Nonprofit involved with 1,400 California schools accused of fraud, under investigation in Canada
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A well-known international nonprofit that s promoted service work to more than 400,000 California students and has been highly endorsed by Gov. Gavin Newsom is being investigated in Canada.
A Parliamentary committee investigating WE Charity held a hearing Thursday about the nonprofit s business dealings. The charity became scrutinized after receiving a $900 million COVID contract in June to oversee a student service grant in Canada intended to help students with volunteering.
A similar program already existed. We all stopped and said wait. what? said Charlie Angus, a Canadian member of Parliament, who sits on a committee investigating WE Charity for the past eight months.
Nonprofit involved with 1,400 California schools being investigated by Canadian parliamentary committee
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A well-known international nonprofit that s promoted service work to more than 400,000 California students and has been highly endorsed by Gov. Gavin Newsom is being investigated in Canada.
A Parliamentary committee investigating WE Charity held a hearing Thursday about the nonprofit s business dealings. The charity became scrutinized after receiving a $900 million COVID contract in June to oversee a student service grant in Canada intended to help students with volunteering.
A similar program already existed. We all stopped and said wait. what? said Charlie Angus, a Canadian member of Parliament, who sits on a committee investigating WE Charity for the past eight months.
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After Don Jennison died in April 2005, his wife of 50 years, Joyce, wanted to honor him in a special way: Instead of a tombstone, she put $4,000 toward building a school in Kenya to better honor her husband, a former principal.
Sales of fair-trade coffee at the Jennisonsâ church helped raise enough money to fund a schoolhouse, a teacherâs salary for two years, and a latrine. Two years after construction, WE Charity, then known as Free The Children, sent pictures of âDonâs School Houseâ â a tidy cinderblock building with a white plaque embedded in a shield-like concrete mount. âThis school has been built in memory of Don Jennison,â it read, âthrough the generous donation of Morningside-High Park Presbyterian Church Toronto, Canad
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