Our mission is to help Southeast Asians in Central MA successfully integrate into the mainstream society while maintaining their unique cultural identity.

01/10/2012 - News

Happy New Year! The Lunar New Year is also coming up on January 23rd, 2012. There will be a community celebration at Worcester Technical High School from 1:00PM to 6:00PM. The address is 1 Skyline Drive Worcester, MA 01605 near the entrance of Green Hill Park. This celebration is free and was organized by our Vietnamese Community Members! Below is the advertisement in Vietnamese.

The Southeast Asian Coalition would also like to announce an available job position. Please view our posting below.
Direct Services/Admin Assistant
If you want know what is happening in the Vietnamese community lately and/or information about health and safety you can watch our show Voices of Asian Americans in Worcester every Monday at 8:00PM, Tuesday at 9:00AM, Saturday at 10:00PM and Sunday at 6:00PM. You can watch it on WCCA-TV Channel 13 or live online at www.wccatv.com. Our most recent program was about Youth Effect activities in 2011. If you missed the broadcast you can watch the video on youtube at this link VAAW #22 - Youth Effect 2011.
We are gearing up for a big year in programming, raising community resources, increasing our community voices and fundraising for a true community center! If you ever have questions, would like to volunteer, become more involved or want to support our organization please contact us at info@seacma.org or call our office at 508-791-4373!

-SEAC Staff

11/03/2011 - News

We have officially moved to our new location! Our new address is 484 Main Street Suite 400, Worcester, MA 01608. We have a much larger space to better serve our community and lead our daily programs. We are on the 4th floor of the Denholm building right behind the escalators on your way up. Here is the picture of the hallway leading to our door:

The space is very large so please feel free to come visit us and see what we're working on in our new office space and community center! Thank you very much to the United Way of Central MA for allowing us to use this space!
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If you want know what is happening in the Vietnamese community lately and/or information about health and safety you can watch our show Voices of Asian Americans in Worcester every Monday at 8:00PM, Tuesday at 9:00AM, Saturday at 10:00PM and Sunday at 6:00PM. You can watch it on WCCA-TV Channel 13 or live online at www.wccatv.com. This week our program covers what resources are available at the Workforce Central for the Vietnamese Community! We do not currently have subtitles on our show for English speakers but we would love to have any volunteers who are interested to give us help in creating subtitles for future episodes.
If you ever have questions, would like to volunteer or become more involved please contact us!

-SEAC Staff

7/12/2011 - Slideshow, pictures and news!

First up is our slideshow from our fundraising dinner on May 28th, 2011!

We are still in great need of funding to accomplish our goal of creating a new community center in the city of Worcester! We will need your continued support to make it possible.

Second, are our candid pictures from the 8th annual Asian Festival 2011!
Asian Festival 2011
Many of these pictures were taken by Youth Effect, we look forward to sharing professional pictures of the performances and videos by the end of the month(hopefully!).The Asian Festival is a great event and the only one of its kind in Worcester, thank you to all the businesses, organizations and individuals who supported our event through volunteer and donation!


-SEAC Staff

6/29/2011 - Asian Festival 2011 updates and thank yous!

An estimation of over three thousand people participated in this year's celebration, volunteers and guests included. A record number of 12 different Asian communities (Bhutanese, Burmese, Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Korean, Japanese, Laotian, Nepalese, Thai and Vietnamese) were able to showcase their unique cultures to the Greater Worcester Community at the event. There was an abundance of absolutely stunning costumes, marvelous music, and delicious food from each culture.

The venue also gave almost 300 volunteers, many of whom were youths, a chance to give back to their communities through traditional dances and talent shows. To continue to promote such a commitment to community service as well as higher education, part of your donation was used to grant four scholarships to Asian youths and an award to outstanding Youth Effect members. The George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Foundation and Mekong International Supermarket were both recognized for their generosity, support and years of service to the whole community at large. All this and many more accomplishments were possible only through your support.

Asian Festival 2011 Scholarship winners were Bichtram Nguyen from Worcester Technical High School, Donna Nguyen from South High Community High School, Yasutoshi Nakamura from Leicester High School and Loan Ngoc Chau also from Worcester Technical High School. Each winner received a small cash award to help cover their costs for college. The Asian Festival Scholarship is awarded each year to Asian American High School Graduates who intend to attend college. We also reserve one award for a member of our Youth Effect program. This year Thuong Nguyen who will be a sophomore at Assumption college received a scholarship to assist her in continuing her education.

Congratulations to all of our scholarhsip winners!!

Annual Appeal

We need YOUR support to help our organization meet the needs of the Southeast Asian Community through building a new home for our organization and allowing us to continue to provide community services free of charge. Please read our letter of appeal by clicking on the image below!

2/12/2011 - Job Opportunity with SEAC

We are currently looking for a Fundraiser and Office assistant to work directly with our Executive Director. Please look at the following Job Description for more details.
Fundraiser and Office Assistant Job Description
If you have any questions please email Thuha Le at (thuhale@seacma.org), thank you!