THE VINACAPITAL FOUNDATION

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

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

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.

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!