Economic Growth Vietnam Project #12828

Build Home for Vietnam NPOs

by LIN Center for Community Development

Project Report | Feb 10, 2014
Happy Lunar New Year and LIN's Annual Report 2013

By Dana Doan | Strategic Advisor

Lunar New Year Greeting

Thank you for helping to build a stronger community in and around Ho Chi Minh City!

With your support and encouragement, the LIN Center for Community Development was able to exceed our targets for 2013. Here are some of the highlights from 2013:

www.VietnamCauses.org - Launched in Q4, this website details 70+ nonprofits, searchable by name, cause & location (and we are working to get all of the nonprofit pages translated into English by the end of this month)
Over 225 local nonprofit staff received pro bono support services from LIN and those services indirectly benefited over 96,000 people in Vietnam.
17 Nonprofits joined LIN, for a new total of 121 NPO Partners.
293 volunteers were engaged by LIN (94 Skilled Volunteers served 50 NPOs directly, 31 Skilled Volunteers were Trainers/Speakers and 168 Volunteers supported LIN programs) contributing over 10,577 volunteer hours, valued at over USD $240,000.
LIN Community Center hosted 4 developing nonprofit organizations in our Incubator.
16 workshops helped to build the capacity of local nonprofit staff.
Narrow the Gap Community Fund received USD $26,666 and disbursed 11 grants valued at USD $24,380.
7 "Do-It-Yourself" toolkits to guide start-up and developing nonprofits in operational best practices. (Click here to download a toolkit in Vietnamese)
700 customers came to at least one of 12 SecondChanceStore events generating over USD 3,600 in donations to LIN activities.
423 donors to LIN (including cash and in-kind).
98% of NPO partners reported that LIN's services resulted in positive organizational impact!

Read more about our achievements by downloading LIN's 2013 Annual Report (click here to download).

Our success in 2013 was only possible because of your support during the New Year Lights Campaign, which took place at this same time last year. I hope that you will be proud of what we accomplished with your help. If you have any suggestions for improvement, we would love to hear from you!

May the year of the horse give us all the humility to see the world as it is, and the audacity to imagine the world as it should be. The LIN team wishes you all peace, love and kindess in 2014.

Note: We are thrilled to announce that Ernst & Young Vietnam agreed to provide a pro bono audit of LIN's 2013 financial statements. E&Y's audit of our 2012 financial statements is already posted on the LIN website (click here). E&Y will begin working on our 2013 audit this April and hope to have the report back to us by late May.

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