Thread by @DataRepublican

🧵THREAD: How Samantha Power gave USGLC power over USAID

(Thanks to @J_P1776 for the breadcrumb)

In 2022, USAID Administrator Samantha Power resurrected an old, mostly-forgotten advisory board, ACVFA (Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid) and gave it a new mission:

Bring America's top NGOs, business leaders, and global development experts directly into USAID's decision making.

In order to do so, she tapped her peers from the US Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC).

ACVFA pre-dates USAID, but did not have the influence it has now.

Until Power came on stage, ACVFA had met infrequently, their last meeting having been in 2019, and before that, 2017.

But Power's re-imagined ACVFA was to evolve it "to be not just an advisor to USAID, but a bridge linking the institution of USAID to nongovernmental organizations, to the private sector, to religious leaders, to civil society."

The board established in 2022 was praised as the "most diverse in the history of ACVFA" and its vision was to establish tighter partnerships - AKA bringing NGOs into the decision-making process.

Power directed that ACVFA decision-making on how to spend USAID dollars be done through the "lens of localization, diversity, inclusion, accessibility" - and climate change was a top priority as well.

Who was on ACVFA? Among its members serving since 2022, and is still on the board, is none other than the President and CEO of USGLC, Liz Schrayer.

Think about it. Liz Schrayer and USGLC took credit for getting the 95 billion dollar foreign aid passed through Congress last year.

Then Schrayer herself sits on the board which has advisory authority over where USAID dollars go.

How can that possibly be legal? I don't know.

But she's not the only one. Remember how I said that USGLC was plurality (perhaps majority over the years) backed by the Gates Foundation?

Enock Chikava, Interim Director of agricultural development of the Gates Foundation, sits on the ACVFA board as well.

The board also includes the presidents of both the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI). In other words, the Congressional NGOs, where sitting Republican and Democratic lawmakers are directly involved, have a hand in steering where USAID money goes.

No wonder they're so eager to protect USAID money!

C.D. Glin, Global Head of Philanthropy for PepsiCo, sits on ACVFA.

PepsiCo also sits on USGLC via Brigitte Schmidt Gwyn – Senior Vice President Government Affairs.

The full list of members is here:

⚪ Adriana Beltrán — Executive Director, Seattle International Foundation
⚪ Asma Lateef — Policy and Advocacy Lead, SDG2 Advocacy Hub
⚪ C.D. Glin — Global Head of Philanthropy, PepsiCo Inc. & Vice President, PepsiCo Foundation
⚪ Daniel Twining — President, International Republican Institute
⚪ Eka Tkeshelashvili — Senior Expert in Rule of Law, Anti-Corruption, Governance, and Justice Sector Reforms, Dexis Consulting Group
⚪ Enock Chikava — Interim Director, Agricultural Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
⚪ Hibak Kalfan — Executive Director, NEAR Network
⚪ Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim — President, Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad (AFPAT)
⚪ Jeremy Weinstein — Professor of Political Science, Director of Stanford Impact Labs, Stanford University
⚪ Johan Swinnen — Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
⚪ Julie Dorf — Co-Chair, Council for Global Equality
⚪ Kate Behncken — Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Philanthropies, Microsoft
⚪ Katherine Marshall — Professor of the Practice of Development, Conflict, and Religion, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
⚪ Kennedy Odede — CEO, Shining Hope for Communities
⚪ Kristin Lord — President and CEO, IREX
⚪ Levon Esters — Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate School, Pennsylvania State University
⚪ Liz Schrayer — President and CEO, US Global Leadership Coalition
⚪ Manuel Pulgar-Vidal — Global Leader of Climate & Energy, World Wildlife Fund
⚪ Michael Kobori — Chief Sustainability Officer, Starbucks
⚪ Nadia Murad — Founder and Chairwoman, Nadia’s Initiative
⚪ Nicole Clifton — President, Social Impact and The UPS Foundation
⚪ Olga Wall — CEO, Avallon Consulting LLC
⚪ Paul Weisenfeld — Executive Vice President for International Development, RTI International
⚪ Peter Laugharn — President and CEO, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
⚪ Saad Mohseni — Chairman and CEO, MOBY Group
⚪ Sanjay Pradhan — CEO, Open Government Partnerships
⚪ Tamara Wittes — President, National Democratic Institute
⚪ Teresa Barger — Co-Founder and CEO, Cartica

The connections go deep. For instance, Jeremy Weinstein is listed as a Stanford professor in the defunct USAID / ACVFA website, but he was Obama's Director for Development and Democracy for the National Security Council from 2009 to 2011 and afterwards Deputy to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

Julie Dorf is listed on ACVFA as "Co-Chair, Council for Global Equality" but she has a long LGBTQ+ advocacy history and was one of the WPATH consultants.

WPATH is accused of influencing research to establish its guidelines as the standard for gender-affirming care in children.

That's right, USAID dollars is being directed by one of the key players in modern children gender transition practice. @libsoftiktok

Kristin Lord is listed as the President and CEO of IREX (International Research & Exchanges Board).

Her longer biography - she is a board member of USGLC and also hails from Brookings Institution and other NGOs.

Once again.

Remember USGLC is funded by Gates Foundation and Open Society Foundation.

The first large Gates Foundation grant, which kickstarted it to the national stage, was in 2007 - the goal: "to educate and build awareness about the centrality of soft powers and increase commitment to greater investments in development, diplomatic and economic programs in such areas as global health."

In other words, outsource government functions to NGO which Soros and Gates exert control over.

Fast forward to 2022, and these "soft powers" aka NGOs got given massive advisory authority over where these dollars go.

Power was not shy about her intent to outsource these functions to NGOs. In a 23 May 2024 meeting transcript, she states an important issue is "how we shift more of our resources to local partners, to smaller organizations, to community-based organizations, faith leaders, and the like..."

(Sorry, 24 May 2023 meeting)

Power even stated a target of having 50% of all foreign assistance be ran by NGOs by 2030:

ACVFA had their last meeting in 2024, but the YouTube video is private. If someone from fedgov sees this, please make it public again:

More USGLC connection: C.D. Glin's LinkedIn lists him as a former board member of USGLC. He sits on ACVFA representing PepsiCo.

(Not finished yet, running a deep search...)

These companies receiving federal money were incentivized to follow woke agendas.

On his first day in office, Biden signed EO 13985, Executive Order On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.

In it, he directs each agency's head to prioritize funding for agendas that go towards advancing equity-related goals.

In other words, he ordered an audit of federal awardees.

I'll finish this thread for now. Here's the timeline:

🔹 2007: The Gates Foundation seeded the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC) with a major donation. Over time, Gates contributed $71M+, with millions more flowing in from the Open Society Foundation (Soros).

🔹 Official Mission: USGLC claimed to promote U.S. soft power globally.
Actual Practice: It worked to outsource government functions to private NGOs.

🔹 Lobbying Power: USGLC successfully pushed for billions in federal funding to be directed to businesses, nonprofits, and faith-based entities.

🔹 Dependency Created: These organizations became financially dependent on continuous government contracts.

🔹 Biden’s First Day: An Executive Order mandated a review and prioritization of federal awardees that aligned with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) goals.

🔹 Ideological Capture: Companies, now reliant on federal dollars, were forced to conform to DEI principles to survive.

🔹 The Endgame: Through the combined influence of Soros and Gates, the U.S. government was systematically hacked; federal funds outsourced to ideologically compliant businesses and NGOs, locking in permanent institutional capture.