Acacia Center's $832 Million HHS Contract Also Paid For Influencers
HelpGood built podcasts and social posts under Acacia's 240 subawards, work meant to keep unaccompanied migrant children out of deportation proceedings.
- Contract CONT_AWD_140D0422C0009 pays Acacia Center for Justice $832 million for unaccompanied children's legal aid.
- HHS funds the deal through its Office of Refugee Resettlement, running March 2022 through July 2025.
- HelpGood's own website lists influencer and podcast campaigns it built for Acacia's program.
Why it matters: Every dollar spent building sympathy for migrants is a dollar the agency did not spend defending one in court.
USASpending.gov contract award CONT_AWD_140D0422C0009 (Acacia Center for Justice, HHS Unaccompanied Children legal-services contract) ↗ · Sep 6, 20269/6/26