WE Day events host tens of thousands of students and celebrate the effect they have made on local and global issues.

The event has featured speeches by global leaders such as Al Gore, Elie Wiesel, Martin Luther King III,[6] Kofi Annan[7] and performances by artists such as Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Lilly Singh,[8] Jennifer Hudson and Nelly Furtado.

[12] WE Day and its parent organization have been criticized for its industry partnerships, including to companies with ties to child labor around the world.

[16] Due to a 2020 controversy concerning a contract award, We Charity has scrapped WE Day "for the foreseeable future" in a restructuring move.

[17] WE Schools campaigns cover a range of social issues, such as "WE Scare Hunger", in which participants collect canned food items for their local food banks each Halloween,[18] and "WE Are Silent", a vow of silence in which participants stay silent for 24 hours in solidarity with children overseas whose rights are not upheld.