25/09/2024

Civic tech developments from CSOs

Read about 10 civic tech solutions from the public sector to address the challenges of war. They were developed with the support of the Phoenix project

10/09/2024

Small Initiatives with Big Enthusiasm

The Experience of Bezlyudivska Territorial Community

29/08/2024

Women’s Power of Ukraine

Supporting the State by Supporting the Families of Defenders

26/08/2024

Creating Dobropillia

How Activists in a Frontline Town Unite for Change

19/08/2024

Sustainable Growth Amidst War

The Story of Podil Agency for Regional Development

26/07/2024

The Role of ‘Crisis Psychological Assistance’ in Support to Overcome Grief

"Theoretically, grief counseling should commence four months post-tragedy, I cannot turn away those who seek help earlier,” Olena Shylova

23/07/2024

BUR: Pioneering Spaces of Reconstruction

Dissolving Boundaries – about cooperation with the volunteer camp of the NGO Building Ukraine Together (BUR)

22/07/2024

Rebuilding Their Axis: To Create a Business School

For the past decade, the feminist organization “Vis” (Axis) has been supporting internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Vinnytsia and the surrounding region

27/06/2024

Support Amidst War

How Kremenchuk Creates Safe Spaces for IDPs

24/05/2024

Pumping Water Can Be Done Efficiently

The Nizhyn Water Supply and Sewerage Management in the Chernihiv region has undergone a tough time because of the war. Explore how the company supported Power Up! project in this story.

26/04/2024

Revitalizing and Transforming CHP Plants

Established in 2023, Teplocomunenergo is a community-led initiative in Chernihiv tasked with managing the local CHP plant. This article explores how the company guarantees residential heating.

24/04/2024

Warmth in Chuhuiv Style

Before the great war, ME "Chuhuivteplo" was the city’s heating lifeline. However, enemy bombardment severely damaged most of the boiler houses and heating networks.

19/04/2024

Even Amidst War, the Water Flows On

Despite being encircled by hostile forces, Sumy Water Services Company persevered, recognizing the indispensability of their services to the local populace.

16/04/2024

Mentoring in Project Management

Experts from the PMI have made a remarkable contribution to the education of public servants. These invited mentors offered individual consultations to participants. Discover how this unfolded in our narrative.

10/04/2024

Help for The Sake of Bread

As the full-scale invasion commenced, the Chernihiv region was the first to face the onslaught. Bakery No. 2 ensured the delivery of baked goods to shelters.

05/04/2024

A Ray of Sunshine for Sumy’s Agriculture

Agricultural company "Severinivska" was damaged by enemy shelling. In particular, in the energy sector. Read how support from the "Power Up!" project helps the company work.

29/03/2024

“We Care Deeply, and We Are Not Alone in This Journey"

In a bid to support the region, the Regional Development Agency “Office of European Integration” in Kherson Oblast has reignited its operations through the “Recovery and Resilience” program.

28/03/2024

How to manage projects to benefit Ukraine

The story of Viktoriia Hlushko, a civil servant who enrolled in the Recovery and Resilience Program. Read this article to learn how the knowledge of project management can help to work during the war.

29/02/2024

With Bakhmut at Heart

This is the tale of the “Bakhmut Community Development Agency”, a Civil Society Organization (CSO)

27/02/2024

The Journey of the CSO “Building the Future Together”

The “Building the Future Together” Charitable Foundation has emerged as a beacon of hope for the residents of the Kharkiv region, deeply affected by the russian invasion.

23/02/2024

From Journalism to Volunteering: A Single Step

The Kherson-based CSO has been providing aid since the onset of the full-scale invasion, persevering through occupation, the destruction of the Kakhovka HPP, and daily shellings.

10/01/2024

How Repair Together NGO Turn a Volunteer Cleanup Into a Party

Repair Together NGO encourages the work of volunteers and rebuilds the villages affected by the war in Chernihiv Oblast

30/12/2023

How Solomiansky Kotyky Save Lives

A fund that works in the field of pre-medical care and mine action

25/12/2023

“Sometimes minutes count when you have saved a person's life”

Co-founder of the NGO Volunteer about volunteer training in Ukraine

20/12/2023

Good Morning, We Are From Mariupol: How Mariupol Residents Help Other IDPs

As a resettlement organization, Eleos-Donetsk promoting a culture of volunteering and charity

13/12/2023

Ukraine Recovery as a Way to Educate Youth

How BUR forms its community of camp leaders

11/12/2023

“They say that the state should provide us with everything...”

A volunteer from the Lviv region created a fire brigade in the village

06/12/2023

An old outpatient clinic, and a 70-year-old partisan

As a volunteer doctor, she visited the de-occupied Kherson region

05/12/2023

Supporting Those Who Support

About the experience of supporting volunteer centers in Kirovohrad region

04/12/2023

“If everyone acts the way I do...”

Three stories about the State Emergency Service volunteers: about a doctor, a rescuer, and a firefighter

02/09/2023

People Finally Got a Chance to Speak Out

How the Invincible (Nezlamni) Hub Works in the De-Occupied City

28/08/2023

Humanitarian and Psychological Aid

How Activists from Kramatorsk Help IDPs

25/08/2023

The story of grantee: “MIG” newspaper

How a Zaporizhzhia weekly newspaper continued to print special editions of the newspaper despite being close to the frontlines, a lack of funding, blackouts, shelling, and propaganda

22/08/2023

The story of a "Stiykist'" Programme grantee Sebto Media

About the transformation from an educational center to a complete comprehensive media in the conditions of a full-scale war, about courageous experiments and loyalty to one's audience

20/08/2023

Community experience: Trostyanets

What happened in the first days after the invasion? What kind of destruction did the community suffer, how did it recover, and how is Trostianets overcoming the challenges now?

