About The Foundation

About the Foundation: The Virginia Asian Foundation, recognized as an IRS C3 Non-Profit Charitable association, is committed to improving the quality of life for Asian Americans in Virginia. We focus our service and advocacy on helping the community to make connections within mainstream society through social, cultural, and economic integration.

We are grateful for the support from various organizations, governments, non-profits, and individuals. Thanks to their support the Foundation has been able to effectively address the needs of our communities in education, cultural integration, access to capital, free health care for the non-insured, and small business safety; wellness, mental health, mobility, and broadband, as some of the most important needs of the Asian American communities.

Our committees are tasked with focusing on five key areas:

1. Student success development (k-12- Higher education, skills training)

2.Community socio-economic sustainability

3.Cultural heritage preservation

4.Civic empowerment

5.Social and economic diversity and inclusion

Support Us: To support us and for more information about the Virginia Asian Foundation, contact mylantran@aabac.org

About our Focus on Education: The Virginia Asian Foundation facilitates increased communication exchanges among educators, researchers, university administrators and staff, counselors, and Asian American students to help encourage the Virginia schools to develop services that respond to their needs through our Council on AAPI Student Success in Higher Education, created in 2021. AAPI stands for Asian American and Pacific Islanders. The eight (8) Higher Education partner members supporting our project include:

1.  George Mason University (Fairfax) * Attorney David Choi, Esq Assistant Dean for Career Services and Employer Relations

2. University of Richmond (Richmond) * Dr. Jennifer Erkulwater, Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Political Science

3. Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond) * Dr Van Wood, Professor of Marketing

4. Christopher Newport University (Newport News) * Mr Vidal Dickerson, Special Assistant for Diversity & Inclusion

5. Radford University (Radford) * Danielle Davis, International Student & Scholar Services Coordinator, DSO/ARO

6. Washington University of Science and Technology (Alexandria) * Jose Ortega, VP of Marketing

7. Old Dominion University (Virginia Beach) * Dr. Barbara Blake, Professor of Marketing, Strome College of Business

8. Community College of Northern Virginia (Fairfax) * Dr. Mei Lan Frame, AANAPISI Grant Coordinator.