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Patreon suspends NGO account collecting money for Ukrainian military

The Verge

Patreon says it’s suspended the crowdfunding page for “Come Back Alive,” a Ukrainian NGO that was collecting money to support the the country’s military in response to Russian aggression. Save a Life’s Patreon tiers were named after military equipment. Screenshot: Patreon.

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What happened when this entrepreneur put her startup on hold to help Ukraine, and told VCs to donate

TechCrunch

When Russia invaded her home country of Ukraine, U.K.-based But although her fundraiser raised plenty of money, Khi realized there was no viable NGO to distribute the supplies on the ground in the middle of a fast-moving war zone. This led her to creating the Sunflower Relief NGO. The next few weeks were a blur.

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A View of the Cloud from Brazil

Tech Soup

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. We discussed cloud adoption in Brazil's NGO sector with Valter Cegal of TechSoup Brasil. ATN is an NGO association of over 2,000 telecenters.

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Global Philanthropy

Tech Soup

A recent publication titled Global Philanthropy , from the Mercator Fund , a project of the Network of European Foundations, helps bring the variable global philanthropic landscape to light. The legacy of this situation "poisoned the whole notion of volunteering in Russia for many years.".

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Senators Urged To Protect NGOs Via Systems, Staffing, Sanctions

The NonProfit Times

Gigauri testified that Georgian citizens had been struggling against the anti-NGO laws influenced by Russia which “… amplify Russian anti-Western disinformation, cultivate social division and undermine partnership with the U.S. institutions to take the lead in promoting NGO freedoms within Georgia. “It

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Secretary of State Rubio says 83% of USAID programs are canceled

Fast Company Tech

Rubio made the announcement in a post on X, in one of his relatively few public comments on what has been a historic shift away from U.S. Agency for International Development ,and he would move the 18% of aid and development programs that survived under the State Department. efforts abroad the Trump administration actually supports.

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