1. RAZOM CULTURE
celebrates and promotes
awareness of Ukraine’s
vibrant art and culture
RAZOM AID
provides humanitarian aid
to Ukrainians in need
For Razom volunteers, 2016 was a year of
investment and institution building. Volunteers
hunkered down and did lots of behind-the-
scenes work. We hope you noticed some of it,
like finding out about projects from the new
website. We also made it easier for volunteers
to meet in person by hosting get-togethers in
New York, Washington, Austin, Chicago, and
Kyiv. We’re excited to work shoulder-to-shoulder
in the US and in Ukraine on specific projects,
crossing time zones and oceans.
Toy Drive continued sending personal packages
to families in Ukraine. They sent gifts to an
orphanage in Karapchivskiy and helped out St.
Nicholas in delivering gifts to children in Ukraine
for the holidays.
Over the summer, the Toy Drive team took on
the special School Drive project. Volunteers
bought and filled 232 backpacks with school
supplies and sent them to 8 volunteer centers in
Ukraine where they were delivered to children of
ATO victims.
In 2016 Razom Culture acted as a platform for
artists in various fields to collaborate on Ukraine
themed projects.
We hosted events that gave the audience a
chance to experience contemporary Ukrainian
music, art, film, and fashion. All in one evening.
For instance, Razom. Art. Jam party started with
a video installation by Sashko Danylenko and
included music performances by Roman Bardun
Trio, Letters to Nepal, pianist Alex Pryrodny, and
a fashion show by Ira Lysa.
At Soyuzivka, we co-hosted a film festival showing
the diversity of films being made in Ukraine.
2016
IN REVIEW
Our preliminary financials based on accounting
up to December show:
$74,649 in revenue
$68,019 in expenses
All of our projects are funded mostly by
individual donations. This year we are grateful
for the support of 134 donors.
Our mission is ​to ​help build a prosperous
Ukraine by increasing civic engagement within
the country and by amplifying the voices of
Ukrainians around the world.​​Thank you for all
your support, time and contributions. We look
forward to continuing to work together in the
coming year.
FINANCIALS
www.razomforukraine.org

2. RAZOM PARTNERS
supports individuals and
organizations who are
building a prosperous and
democratic Ukraine
We held 6 speaker series events, showcasing
interesting projects and building the
entrepreneurial tech community with roots in
Ukraine in New York.
The year culminated with the Razom IT Summit,
which allowed for a valuable exchange of
experience and ideas between Ukrainian and
U.S. technology communities. The keynote
speech showed how ProZorro used technology
to battle corruption.
5 start-ups from Ukraine took part in Razom IT
Trip, a week-long immersive program in New
York designed to help teams from Ukraine
accelerate the development of their ventures.
REFORMERS
WITHOUT
BORDERS
sends fellows to support
reforms on the ground
in Ukraine
We co-hosted a discussion on Ukraine’s history
in Columbia and visited SIT Graduate Institute
for a 4-hour conversation with Masters students.
Project OKO continued monitoring media
mentions of Ukraine in 13 languages. Using
information on almost 1,000,000 articles in the
database, we published 10 reports on coverage
of Ukraine in the world. Media, organizations
and governmental institutions used data for
their own analysis.
To inform and engage policymakers, volunteers
prepared a 100+ page report titled U.S. Policy on
Ukraine: Challenges and Opportunities that will
be released early 2017.
Continuing our Hromadske Radio fundraising
campaign, we sent $4,500 in grants for the
development of original radio programming. For
Hromadske’s week-long trip in U.S., we arranged
the program that connected them with their U.S.
counterparts in public radio.
We helped bring 16 artists to Galicia Cult, a
multidisciplinary social-cultural forum that aims
to introduce eastern Ukrainians to modern
western-Ukrainian culture.
We supported the participation of students
representing Ukraine at at the International
Mathematical Olympiad in Hong Kong.
Fellows and consultants worked in Ukraine to
positively influence local government officials
and civil society activists. We found that the
work delivers real results both in terms of
the assigned tasks, as well as by changing the
attitudes and motivations of everyone involved
for the better.
In Odesa, our fellow Hugo led logistical
preparations for an international conference
between EU and Ukraine, conducted 10 field
visits around the region to identify development
challenges and potential projects, provided
translation services, led English-language
training series for Odesa Customs, and more.
RAZOM THINK
incorporates perspectives
from Ukraine into
academic agenda of
western nations
RAZOM IT
supports the growth of an
engaged middle class by
cultivating the tech start-up
ecosystem of Ukraine
www.razomforukraine.org