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Government Operations committee All we know is that they were going to be hiring a firm, National, to operate their program throughout Quebec.
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
Greg Thomson
Government Operations committee How may other organizations would be able to handle the project in Quebec?
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
Greg Thomson
Government Operations committee Unfortunately, I don't know the nature of a significant number of organizations in Quebec to be able to answer that question.
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
Greg Thomson
Government Operations committee We now have probably 760 to 780 charities that we've analyzed in the last two to three years. They're ones that we regularly update.
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
Greg Thomson
Government Operations committee We look at a number of things. We look at financial transparency, so how transparent the charity is with its financial statements. We look at donor accountability, so how well the charity reports on what it does and how it spends money. We look at some financial metrics to make s
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
Greg Thomson
Government Operations committee Our fifth and newest metric is what we call “demonstrated impact”. With it, we dive into each of the programs and try to understand what value those programs—
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
Greg Thomson
Government Operations committee Are you pulling that up, Kate?
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
Greg Thomson
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
Greg Thomson
Government Operations committee It is within Canada.
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
Greg Thomson
Government Operations committee That is as opposed to operations in developing countries. We found its operations within Canada were fair and its operations internationally were—
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
Greg Thomson
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
Greg Thomson
Government Operations committee No, it's not common. When we're analyzing a charity, we usually look at one set of financial statements and one organization. We will often look at two. If they have a foundation that's associated with an operating charity, or if there's a national charity that's associated with
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
Greg Thomson
Government Operations committee If you are on the board of directors or if you are an executive of a charity, any financial transactions that take place between you and the charity have to be fully disclosed in the audited financial statements. As a co-founder or a founder, there is no fiduciary responsibility
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
Greg Thomson
Government Operations committee Go ahead.
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
Greg Thomson
Government Operations committee In the past week, we have not done any further research on WE.
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
Greg Thomson