List of Vietnamese American Groups
Encyclopedia
The follow is a list of groups formed by or for the Vietnamese-American community.
General
- National Congress of Vietnamese Americans
- New Jersey Vietnamese-American Community Association
- OneVietnam Network
- The Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association of New Orleans
- Vietnamese American Bar Association of Washington
Academic
- Mid-Atlantic Union of Vietnamese Student AssociationsMid-Atlantic Union of Vietnamese Student AssociationsThe Mid-Atlantic Union of Vietnamese Student Associations is a non-profit alliance of college-based cultural organizations from D.C., Maryland, and Virginia...
- Union of North American Vietnamese Student AssociationsUnion of North American Vietnamese Student AssociationsThe Union of North American Vietnamese Student Associations is a non-profit, community-based organization founded in 2004 as a means for Vietnamese youth organizations from across North America to network, share common resources, and collaborate with one another on youth-related and philanthropic...
- United Vietnamese Student Associations of Northern California
- Union of Vietnamese Student Associations of Southern CaliforniaUnion of Vietnamese Student Associations of Southern CaliforniaThe Union of Vietnamese Student Associations of Southern California is a network of Vietnamese Student Associations at various Southern California universities and colleges...
- Union of Vietnamese Student Associations of Midwest
- Vietnamese American Scholarship Foundation
- Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association of New Orleans
Civic & Political
- Boat People SOSBoat People SOSBoat People SOS is the nation's largest Vietnamese-American 5013 nonprofit organization devoted to Vietnamese-American civic and political activism. It is headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia...
- Catalyst Foundation
- East Meets WestEast Meets West FoundationEast Meets West Foundation is the largest non-governmental organization acting in Vietnam, with additional programs in Southeast Asia, which describes itself as "the foundation for learning, healing and health." It was founded in 1988 by author and humanitarian Le Ly Hayslip, and is based in...
- Pacific Links
- Radio Free VietnamRadio Free VietnamRadio Free Vietnam is the broadcasting network of a Vietnamese anti-communist group called the Government of Free Vietnam that is released throughout the world and its headquarters is located in Southern California....
- Vietnamese Alliance to Combat TraffickingVietnamese Alliance to Combat TraffickingThe Vietnamese Alliance to Combat Trafficking is a Vietnamese non-profit, grassroots organization founded in 2004 dedicated to eradicating human trafficking of Vietnamese victims through collaboration, advocacy, and education.- History :...
- VA-NGO Network - Vietnamese American Non-Governmental Organization Network
- Vietnamese American Initiative for Development, Inc.
- Vietnamese-American Public Affairs Committee (VPAC)
- Hope Initiative, Inc. - Benefitting Vietnamese orphans and Striving to create properous Vietnamese communities
- Vietnamese American Republican Coalition
Economic & Professional
- National Alliance of Vietnamese American Service Agencies
- Springfield Vietnamese-American Civil Association
- Vietnamese American Bar Association of Washington DC (VABA-DC)
- Vietnamese American Bar Association of Northern California (VABANC)
- Vietnamese American Bar Association of Southern California (VABASC)
- Vietnamese American Bar Association of Washington State
- Vietnamese American National Chamber of Commerce (VietAmCham)
- Vietnamese American Medical Association of the USA
- Vietnamese American Professionals Alliance (VAPA)
- Vietnamese American Professional Women Association of Silicon Valley
Heritage & Culture
- Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association
- Vietnamese-American Culture & Education Foundation
- Vietnamese Cultural Society
- Vietnamese Culture & Science Association
- Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation
- Vietnamese American Heritage Project
See also
- Boat PeopleBoat peopleBoat people is a term that usually refers to refugees, illegal immigrants or asylum seekers who emigrate in numbers in boats that are sometimes old and crudely made...
- Vietnamese AmericanVietnamese AmericanA Vietnamese American is an American of Vietnamese descent. They make up about half of all overseas Vietnamese and are the fourth-largest Asian American group....
- Vietnamese Student AssociationVietnamese Student AssociationThe Vietnamese Student Association refers to campus-based not-for-profit student groups located all over the world in areas where communities of overseas Vietnamese exist...
- History of Overseas Vietnamese Youth Organizations
- Overseas Vietnamese
External links
- Information on Vietnamese-American Gangs http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/fs200001.pdf
- The Dream Shattered By Peter Van Do - discusses Vietnamese Adolescent Gangs http://www.hawaii.edu/hivandaids/The_Dream_Shattered__Vietnamese_Gangs_in_America.pdf