Ukrainian World Congress

The project

The Ukrainian World Congress, founded in 1967, is the international body representing the worldwide Ukrainian diaspora: over 25 million people in more than 80 countries. It advocates internationally, runs a portfolio of global initiatives, and functions as an umbrella for national organisations on several continents.

Digitally, that makes it an unusual client. It is not one website. It is a family of them: the main advocacy hub, a fundraising initiative supplying the military, an energy-restoration programme, a flagship annual summit, a youth foundation, a Holodomor awareness programme. Each has its own audience, its own donors and its own urgency, and all of them have to look and behave like parts of one institution.

What we did

DForce acts as the external IT and design department behind the UWC's digital presence.

• The main multilingual hub (EN/UA/ES) with a news centre filtered by region and topic, programme pages, leadership and history sections, and annual reports. For an advocacy organisation, the archive is the credibility.
• The digital backbone connecting the sub-initiatives - UniteWithUkraine, Energize Ukraine, the Global Ukrainian Summit, the Youth Leadership Foundation and others - so a visitor moving between them stays inside one organisation rather than falling out of it.
• Donation and support flows, including the split between supporting the Congress itself and supporting the Ukrainian World Foundation.
• Volunteer, careers, media and contact paths, including a 24/7 media contact, because press enquiries about Ukraine do not respect office hours.
• Ongoing design and development support across the whole ecosystem rather than a single delivered project.

Engineering notes

• One institution, many products. The hardest part is not any individual site: it is keeping a consistent identity, navigation logic and donation experience across properties that launch at different times for different reasons.
• Three languages on a news-heavy site. EN, UA and ES have to hold across a continuously growing archive, not just across static pages.
• Region as a content dimension. Communities in 80+ countries mean news and programmes are filtered by region, so a reader in Argentina and one in Canada see the same organisation through different entry points.
• Availability during spikes. UWC's traffic is event-driven and correlates with news out of Ukraine, so the properties have to survive attention arriving all at once.

Highlights

• One team maintaining a connected family of high-visibility sites
• Multilingual, multi-region content for a global audience
• A long-term partnership powering advocacy, fundraising and events

Services: Product, Design, Engineering. · ukrainianworldcongress.org