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Founded in 1976, The Vietnamese Association of Illinois (VAI) is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that focuses on serving diverse communities of all ethnicities and religions, fostering unity, and promoting Vietnamese American identity.
Since its founding, VAI has served thousands of Vietnamese Americans and other ethnic communities through facilitating resettlement and citizenship, building community, seeking employment, addressing healthcare issues, raising political awareness, providing educational opportunities, addressing multigenerational issues for seniors and youth, establishing and expanding businesses, and strengthening cultural heritage. Our impact began in Uptown Chicago and has since 2016 expanded to DuPage County via our satellite office.
The purpose of VAI reflects our Community and Service mission:
1. To promote, support, and develop various cultural, social, and educational programs to serve Vietnamese Americans and other ethnic groups in Illinois.
2. To help generate the mutual assistance spirit among Vietnamese ethnic group members.
3. To foster closer relationships with various Vietnamese organizations in a common effort to serve the needs of Vietnamese Americans in the state of Illinois.
1. To strengthen and perpetuate the unity and solidarity of the Vietnamese Americans residing in the state of Illinois
The Union of Vietnamese Student Associations of the Midwest (UVSA-Midwest) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan, community-based organization that was founded in 2007 as a means for Vietnamese youth organizations from across the Midwest region to network with one another, share common resources, develop leadership skills, and collaborate on philanthropic projects. UVSA-Midwest is committed to empowering emerging youth leaders within the Vietnamese community while preserving and promoting the Vietnamese culture. Servicing the Vietnamese-American community in the Midwest, UVSA-Midwest works as an partnership organization and collaborates with individual student associations and other related Vietnamese community-based organizations to conduct events and initiatives. We organize conferences and summits with a focus on leadership building, cultural awareness and identity, social and community advocacy on issues affecting the Vietnamese community in addition to the Collective Philanthropy Project (CPP).
We are dedicated to preserving and promoting the Vietnamese culture while developing leaders to advocate for Vietnamese American communities by providing resources for philanthropic opportunities as well as personal and professional growth.