THE VINACAPITAL FOUNDATION
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Poverty is a vicious cycle that is difficult for anyone to break, and that’s especially true for children—the most disadvantaged and vulnerable people in Vietnam. VinaCapital Foundation is committed to helping those who cannot help themselves, so that they may someday stand on their own feet and take advantage of all the opportunities provided by Vietnam’s bright future. We aim to achieve this goal and realize our mission through our unique approach: 1. Building capacity to prevent needless death in the pediatric health care system of Vietnam, with programs in cardiac care, intensive care, neonatal care, and emergency care, through training and equipment donations 2. Advocating and providing financial relief and funding for heart surgeries for poor families in Vietnam 3. Mentoring and supporting the education of ethnic minority girls
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Critical Response
Capacity building program in pediatric emergency care teaches Pediatric Advanced Life Support with VN trainers we have certified to doctors and nurses all over the country who work in Emergency and ICU. After doctors attend and certify, the hospital is eligible to receive a crash cart for ER and PICU and CCU.
Heartbeat Vietnam
Heartbeat Vietnam helps poor children (0-18 years) with congenital heart defects with funding for surgery, grants for nutrition, medical visits, meds and transportation, and grants for continuing care for severe at-risk children.
Outreach Clinics
Our outreach clinics take cardiac specialists deep into the areas where we find children who might never have been diagnosed with CHD had we not found them. We do annual clinics in 23 provinces and have given free care to over 12000 children from the age of 0 to 18.
Brighter Path
An innovative approach to support for the most disadvantaged population in Vietnam, ethnic minority girls. Our 7-year commitment to 50 girls with excellent school records began with 10th grade. This year all the girls were accepted and are attending college or university which is surely a huge improvement in their lives before our support. However, the program provides much more than a scholarship smiling and enthusiastic young women excited to be living their dreams for a better life.
Survive To Thrive
Survive to Thrive aims to decrease infant mortality and improve outcomes for premature babies by building capacity for neonatal care in regional centers and rural hospitals throughout Vietnam. The program includes international training and donations of life-saving equipment.
Where we work
Awards
Third Degree Labor Medal 2011
Government of Vietnam
External reviews
Photos
Videos
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsNumber of children receiving congenital heart defect surgeries
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Heartbeat Vietnam
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Heartbeat Vietnam helps poor children (0-18 years) with congenital heart defects with funding for surgery, grants for nutrition, medical visits, meds and transportation, and grants for continuing care
Number of children screened at rural outreach clinics
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Outreach Clinics
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Provide free health care to children across the nation’s provinces. At each clinic, hundreds of poor children are examined and diagnosed by top cardiologists and surgeons from Ho Chi Minh, Hanoi, ...
Number of provincial level health care workers trained in APLS
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Emergency responders, Children and youth
Related Program
Critical Response
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Prior to receiving the cart, doctors in the hospital will be required to attend training on Pediatric Advanced Life Support.
Number of pieces of critical care equipment provided to provincial and district level neonatal and pediatric care units
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Survive To Thrive
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Provide the missing pieces to assure fast response for a child in respiratory or cardiac arrest.
Number of ethnic minority students receiving a Brighter Path scholarship
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Women and girls, Ethnic and racial groups, Students
Related Program
Brighter Path
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
A Brighter Path has mentored and supported disadvantaged ethnic minority girls with a unique 7 year scholarship and mentoring program. Our ultimate goal is to expand this program to include many more.
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
VinaCapital Foundation (VCF) is committed to children, especially poor, under-served and disadvantaged children. Our programs aim to:
• Provide advocacy and access to quality healthcare so that no child dies without a chance at life. Ultimately, we are working toward equal access to quality healthcare for all children
• Improve capacity for pediatric specialty care reducing child and infant mortality and improving outcomes
• Seek out extraordinary disadvantaged children for scholarships and mentoring so that poverty is reduced for the beneficiary, the beneficiary's family and community
• Invest in high social impact, both SME's and Social Enterprises, to assist social entrepreneurs to have strong impact and create sustainable solutions to social problems
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
VCF has been operating in Vietnam since 2006, and has developed important partnerships within the medical and governmental communities. Our work is possible because of strong partnerships with corporations who believe in the efficacy of our work and our complete transparency.
VCF implements all of its own programs with a strong, dedicated and experience team. All of our programs are improved by partnerships and innovative thinking. When we discover a problem and work on an approach to solve it, the process involves advisors, creative thinking, and stakeholder involvement. When we launch the program, our rigorous monitoring indicates whether our program is working.
