With the government inexplicably outsourcing management of its student "volunteer" program, let's take a tour through some WE Charity contracts that they've already had from the feds.
May 1, 2019 - contract with the Privy Council of Canada for $24,996.00 to give workshop services. No competition for the contract (look: it magically happened to hit below $25K)

https://open.canada.ca/en/search/contracts/reference/2988bed8ed97e5a9456b3087aa6f4262
Jan. 22 2020 - they held an event for Global Affairs Canada. It cost $40K. Limited tender process again. https://open.canada.ca/en/search/contracts/reference/58176fd03f6a89b5e88b568f45d60c36
July 10, 2019 - contract with the Public Health Agency of Canada for $24,990. Limited tender, again. For? Unspecified, other studies and analyses https://open.canada.ca/en/search/contracts/reference/e7afadee79be91d1a482fac5f86105ea
March 19, 2019 - another contract with the Privy Council. This time this is for honoraria for other services, not specificed. $17,050.34. https://open.canada.ca/en/search/contracts/reference/33d80d3216140bff17c4bbe79b3eedc8
March 31, 2017 - Operating as the American WE Charity, public relations services for Global Affairs Canada. In the commodity of Construction. $13,374.00. https://open.canada.ca/en/search/contracts/reference/f99addfb5fe701cc0c84cc21ce856674
Sep. 19, 2018 - G7 Ocean Student Education by WE for $25K for the Dept of Climate Change Canada (are they an enviro group?!): $25K

https://search.open.canada.ca/en/gc/id/ec,099-2018-2019-02-00085,current
Sep. 3, 2019 - a cool $3,000,000 for a description that literally says nothing of substance (I encourage you to read it!) from Employment and Social Development Canada: https://search.open.canada.ca/en/gc/id/esdc-edsc,141-2019-2020-Q2-00129,current
Jul. 3, 2018 - $887,155.00 for "innovative outreach" for Canada's youth employment strategy, Employment and Social Development Canada (no offense but fuck, if you gave me this money, I'd be way more innovative and I don't even know what it was) https://search.open.canada.ca/en/gc/id/esdc-edsc,141-2018-2019-Q2-00609,current
Apr. 1, 2019 - for "WE are inclusive!" -- $80K for: "Youth have opportunities to engage in youth-led projects in identified thematic areas" from Heritage Canada https://search.open.canada.ca/en/gc/id/pch,016-2018-2019-Q4-1322304,current
Apr. 1, 2019 - "We are inclusive!" again ... same description, same department but for $25,000.00 https://search.open.canada.ca/en/gc/id/pch,016-2019-2020-Q2-1322304,current
Feb. 28, 2017 - $1M from Canadian Heritage for a no-description, multi-year project https://search.open.canada.ca/en/gc/id/pch,GC-2016-Q4-03286,current
Apr. 20, 2017 - $180,000.00 from Canadian Heritage for probably the same no-description, multi-year project. https://search.open.canada.ca/en/gc/id/pch,GC-2017-Q1-00265,current
You can follow @NoLore.
Tip: mention @twtextapp on a Twitter thread with the keyword “unroll” to get a link to it.

Latest Threads Unrolled: