Continuing to support Ukraine is critical both now and in the future as Ukraine rebuilds after the war. We encourage supporting organizations with minimal overhead costs, efficient operations, transparency in spending, and local expertise. There are many such organizations; here are a few that we recommend.
General Humanitarian and Multifaceted Aid
Rescue Now
Rescue Now is an international foundation founded by Ukrainians in the early days of the Russian invasion. They have saved more than 400,000 people during the war in Ukraine through evacuations, humanitarian aid, and helping volunteers become more effective. They also provide children with psychological support for PTSD symptoms and prevention. Donate to Rescue Now
Sunflower of Peace
Sunflower of Peace Foundation is a Boston-based non-profit organization whose mission is to support the people of Ukraine affected by the russian invasion. Their efforts center around collecting medical supplies, procuring generators for those in need, and providing humanitarian aid and financial assistance to nonprofit organizations in Ukraine. Donate to Sunflower of Peace
Helping to Leave
Helping to Leave is a 24/7 evacuation helpline launched on February 24th – the day russia invaded Ukraine. They work to support refugees through every step of evacuation, from covering travel expenses to connecting people with volunteers on the ground to providing counseling. They have helped more than 160,000 people with transit to safe areas. Donate to Helping to Leave
forPeace
forPEACE’s Ukraine Relief Project focuses on precise assistance for localized projects, providing the essential link between international financial support and the expertise of on-the-ground Ukrainian networks. Programs include supporting field hospitals, training doctors in trauma surgery, and supplying frontline paramedics. They also work to provide water filtration and winter survival supplies in occupied territories. Donate to forPeace
Razom for Ukraine
Razom was founded after the Revolution of Dignity, or Maidan, in 2014. Their mission is to help accelerate their individual and collective contributions through projects that unlock Ukraine’s potential and build toward a more prosperous, democratic nation. They provide critical humanitarian war relief and recovery depending on the most urgent needs, delivering tactical medicine items, hospital supplies, and technology through trusted shipping partners. They are also heavily involved with advocacy for American policies in support of Ukraine. Donate to Razom for Ukraine
Sweetanok
Sweetanok is focused on rebuilding Ukraine through urban planning and working with architectural firms to developing modular housing. They aim to restore and evolve small Ukrainian communities into thriving European towns. In addition, Sweetanok supplies the Ukrainian Armed forces with charging stations, drones, truck tires, and humanitarian supplies. Donate to Sweetanok
Brave Action Ukraine
Brave Action Ukraine is a nonprofit that promotes projects supporting ordinary people in Ukraine. Projects include, but are not limited to transporting military supplies, vehicles, and medical support, organizing concerts to raise funds for the Ukrainian army, and providing art therapy for women whose husbands died in the war. Every week they hold fundraisers to collect money for their four ongoing projects, in addition to supporting Ukrainian artists, performers, writers, and filmmakers. Donate to Brave Action Ukraine
Help People
Help People is a humanitarian institution that works to mitigate crises around the world. They evacuate civilians from temporarily occupied regions and maintain a logistics center that includes a service station, a warehouse and a hostel. Currently they are fundraising in order to repair their existing vehicle fleet, as well as working to purchase a new evacuation bus. Donate to Help People
Cleveland Maidan
Cleveland Maidan was founded in January 2014 in Cleveland, Ohio, in order to send aid to Kyiv after the Euromaidan Revolution. After the 2014 invasion, they began sending medical supplies and equipment to Ukrainian hospitals who were not prepared for the war. After February 2022, Cleveland Maidan increased its funding efforts, using its network thoughout Ukraine and Poland to ensure that aid is delivered quickly and effectively. To date, they have delivered over 155 tons of medical aid and donated over $475,000 to nonprofit organizations in Ukraine. Their current projects include providing search and rescue equipment, transport vehicles, and prosthetics for Ukrainians, as well as delivering refugee support. Donate to Cleveland Maidan
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
This Foundation is focused on strengthening the Defense Forces of Ukraine and assisting civilians affected by russian aggression. They directly communicate with commanders of military units to determine their specific needs, help deliver the goods, and process the feedback received on their aid. They also fundraise in order to meet requests for civilian aid, organize aid delivery, and monitor its impact. Donate to Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
RememberUs
Established in 2013 to educate people about the consequencs of genocide in Ukraine, RememberUs pivoted to focus on humanitarian aid when russia launched its full-scale offensive in February 2022. Their aid is targeted towards Ukrainians who remain in areas of active war, as well as vulnerable populations: people in extreme poverty, families with disabled children, and elderly people. Their projects include sending humanitarian aid packages, winter clothing, and hygienic supplies, as well as raising awareness and organizing fundraisers outside of Ukraine. Donate to RememberUs
Superhumans Center
The Superhumans Center is a state-of-the-art rehabilitation center in Lviv, Ukraine, which provides adults and children injured in the war with prosthetics as well as psychological support and rehabilitation. Donate to Superhumans Center
SOK Foundation (Poland)
The Samodzielność od Kuchni (SOK) Foundation helps displaced Ukrainian children in Poland gain a sense of security and develop life skills, address the effects of war trauma, and integrate into life in Poland. Through classes teaching Polish as a second language, communication skills, and emotional management techniques, SOK directly helps children, while through trainings and online platforms they help educators refine their teaching skills. Donate to SOK Foundation (Poland)
World Central Kitchen
WCK provides meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises. They build resilient food systems with locally led solutions. Their initiative #ChefsForUkraine is providing nearly 300,000 daily meals to people across Ukraine while continuing to expand their relief efforts in the country. Donate to World Central Kitchen
Military Support
Come Back Alive
