The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has announced additional grants from its #StandWithUkraine Fund to organizations providing direct relief to Ukrainian refugees and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine following Russia’s invasion. To date, the fund has raised more than $2.1 million. The latest recipients include the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, the Polish Center for International Aid, Wadi, the Jewish Community of Moldova, and JCC Budapest.

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation has announced a new partnership with the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in support of humanitarian relief efforts for scientists forced to flee from Ukraine by the Russian invasion. Part of a $3 million fund pledged for humanitarian relief, the foundation will dedicate $1 million to NAS’s Scientists and Engineers in Exile and Displaced (SEED) initiative, which helps scientists and engineers maintain their livelihoods and dignity during the current upheaval, remaining employed and connected to the global scientific community.

Four Class I railroads have donated nearly $2.3 million to support humanitarian efforts in Ukraine and the surrounding region, Freight Waves reports. Rail equipment manufacturers Wabtec and Greenbrier have also said previously that they are supporting their employees’ efforts to donate to humanitarian efforts in the region. Union Pacific will support relief efforts in Ukraine by providing a total of $500,000 to the American Red Cross and Save the Children. UP also is offering a 2:1 match for donations from employees, who have provided nearly $50,000 to the Salvation Army, American Red Cross, UNICEF, Global Giving Foundation, Doctors Without Borders, and Save the Children. In March, Kansas City Southern pledged to provide $500,000 to the American Red Cross and to match employees’ contributions for the effort. On March 9, Canadian Pacific pledged C$500,000 ($399,000) to the Canadian Red Cross and that it would match employee donations to the Canadian Red Cross and American Red Cross for 30 days as well as donations to other aid agencies supporting Ukraine relief efforts via CP’s employee charitable giving program. And Canadian railway CN has committed a total of C$1.1 million ($879,000) to the Canada-Ukraine Foundation and to Razom in the United States to assist displaced Ukrainians.

The Global Fund for Children has announced that it received more than $1 million in pledges to its Emergency Response Fund to be used to assist partner organizations in Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania that are aiding Ukrainian refugees.

Google, which had previously committed $35 million in funding and in-kind support for humanitarian aid efforts in Central and Eastern Europe, has announced a new grant for refugees with disabilities, as well as a grant and Google.org Fellowship to Tech to the Rescue, a Polish nonprofit that connects tech companies and expert volunteers with humanitarian aid organizations to help solve technical needs. A team of Google.org Fellows will work on a pro-bono basis to help build and scale their platform and efforts.

Johnson & Johnson, which in February committed a total of $5 million to the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) to provide humanitarian support for Ukrainian refugees in the countries bordering Ukraine, has doubled its commitment to $10 million. It also pledged other support and resources to International Health Partners (IHP, U.K.), Americares, Direct Relief, IFRC, Save the Children, and UNICEF. As part of its latest pledge, the company also will suspend its supply of personal care products to Russia.

True Russia, a fundraising campaign established by dancer and artistic director Mikhail Baryshnikov, economist Sergei Guriev, and writer Boris Akunin, has raised more than £844,000 (more than $1.1 million) via GoFundMe for the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), Vanity Fair reports. Partners in the effort include Save the Children, OXFAM, and Action Against Hunger, all of which are working to support the millions of refugees streaming out of Ukraine.

To address a scarcity of kosher Passover food in Ukraine, the UJA-Federation of New York has worked with four local synagogues to collect 12,000 pounds of holiday food that will be distributed to Jews remaining in Ukraine as well as Jewish refugees who have been forced to flee. Food was collected at synagogues in Long Island, Westchester, and Manhattan by the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty for shipment to Ukrainian Jewish communities.

For more information about philanthropic response to the war in Ukraine, see Candid’s special issues page.

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