This award was given to ACDC for their community service to serve Nevadans to help them navigate the immigration process.
LAS VEGAS – Last week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) abruptly decided to end numerous grants for nonprofits across Nevada. Vida Lin, the Asian Community Development Council’s (ACDC) President & Founder, issued the following statement:
“Late last week, ACDC was notified that effective immediately, our $300,000 grant with USCIS was ordered to stop. This action will have drastic impacts for our community across our state. ACDC has a long history of successfully providing immigration services to our community through collaborations with partners like the Immigrant Home Foundation (IHF) and College of Southern Nevada (CSN).
Our plans for the grant were to provide citizenship education classes and services to 200+ individuals during the 24-month grant period with the assistance of IHF. These classes would have provided rigorous background on U.S. history and government, and the naturalization process. The program was designed to equip students with the essential skills and knowledge required to successfully navigate the naturalization process and obtain U.S. citizenship.
The entire purpose of this project was for ACDC and its partners to educate immigrants who would not otherwise be served. With the stoppage of this grant, these services will not be able to be provided. Since February 1, 2025, numerous ACDC staff have sadly been laid off and positions have been cut due to the uncertainty of funding at all levels. This is the harsh reality that many nonprofits across Nevada and our country are facing currently as we try to navigate this new Administration. Nevadans will continue to lose access to services and jobs due to decisions like the one DHS made last week.”
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ABOUT THE ASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
The Asian Community Development Council (ACDC) is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to building, connecting, and educating the AANHPI community in Nevada. ACDC was officially chartered in 2015 in Las Vegas and opened the Healthy Asians & Pacific Islanders (HAPI) Medical Center in August 2022. Among the services ACDC offers include: voter education, health insurance enrollment assistance, citizenship application assistance, vaccination clinics (Influenza and COVID-19), culturally-sensitive food distribution, College Readiness Bootcamp, GraduAsian, and the Asian Night Market.
For more information about the Asian Community Development Council, visit www.acdcnv.org
