When Crisis Becomes the Context: What Ukraine Reveals About War, Environment, and Philanthropy in the Decade Ahead
Foundations for Ukraine, Philea, the Council on Foundations and WINGS will host “When Crisis Becomes the Context: What Ukraine Reveals About War, Environment, and Philanthropy in the Decade Ahead” online on 26 February.
Overlapping crises are becoming the operating environment for the next decade. War, climate stress, environmental damage, and economic instability increasingly unfold simultaneously – yet our work is still largely structured to address them one at a time.
As the full-scale invasion of Ukraine enters its fourth year, this gap is becoming impossible to ignore. Urgency continues, but long-term decisions can’t wait. Ukraine brings this reality into sharp focus at the intersection of war and environment:
energy systems rebuilt under attack, environmental damage accumulating with global consequences, and resilience shaped under constant pressure. The familiar divide between emergency response and long-term transformation has collapsed.
What can philanthropy learn from operating under these conditions? What patterns are emerging across other war- and climate-affected contexts? And what does this era of simultaneity mean for philanthropic practice in the decade ahead?
Taking place during Philea’s Year of Climate and Environment, this 90-minute online conversation invites foundations and institutional donors to reflect on Ukraine not only as a country under invasion, but as an early signal of the conditions that might increasingly shape philanthropic work in the next decade.
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