TKTara Kolar Bryan

1. Article · Jul 22, 2026 · Tara Kolar Bryan, University of Tennessee

   Czech nonprofits applied lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic to the Ukrainian refugee crisis – but had little say in key decisions (opens the original)

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   (KNOXVILLE, TN) Within a few months of Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, more than 500,000 Ukrainian refugees arrived in the Czech Republic. Social service nonprofits responded immediately. They organized emergency housing, connected refugees with schools and healthcare, helped families navigate government services and distributed food and other basic necessities. In the first weeks of the crisis, those nonprofits relied on volunteers and existing community networks to meet urgent ne

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