World Skills Employment Centre
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 871616603RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
No spending breakdown could be derived from this charity’s most recent filing — the receipt can’t be printed. The figures it did file are below.
World Skills Employment Centre is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $5.9M in revenue and $5.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 82% from government, 16% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $149K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 0% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 30 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.4M in 2020 to $5.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Serving the employment needs of new Canadian job seekers in Ottawa and the surrounding areas and Settlement Online Pre-Online Services
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.9M | $5.9M | — | — | $0 | $666K |
| 2023 | $5.3M | $5.3M | $0 | $0 | $0 | $709K |
| 2022 | $4.8M | $4.8M | — | — | $0 | $731K |
| 2021 | $3.5M | $3.5M | — | — | $0 | $623K |
| 2020 | $3.4M | $3.3M | — | — | — | $613K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $149K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions30
- Total compensation, all staff$4.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Carl Nicholson (president); Mercy Lawluvi (vice-president); Fred Awada (vice-president); Kenny Leon (vice-president); Mengistab Tsegaye (executive director); Abdulrazak Karod (vice-president); Sarah Caspi (vice-president); Mary Roman (secretary); Myriam Mekni (treasurer); Sharon Khan (vice-president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from World Skills Employment Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 871616603RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.