BlueCheck fast-tracks funding to vetted Ukrainian organizations working on the front lines of the relief effort and delivers 90% of every dollar it raises directly to these groups. Local organizations know the operating context, speak the local language, maintain community-based networks to identify the most urgent needs, and can quickly pivot their programs to those changing realities. This has been exemplified by an analysis by the research organization Humanitarian outcomes that local Ukraine organizations received less than 1% of humanitarian funds even as these organizations provided upwards of 90% of the aid response to the war. BlueCheck Ukraine allows donors to fast track funds directly to these organizations through our network of more than 25 verified groups. They operate in every oblast – or state – of Ukraine and have been evacuating children, providing emergency medical care and mental health services, building shelters, distributing food and cash assistance, removing unexploded ordnance, and more.

At the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit, the aid community and institutional donors committed to "localizing aid" in response to growing calls for empowering locally led relief responses to armed conflicts, epidemics, man-made and natural disasters. The aid sector has struggled to approach anywhere close to the goal of directing 25% of funds directly to local organizations. BlueCheck's model does exactly this, ensuring that donors have an easy way of knowing where their money goes.

Beyond our minimal overhead costs, all funding is directed towards grants supporting verified frontline organizations in Ukraine. These grants ensure that aid reaches those most in need while also raising awareness of the critical role local Ukrainian organizations play in humanitarian response.

• Emergency medical care and medicine distribution
• Trauma and first aid training
• Food & relief supply distribution
• Emergency evacuation of trapped families
• Mental health services for Ukrainians
• Cash assistance to internally displaced people
• Care for children with special needs
• Support for elderly people besieged areas
• Shelter rehabilitation
• Unexploded ordnance removal