About VietRISE
VietRISE, founded in 2018, is a community-based organization based in Garden Grove, CA. Our mission is to advance social justice and empower low-income Vietnamese and immigrant communities in Orange County. We build leadership and create systematic change through organizing, narrative change, cultural empowerment, and civic engagement.
Civic engagement is a tool we use as a long term strategy to mobilize, engage, and empower our communities. We use it to uplift issues during election cycles but to primarily build the capacity of community members to be well-informed, develop leadership, build relationships, and utilize multiple tools for positive social change. We use it to build the capacity of the community to lead and advocate for their own needs.
