VietLead

VietLead creates a vision and strategy for community self-determination, social justice, and cultural resilience through intergenerational programs and community defense, focusing on a pathway to healing trauma in Southeast Asian communities

Impact Highlights

The We Got Us Fund grant is the first and largest in VietLead’s history to support their Community Defense team. It enables their team to concentrate on crucial programming that bolsters their growth, impacted leaders, and broader base. Additionally, the grant plays a pivotal role in supporting VietLead’s collaboration with the Free Migration Project, their movement legal partner. With this grant, they can continue to provide free legal screening to members, facilitating their engagement in the pardon application process.

What’s Next

In the next few years, VietLead’s primary focus is on building a robust infrastructure that will continue to sustain their program in the long-term. Due to the past few years of emergency response, they haven’t had the chance to build out program infrastructure, nor to standardize operations processes. They aim to finalize their leadership trellis and establish standardized operations for programs. Concurrently, they are committed to enhancing the capabilities of impacted leaders through comprehensive training in organizing, socioemotional skills, and relationship development. VietLead hopes to grow their base of members to continue to fight against deportation, and aim to continue mobilizing and educating the Philadelphia and Camden base towards the Southeast Asian Responsibility and Relief Act to provide longer term relief to impacted communities over time.