Launched in 2014, Come Back Alive is Ukraine’s largest charitable organization providing support to the Ukrainian Defence Forces. Currently, they are focused on providing the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine with air defense communications, drones, heavy machine guns, and automatic grenade launchers. Come Back Alive is fully transparent and offers open financial reporting on their website. Donate to Come Back Alive
Ukrainian Armed Forces (National Bank of Ukraine)
The National Bank of Ukraine opened a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The account was opened after the Ukrainian government imposed martial law throughout Ukraine in response to armed aggression by russia and the threat to Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity. The account is currently accepting donations from multiple currencies, including U.S. dollars, euros and British pounds. As of September 2023, over 760 Ukrainian hryvnias have been received. Donate to Ukrainian Armed Forces (National Bank of Ukraine)
The Victory Team
The Victory Team consists of former US combat veterans who are fighting against russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They are working to provide Ukraine with drones, data and communications equipment, vehicles, body armor, uniforms, and other equipment. All of the organizers are army veterans who have actively fought with the Ukrainian Army. Donate to The Victory Team
Dzyga’s Paw
Dzyga’s Paw is a Ukrainian charity works directly with the Ukrainian army and supplies them with high-tech equipment. They use donations to purchase drones, radios, GoPro cameras, Starlinks, and military uniforms. They are fully transparent and track all funds received and spent on their website. The foundation is named after the founder’s dog, and Dzyga frequently poses for pictures with the military supplies before they are sent to their destination. Donate to Dzyga’s Paw
Support Ukraine NOW
Support Ukraine NOW tries to engage a network of Ukrainian and international activists to provide the most effective and immediate help to Ukraine. They collect medical aid and bulletproof vests, as well as organizing social impact projects, and promoting inclusive and creative education programs. Donate to Support Ukraine NOW
Someone Prays for You
“Someone Prays for You” is a collaborative photo series begun by Ukrainian-Canadian artist Taras Polataiko, which showcases the works of elderly Ukrainians from the city of Chernivtsi. Elderly Ukrainians volunteer their art (embroideries, ceramics) to be photographed as part of a fundraiser for civilian defenders on the front lines. Proceeds of the prints benefit the civilian defenders (for medical supplies, body armor, night vision equipment, etc.) as well as the elderly artists who volunteered their works. Donate to Someone Prays for You
Children
Save Ukraine
Save Ukraine is the only public organization in Ukraine that regularly organizes and successfully conducts Rescue Missions to return Ukrainian children who had been deported to russia. It also assists survivors in documenting the children’s cases and helping children and families recover their psychological and physical health. Donate to Save Ukraine
Futurevia
Futurevia is a non-profit devoted to helping Ukrainian children affected by the war by providing secure lodging, access to food, and educational materials to Ukrainians. They are currently focusing on rebuilding schools in Chernihiv, a town heavily bombarded in the beginning of the war. Donate to Futurevia
Scholars
Friends of Krytyka – Ukrainian Cultural Rescue Fund
Ukrainian Cultural Rescue Fund for Krytyka envisions a goal of $300,000 to support the work of uprooted Ukrainian scholars and experts in the humanities now, and to help in reconstructing the humanities in Ukraine in the immediate postwar period. Donate to Friends of Krytyka
Shevchenko Emergency Fund
This fund supports scholars, writers, and artists who have been affected by russia’s war against Ukraine through residential and non-residential fellowships. Scholars are given stipends ranging from $500 to $2,000 in order to continue preserving Ukraine’s intellectual and cultural potential. Donate to Shevchenko Emergency Fund
War Crimes Accountability
Center for Civil Liberties
The CCL advocates for human rights, democracy, and solidarity in Ukraine and the OSCE region. It investigates war crimes committed by russian troops in Ukraine with the goal of justice for all victims. The organization won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize along with two other organizations. Current initiatives include “Tribunal for Putin,” which concentrates on documenting war crimes, and “Prisoner’s Voice,” which focuses on liberating those taken prisoner by russia. Donate to Center for Civil Liberties
The Reckoning Project
The Reckoning Project brings on-the-ground investigative journalists, who collect witness testimonies from sites of human rights violations, war crimes, and atrocities, together with lawyers. They work together to stamp out impunity through the courts of law, courts of public opinion, and available accountability pathways. Donate to The Reckoning Project
Support Ukrainian Media
Donate to The Kyiv Independent to keep the curtains up for the independent Ukrainian English-language journalism: Patreon, GoFundMe
Independent Ukrainian Media Outlets Run by a consortium of The Fix, Are We Europe, Jnomics and the Media Development Foundation, as well as multiple media partners from across Europe. They are working with a growing list of Ukrainian media, including Ukrainska Pravda, Zaborona, Detector Media and others. Support is allocated based on urgency of needs in the first place, then distributed proportionally.
Internews supports independent media in Ukraine. During the war, they have:
- Assisted 414 regional and national media outlets (some in temporarily occupied territories) to produce vital reporting
- Assisted 74 media-sector civil society organizations that serve to strengthen the independent media or journalists
- Offered training on war reporting, ethical standards, solutions journalism, physical safety, tactical first aid, digital hygiene, and cybersecurity to 1,987 journalists across Ukraine
- Supported the monitoring of violations of journalists’ rights and the provision of legal assistance for 1,106 journalists
- Contributed to the adoption of 4 public policies, including a new Law on Media and Law on Advertising
- Assisted 292 schools across Ukraine in adopting a media literacy curriculum
- Revised over 30 existing support projects for media production and processed around 20 emergency funds for struggling local newsrooms, including in occupied territories
You can donate to Internews to fund their support for Ukrainian media outlets, or you can follow the links on their website to donate or subscribe to vetted news sources directly.