaster Relief Network

UPDATE: Monday, Sept. 11: 1,104 lights are making their way to the Academy Sports corporate campus in Katy, Texas which is currently host to 1,100 first responders and US Army members conducting search and rescue missions along the coast. These brave men and women are out there literally saving lives every day, and for that we are so thankful.

Another 300 lights are allocated to the awesome folks at Sun and Ski, who will have them available at all 5 locations in the area, including Webster!

 

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UPDATE: Friday, Sept. 8: 120 lights arrive at both Bering’s Hardware locations - one per family!

BCF Group’s (a distributor of ours!) Manuel Cao donated 100 Luci lights from his own stock to the people of Puerto Rico, where 1 million may not have access to power for 6 months or more.

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UPDATE: Thursday, Sept. 7: 252 lights are sent to Craig Alper (an employee’s Dad!) and Daniela Salgueiro to be distributed in West Palm Beach, FL to locals without power. 60 of the lights are being distributed at a local immigration law firm (shout out to the office of Jan Peter Weiss!) to clients without adequate resources.

 

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UPDATE: Wednesday, Sept. 6: Lt. Nic reports the Luci lights to be of crucial aid, and the next 660 lights are shipped to the Salvation Army canteens in Corpus Christi and the Gulf Coast cities.

234 lights reach Nepal through our longtime partner Kids of Kathmandu - they go to two areas determined to be of greatest current need:

1 -  The Musahar (Dalit) community at Hathiisarawa, village in the Mahottari district, 100% of whom lost their homes in the flood.

2 - Sada / Mushahar Basti (Dalit) in Sarlahi. Most lost their goats in the flood, their only source of livelihood. Staff are on the ground distributing lights to each family.

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UPDATE: Tuesday, Sept. 5: 360 lights make their way to the Austin Disaster Relief Network, a group comprised of over 175 Greater Austin churches and thousands of trained volunteers who also provide emotional care. These lights will be available in three different cities - more updates to come.

72 lights arrive at the FEMA site in Port Aransas!

Thanks to our friends at the Abundant Life Foundation, 144 lights arrive at Robert’s Point Marina!

156 lights are available via our amazing retail friends at Kuhl-Linscomb, one of our favorite stores in Houston!

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UPDATE: Monday, Sept. 4: Who doesn’t love a law firm with heart? Thanks to Peckham Martin LLC, 144 lights are sent to the Salvation Army efforts prepping for Hurricane Irma.

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UPDATE: Wednesday, August 30: Thanks to our amazing partners at Direct Energy (who are also mobilizing their own efforts to Harvey victims), we sent out the first 60 lights to the one and only Lt. Nic Arroqui, spearheading Hurricane Harvey search and rescue operations with the Salvation Army. Another 1,020 lights are sent to be distributed by Direct Energy at local shelters throughout Texas - will update with details as they come in.

THANKS TO YOU

We are so grateful and humbled for the outpouring of offers of support we’ve received from fellow companies, nonprofits and groups of individuals to bring our Luci lights to those affected by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Katia, and Maria, the earthquake in Mexico, and the storms that have caused massive flooding throughout much of Southeast Asia.

The past month has brought with it an unprecedented barrage of natural disasters, displacing millions of families from their homes here in the US and around the world. We believe that in the face of global challenges, companies have a responsibility to step up and face them head on, participating in the recovery process and using our platform to connect one another. That’s why we reserve 10% of all Give Luci lights for natural disasters, and right now all lights purchased through the Give Luci program will go to those affected by the past month’s events.

By coordinating with both active search and rescue teams and those distributing disaster relief supplies, we’ve sent over 5,412 Luci lights so far, and thousands more are on the way. While the storms may be over, thousands are still without power, and every little bit helps.

 

GIVE LUCI - We reserve 10% of all Give Luci lights for natural disasters, and right now all lights purchased through the Give Luci program will go to those affected by the past month’s events.