community organizations

MAUVSA
The Mid-Atlantic Union of Vietnamese Student Associations (MAUVSA) is a non-profit alliance of college-based cultural organizations from D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.  It consists of campus chapters from seven major schools throughout the region: George Mason University, George Washington University, James Madison University, University of Maryland – College Park, University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University.  The individual chapters have existed since as far back as 1976.  After years of informal collaboration, the alliance was officially chartered in July 2007. 

NAVASA
The mission of NAVASA is to empower the Vietnamese community in the United States and facilitate the transition of Vietnamese refugees and immigrants from dependency to self-sufficiency.

KetDoan.org
KetDoan is a nonprofit organization with the purpose of developing programs that promotes the preservation of Vietnamese culture for today's young Vietnamese Americans, and to encourage involvement in community projects that serves the Washington Metropolitan area.

Boat People S.O.S.
Boat People SOS (BPSOS) is a organization that help immirgrants from Vietnam that need help with anything to adjust to the American culture. They help out with paper work, translating services and recently, helping the Vietnamese Katrina victims that fled to Houston, TX.

NCVA
The National Congress of Vietnamese Americans is a nonprofit community advocacy organization working to advance the cause of Vietnamese Americans by participating actively and fully as civic minded citizens engaged in the areas of education, culture and civil liberties.

uNAVSA
The Union of North American Vietnamese Student Associations- Beginning in the early 1980s, regional coalitions of these VSAs began to form, such as the Union of Vietnamese Student Associations of Southern California (UVSA) in 1982, and the Vietnamese Students Association of Victoria (VSAV), Australia in 1983.

MVMA
Officially incorporated in 1982 as a 501(c) (3) nonprofit status, the Maryland Vietnamese Mutual Association, Inc. (MVMA) is the oldest Vietnamese American community based organization in Maryland. MVMA’s mission is to serve, support, and advance the Vietnamese American community.