How You Can Help Ukraine
Lists of places to donate and ways to help
Comprehensive list of ways foreigners can help (compiled by Global Shapers Community (born out of World Economic Forum) and supported by Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine).
Razom for Ukraine has an excellent list of ways you can help Ukraine and its people, including ways to donate, volunteer, and contact representatives for government support.
The Ukrainian Institute, London has also compiled a great list.
Ways to help Ukrainian pets that are displaced or must be left behind by refugees, compiled by BetterPet.
Donate (select beneficiaries)
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.
Sunflowers for Peace
Sunflower of Peace Foundation is a Boston, USA-based non-profit organization. Their current mission is to support the people of Ukraine affected by the Russian military invasion. They collaborate with a global network of established organizations and institutions that are committed to helping Ukraine in this situation.
Come Back Alive
Launched in 2014, Come Back Alive became the biggest organization providing support to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They have received over 20 million dollars from 50 countries. Come Back Alive is also fully transparent and offers open financial reporting on their website.
Support Ukraine NOW
Support Ukraine NOW is raising funds to purchase 100 bulletproof vests for Ukrainian frontline civilian defenders and volunteers through the website Open Collective Europe. Their fundraiser contains a list of FAQs, open financial reporting, etc.
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 are responding to the war by providing critical humanitarian war relief and recovery depending on the most urgent needs. They have detailed lists on their website of what they are focused on delivering, including tactical medicine items, hospital supplies, etc.
Ukrainian Armed Forces (National Bank of Ukraine)
The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The central bank’s decision comes after the Ukrainian government imposed martial law throughout Ukraine in response to armed aggression by Russia and the renewed threat to Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity. The account is accepting donations from multiple currencies, including U.S. dollars, euros and British pounds.
Recipe for Independence Foundation (Poland)
Recipe for Independence provides food at refugee shelters and delivers welcome packs to women and children with essential items at entry centers. The most important long-term programs are for children. They are aimed at preventing the effects of war trauma and helping them integrate into life in Poland. Workshops focus on care, fun, and openness and include sports, language classes, building connections, and more.
Someone Prays for You
“Someone Prays for You” is a collaborative photo series by Ukrainian-Canadian artist Taras Polataiko, which showcases the works of elderly Ukrainians from the city of Chernivtsi. Elderly Ukrainians are volunteering their art (embroideries, ceramics) to be photographed as part of a fundraiser for civilian defenders on the front lines. Proceeds of the prints will go to both the needs of civilian defenders, as well as the elderly artists who volunteered their works.
Support Ukrainian media and read factual information
You can donate to The Kyiv Independent to keep the curtains up for the independent Ukrainian English-language journalism: Patreon, GoFundMe
Independent Ukrainian Media Outlets GoFundMe: 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.
Recommended news sources in English: The Kyiv Independent, Kyiv Post, and The New Voice of Ukraine
Twitter accounts to follow - news: @KyivIndependent, @NewVoiceUkraine, @KyivPost
Twitter accounts to follow - scholars: @channelljustice, @SPlokhy, @Oleh_kotsyuba @dobczansky, @ksvarnon, @OKhromeychuk, @OxanaShevel, @darelasn, @JesZychowicz, @HJColeman68, @tanyalokot, @oonuch, @UmlandAndreas, @ykomska, @Marusiasays, @steven_seegel, @JohnVsetecka
Twitter accounts to follow - academic centers: @HURI_Harvard, @ShevchenkoSoc, @H__Ukraine, @DCRES_Harvard, @AAUS_says, @aseeestudies
Take part in local action
Contact your congressional representatives (see example message here)
Petition to ask NATO to close Ukrainian airspace/create a no-fly zone
Initiatives at Harvard / Universities
Non-Residential Fellowships in Support of Ukrainian Scholars: HURI is partnering with the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM, Vienna) to offer non-residential fellowships for Ukrainian scholars, cultural figures, and public intellectuals as part of the IWM’s longstanding Ukraine in European Dialogue program. These fellowships provide a one-time stipend of 5000 EUR to support recipients’ intellectual activities. We join IWM in inviting other institutions to join in this effort.
We're working with Harvard students, administration, and other universities to organize support for scholars displaced from Ukraine and preservation of important historical and academic data. ASEEES has compiled a list of initiatives and organizations based on the work of the International Task Force for Displaced Scholars.
Harvard students who are Ukrainian or who would like to support Ukraine can join the Harvard Ukrainian Student Society facebook group and sign up to the Harvard Ukrainian Solidarity Alliance mailing list.
You can donate to Harvard's Scholars at Risk program; we are working with them to assist scholars from Ukraine who want to temporarily relocate to an institution in the US.