17/08/2023

Сommunity experience: Chervonohrad

About the life of the Chervonohrad community during the war, successful examples of local community communication with IDPs and cooperation with partner cities

11/08/2023

Сommunity experience: Starobilsk

About the life of the Starobilsk community from the first month under occupation and plans for the post-war Ukrainian future

10/08/2023

Community experience: Drohobych

Practices of adaptation and integration of internally displaced persons, effective interaction between local governments and new residents

02/08/2023

Russians stopped broadcasting

How local media have withstood the full-scale war and offered their audiences a new and much-needed product

20/06/2023

Shelter for IDP Women

The Lviv-based NGO Women’s Perspectives Center helps women who have fled from territories under occupation or active hostilities.

28/04/2023

Women's leadership

How a librarian from a village in Volyn Oblast headed the Citizen Activity Centre in Ukraine, which became the headquarters of women’s leadership

21/04/2023

Place of Power in Uzhhorod

After relocating to Uzhhorod, the organization continued to work with both local and displaced Romani women who moved to Transcarpathia to escape the war

04/04/2023

Social enterprise in a frontline city

The AnVita clinic successfully operated in Dobropillya town, Donetsk region, until February 2022, but Russian aggression endangered not only the operation of the clinic but also people's lives. A microgrant from the EU4Business programme helped to save the business.

04/04/2023

The Art of Dance During the War

Kyiv became a new home for the choreographer, where Liliya decided to start her business from scratch. A microgrant from the EU4Business provided support for her.

30/03/2023

Fighting fake news

How the SVOI chatbot helped combat disinformation in Smidyn community at the beginning of the great war

  

09/03/2023

Clear the land of enemies and pests

At the beginning of the Great War, the business of “NPC DESPROFMED” was almost completely destroyed. A microgrant from the EU4Business programme helped them to resist.

02/03/2023

Yummy snEco Snacks

To survive, the company Prime Snack had to be relocated from Kharkiv to Mukachevo. The manufacturing at a new place has been resumed thanks to a microgrant from EU4Business.

22/02/2023

Youth and e-democracy tools

A pizza box and a little determination: How the Bershad Community’s Youth Council managed to become the leader of electronic surveys in the Vinnytsia Oblast

09/02/2023

Sweet Enterprise in Bitter Times

A few months after the start of Russia’s full-scale war, Larisa Kapranova started life from scratch in Kyiv. A microgrant from the EU4Business program was a significant help.

31/01/2023

Saving Itself and the Military

The spring of 2022 could have been the last one for the OrtoSano Clinic. A microgrant by the EU4Business programme became a lifeline for the business.

25/01/2023

Clear Water during the Great War

Svitlana Molchanova’s company, Clear Water, has not stopped its work since the war’s outbreak. Yet, the company was on the verge of going out of business at the war’s outset. The EU4Business programme’s microgrant helped the company stay in business to serve its customers in existential conditions.

19/12/2022

To Learn and Not Give Up

How a Poltava computer science school teacher continues to teach children during the Russian war on Ukraine

02/11/2022

Working for Victory

How Natalia Pokryshchuk led Illintsi Citizen Activity Center to become the community working so hard to near the victory

20/10/2022

Brave and Strong in Spirit

A doctor from Donetsk oblast lost his home and workplace but found aspiration to keep working thanks to the grant financial support

22/04/2022

We like it here, but we miss home

Vinnytsia oblast became a shelter for many internally displaced persons. We share some stories of people who found a temporary home here

15/04/2022

We moved on, assisting each other

Iryna tells how she left Chernihiv on the tenth day of war and found shelter in Ivano-Frankivsk oblast

14/04/2022

The Civic Leadership Academy was the discovery of the year for me

How the Academy helped to find like-minded people and organize the first art festival in Sloviansk

22/02/2022

At the Academy, I finally found myself

How did the Civic Leadership Academy help Oksana Kotikova, a volunteer from Mariupol, find herself

21/02/2022

How coaching helped to listen to myself

Coaching often leads to quite unexpected results. How it is influenced community activist from Konotop Yevhen Pavlov – in this story

16/02/2022

How to support CSO team during COVID-19

About materly leadership style and small improvements every month - the story of the project manager of the CSO "Peli can live"

15/02/2022

After the Academy, just take it and do it

How the knowledge gained at the Civic Leadership Academy helps to make a dream come true

08/02/2022

The discussion at the Academy is surprising and inspiring

How the Academy helped to understand that all "space" plans can be realized through the exchange of knowledge and experience

03/02/2022

Coaching showed me how to think differently

Public activism and other main place of work. How to combine and how can coaching help? Read in the material.

01/02/2022

The Academy spurred me to start moving

How studying at the Civic leadership academy helped Ludmila Absava, the head of the Global View NGO, hold the first-ever Kherson Zero Waste Eco-Festival

27/01/2022

To overcome challenges and grow

How coaching can help to preserve the organisation and ensure its long-term growth.

20/01/2022

Coaching to help

How coaching helps to Irina Saranch, the Chair of the Board at NGO "Parostok", to overcome professional burnout

08/11/2021

Shkilniy Vulyk

How schoolkids in Kyiv Oblast tried commercial beekeeping—and succeeded

06/11/2021

Overcoming the effects of the pandemic

How the EEF supported Ukraine’s legislature during the COVID-19 pandemic

05/11/2021

The power of the public budget

How an activist saved her neighborhood from traffic accidents