Key strategies have included:
• The creation of strategic public and private partnerships designed to solve social problems
• Building capacity through continuing medical education of doctors, nurses. Utilizing technology and innovation to include medical personnel in the rural areas
• Educate and mentor the brightest disadvantaged girls in high school and make college possible
• Creating an effective, dedicated implementation team and building relationships with local authorities
• Provide capacity building medical equipment and training for that equipment
• Design clear program objectives and monitor progress toward those objectives constantly, and evaluating impact
• Employing an output based aid approach to funding
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
The senior management team of VCF has collectively, over 60 years of experience in sustainable development work and are known as leaders in their field, innovative thinkers, motivators of staff, donors and volunteers.
The VCF team members all have significant experience in sustainable development, implementation with the full support and collaboration of local authorities, and dedication to the children of Vietnam and Myanmar. The program team members understand that excellent reporting, transparency and relationships with our donors are key elements in our continued success.
Other key organizational advantages include:
• Dedicated long term corporate support including one group of companies who pay core overhead expenses
• International partnerships built through the senior management connections have enabled VCF to grow into an organization that is seen as extremely effective.
• Intellectual partners and advisors such as senior leaders of Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital
• The intellectual and practical support of Vietnam's largest investment firm in the founding and operation of VCF's social impact investing program, Lotus Impact.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We understand that numbers are important. Don't forget that these results reflect the children. That's who we're really fighting for.
• VCF/Heartbeat Vietnam has improved access to care for one of the most under-served populations in Vietnam. We provide surgeries, advocacy, grants, continuing care, and outreach clinics to remote areas to find children who need help. Our ultimate goal is that every child with congenital heart defects (CHD) in Vietnam and Myanmar will have the treatment or surgery they need within one year of diagnosis.
• VCF has donated equipment valued at over $800,000. We only give equipment that increases the capacity for cardiac, neonatal, intensive, and emergency pediatric care. Our ultimate goal is that the child and neonatal mortality decreases and the equipment needed is always on hand to save a child.
• VCF has produced and broadcast 38 tele-medical education symposia. This innovative, interactive program is one of VCF's strengths and is filling a big need in Vietnam and other developing countries in Asia. Our goal is to continue this program until capacity is built to handle children effectively and quickly.
• VCF has saved over 15,000 children since the start of the Critical Response Emergency Care Program which trained and certified doctors and nurses to save children when seconds count. The training and 100 donated crash carts are each saving an average of 2 children per week. Our ultimate goal is to blanket the southern part of Vietnam with PALS training and crash carts so that no child dies needlessly.
• The International Management Institute of Vietnam was incubated at VCF and is now a self-sustaining social enterprise. Our ultimate goal is that this becomes the national institute of management and has a substantial program of scholarships for young entrepreneurs and social enterprises.
• Survive to Thrive, has built neonatal capacity with upgrades and renovations to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Da Nang Women and Children's Hospital and donated training and equipment. The unit has become a regional referral site for 5 provinces and neonatal mortality in the unit has decreased 25% to 6.2/1000. Today, and every day, all over the country, tiny babies die without the equipment needed to save them, so our goal is to spread this program.
• A Brighter Path has mentored and supported disadvantaged ethnic minority girls with a unique 7-year scholarship and mentoring program. Our ultimate goal is to expand this program to include many more ethnic girls.
• In January 2013, VCF started the Lotus Impact Investment Fund to invest in social impact in South East Asia. The goal is to invest in SMEs and social enterprises that provide social impact. The fund management fees will also help VCF increase its financial stability.
• This year VCF started Heartbeat Myanmar to help train up pediatric cardiac care teams to start saving children in Myanmar where almost no children's surgeries are available. Children are dying!
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
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THE VINACAPITAL FOUNDATION
Board of directorsas of 10/30/2023
Mr. Don Lam
VinaCapital Group
Term: 2006 -
Nam Hong Nguyen
NQT Education Centers
Robin King Austin
Austin Homes Interiors
Don Lam
VinaCapital
Brook Colin Taylor
VinaCapital
Katherine Yip
KYG International
Trai Phu Ngoc Pham
Global Integration Business Consultants
Jesse Walter Radman Kivette
Jocelyn Tran
Wal-Mart Global Sourcing Vietnam & Cambodia
Phuong Nhan Le
RHE
My Nguyen
MMSoft Co., Ltd
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
The organization's leader identifies as:
Race & ethnicity
Gender identity
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Sexual orientation
Disability
Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.