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For donors, wartime Ukraine aid creates blurry ethical line

AP NewsFebruary 24, 2023

[Nova Ukraine does not provide military aid due to our non-profit status. You can read about other organizations that focus on military aid in our FAQ]

“We’ve had these discussions countless times,” said Igor Markov, a director of the nonprofit Nova Ukraine, about where to draw the line between what aid is humanitarian versus that which supports the active defense — the fighting — in his home country. His Stanford, California-based organization, which delivered some $59 million in aid to Ukraine since Russia invaded a year ago, decided ultimately not to support volunteer fighters.

“We realized there’s a significant amount of money that would be ruled out,” he said, pointing to platforms that facilitate matching employee donations, like Benevity, and some companies, like Google, that require nonprofits to promise their aid does not support active fighting as a condition of receiving contributions.

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San Jose Donates Over $1 Million in Safety Equipment to Ukrainian First Responders

NBC Bay AreaJuly 8, 2022

San Jose officials announced Thursday that the city will donate more than $1 million in safety equipment to first responders in Ukraine.

The city plans to send 373 self-contained breathing apparatus air packs, 600 mask-mounted regulators, 183 air cylinders and several hundred self-contained breathing apparatus masks to the relief organizations Nova Ukraine and Firefighter Air Ukraine.

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