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Representatives from U.S. civil society organizations, activists, and ordinary citizens who support Ukraine gathered on Sunday for a mass rally near the Lincoln Memorial downtown Washington DC. The event was held under the slogan “We stand for American values, we support Ukraine,” an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Frustration is mounting among Bay Area Ukrainians over the state of the war with Russia and with Washington. Igor Markov with Bay Area-based nonprofit NOVA Ukraine, says they are working to send critical aid on the ground in Ukraine even if the White House won't.
Reaction in the Bay Area to Friday's meeting with President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been swift and blunt.
In response to the 90-day suspension of U.S. foreign aid ordered by President Trump, Nova Ukraine is redirecting $500,000 to bridge financing for critical programs in Ukraine. This emergency action seeks to keep essential services operational, ensuring that those most at risk continue receiving support and preventing irreversible setbacks until funding resumes.
To mark International Migrants Day, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs organized an event to honour the contributions of the global Ukrainian community to Ukraine’s recovery and development and strengthen partnerships between diaspora organizations, the Government of Ukraine, and international stakeholders.
Nova Ukraine thanks the U.S. Senate for the overwhelming bipartisan vote that approved new aid for Ukraine, and to President Biden for signing the bill into law. The National Security package includes both military and fiscal aid for Ukraine.
Nova Ukraine was named one of the beneficiaries of a charity concert featuring GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell, BBC Music’s Personality of the Year 2023, conductor Dalia Stasevska, and the renowned INSO-Lviv Symphony Orchestra. The proceeds from the concert will go toward humanitarian aid for Ukraine with a portion of it dedicated to supporting Ukraine’s talented young artists. The concert took place at the Warsaw Philharmonic in Poland on January 10, 2024. Its program included Ukrainian-born Thomas de Hartmann’s Violin Concerto, as well as music by Ukrainian composers Skoryk, Silvestrov, and Stankovych. The event will be broadcast on Medici.tv, one of the largest classical music channels, on January 28, 2024. This charity concert was produced by Park Avenue Artists and supported by Chopivsky Family Foundation and Thomas de Hartmann Project. We express our sincere gratitude for their trust in Nova Ukraine’s efforts and recognize their valuable role in supporting Ukraine in these difficult times. The donations received by Nova Ukraine will be directed towards the organization’s various commitments to humanitarian aid efforts across Ukraine.
As Ukraine braces for another grueling winter of war, now is the time for fundraising efforts to step up. Any delay or diminishment would sadly but surely take Ukraine down the most devastating path in the coming months. It is with keen awareness and immeasurable commitment that Nova Ukraine pledges to solidify financial support from donors large and small. Thankfully, the Jets Foundation, on behalf of the NY Jets, has just announced another donation of $100K to Nova Ukraine. This donation is in addition to the $1M commitment made earlier and split among Nova Ukraine and its partners, which include Razom for Ukraine and The Ukrainian National Women’s League of America. Ukraine’s dire situation is personal for Jets Chairman Robert Johnson and his wife, Suzanne. Ms. Johnson’s roots lie in Ukraine. Her Ukrainian parents emigrated to NYC after WWII. Upon arrival, they settled into a Ukrainian neighborhood to raise their daughter in their homeland’s culture. Despite living her whole life in the US, Suzanne Johnson has a heart that weeps for Ukraine and its people.
“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.
Thanks to Veritas Investments in partnership with Nova Ukraine, newly arrived Ukrainian refugees have a place to stay for a period of 3 months in San Francisco.
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.
As we mark World Refugee Day, an international day to honor refugees, we invite you to celebrate the strength and courage of all those forced to flee their homes in Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion in February.
Zimmerman is a cofounder and marketing director of Nova Ukraine, a Silicon Valley-based organization founded in 2014, the same year as Putin's annexation of Crimea. The organization has raised more than $22.5 million in donations thus far, distributed as medical, evacuation, pet rescue and food aid. They've also collaborated with multiple international organizations, currently fundraising with UNICEF and collaborating with Airbnb to secure fleeing refugees with housing vouchers.
