Feel Good Friday: Resources for Ukrainian Support

 
 

Every Friday at 10am, the entire team at West + Main Homes Colorado comes together in a virtual meeting room to learn, share, grow, and connect.

The Executive Team provides updates regarding the state of the local and national Real Estate industry, sometimes there are special industry guests or a panel of agents sharing lessons learned, success stories, or something else that the entire group can benefit from.

West + Main agents are also invited to nominate their favorite non-profit organization. All of the nominees are entered into a drawing, and a winner is randomly drawn at the end of our meeting to receive a $500 donation from West + Main on behalf of the agent who nominated them.

We call it Feel Good Friday!

This week we asked for nominations in support of the current crisis in Ukraine. Meet this week’s Featured cause, nominated by West + Main staff member
Rylie Perrault:

 
 

Learn more about Help Ukrainian media keep going

What is our Mission?

Ukraine is facing an unprecedented, full-scale war. Media across the country continue to operate under the most challenging circumstances.

They have shown extraordinary courage, but the reality on the ground is that most operations cannot continue from Ukraine alone. This fundraiser is aimed at helping media relocate, set-up back offices and continue their operations from neighboring countries.

Ways to support media activities in Ukraine (e.g., purchases of security equipment, paying drivers, medical care) are outlined below.

This campaign is run by a consortium of The Fix , Are We Europe , Jnomics and Media Development Foundation , as well as multiple media partners from across Europe.

We are working with a growing list of Ukrainian media, including Ukrainska Pravda, Zaborona, Detector Media and others. Support is allocated based on urgency of needs in the first place, then distributed proportionally.

Looking for ways to support?

Different support options:

- If you want to provide support to fund media operations in Ukraine, please reach out to Stichting Are We Europe Foundation.

- If you want to provide funds to individual media directly, contact us and we will provide a list with their details.

- We are running a separate fundraiser for the Kyiv Independent - if you can support them, please do so.

- If you are representing other independent media covering the war, want to be a part of the campaign and receive financial or any other help, please send a short description of your media and the list of urgent needs using the contact button on our fundraiser page (bear in mind immediate support on the ground is extremely difficult to provide).

- If you want to support local and regional media, which are covering the war in other parts of the country, you can also reach out directly to Media Development Foundation: https://www.facebook.com/mdfoundationUA

There are many organizations currently providing support for the Ukraine. Here are more resources:

Together Rising: https://togetherrising.org/ukraine/

Voices of Children: https://voices.org.ua/en/

Unicef: Support for families leaving Ukraine

International Rescue Committee: https://help.rescue.org/donate/crisis-in-ukraine

Kyiv Independent: https://kyivindependent.com/