Public or Private? Funding Debate Splits Reeling Aid Sector

Public or private? Funding debate splits reeling aid sector

As cuts by rich donors decimate aid budgets for the world's most vulnerable, private financing has been touted as the sector's saviour -- but not everyone is convinced.

Ukrainian Aid Projects Wither as Western Funding Drops

Cutting US Aid Jeopardizes the Lives of Ukrainian Civilians

At the rendezvous point outside the city of Kupiansk, the vehicles park under whatever tree cover is available. The brilliant, cloudless blue sky means Russian reconnaissance drones can easily spot the approaching small convoy, containing 11 residents who have agreed to leave this part of Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region.  “They watch everything,” Denis Stoyanov, a volunteer with a charity evacuating people from the front lines, tells me. I…

Ukrainian aid projects wither as Western funding drops

By Elizabeth Piper

As US aid to Ukraine dries up, new platform connects Americans investors with Ukrainian startups

Hans Braunfisch wants Americans to invest in Ukrainian startups, but there's a problem: there's no clear path for individual investors to put money into the more than 26,000 Ukrainian startups out there.The former PwC consultant plans to change that with Pravo Venture, a platform streamlining foreign investment for Ukrainian startups. Think of it like a meeting point for Ukrainian companies and U.S. investors accredited by the Securities and Exc…

Panicked U.N. Calls Aid Crisis Meeting After U.S. Funding Withdrawal

Send money. That is the message the U.N. delivered as it hosted the biggest appeal for funds in a decade following the withdrawal of the U.S. from aid agreements brokered by the globalist body.