Vovk Foundation
UKRAINE: The Greatest Humanitarian Crisis Since World War II
The Vovk Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, was established in 2023 to offer assistance and support to Ukrainians and those of Ukrainian ancestry and as a tribute to two outstanding men and their beloved homeland.
What we do
Our Focus
We’re helping Ukraine with initiatives embodying the legacy of two revered individuals and their important lifetime contributions in these areas.
Education
Provide targeted financial support and scholarships.
Entrepreneurship
Support the development of entrepreneurialism.
Innovation
Promote defense and commercial innovation activities.
The Rebuild
Help restore industrial, scientific, and educational infrastructure.
Truth Seeking
Amplify the facts about Ukraine and Ukrainian Nationalism.
In Gratitude
HONORING A LEGACY
We honor the memory of two patriarchs: Fedir Vovk (Ivan Vovchuk), third from left, noted scholar, writer, and leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), and his son Andrew, center, who would become an accomplished engineer and technologist.
What Drives Us
Our Mission
Vovk Foundation’s mission is three-pronged, just like the trident on the Ukrainian coat of arms.
Provide opportunities for students, entrepreneurs, engineers, and scientists to advance their scholarship and work in the face of the unjustified and savage invasion of Ukraine by the nation of Russian terrorists.
Address enormous material losses to industrial, scientific, and educational infrastructure.
Amplify the facts about Ukraine and Ukrainian Nationalism.
Help Vovk Foundation Take Small Steps to Help a Larger Cause
Situation at a Glance
10,000
UN-Confirmed Civilian Deaths Resulting from the Conflict
Statista—November 2023
12.2 MILLION
Refugees from Ukraine Recorded across Europe
Statista—November 2023
5.4 million
People Internally Displaced Across Ukraine
IOM—January 2023
508 Children Killed
1,138 injured in Ukraine since full-scale russian invasion
Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine—October 2023
15.8 Million
Ukrainians reached with Humanitarian Assistance since March 2022
UN—December 2022
The Heroism of Ivan Vovk
A plaque was erected at the site of a school in Nikopol, Ukraine, where Ivan Vovk and his wife taught. He hid a fellow teacher, Sara Bakst, and Sara’s mother and nephew, who were all Jews, over a three-year period when the Germans occupied Nikopol in 1941. In 1998, Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, named Ivan and his wife “Righteous Among Nations.”
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