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East Bay Taiwanese Americans Community Service Center EBTACSC (東灣台美人社區服務中心)

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East Bay Taiwanese Americans Community Service Center EBTACSC (東灣台美人社區服務中心)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: East Bay Taiwanese Americans Community Service Center EBTACSC
  • Chinese: 東灣台美人社區服務中心
  • Era: Contemporary
  • Geography: Taiwanese American community
  • Core roles: Community organization (TAH directory)

The East Bay Taiwanese Americans Community Service Center (EBTACSC) is a nonprofit organization established in 2002 to provide diverse services to Taiwanese immigrants and the broader community in the San Francisco East Bay area. The center hosts educational seminars on medicine, health, professional expertise, and life wisdom, as well as Japanese language classes, interpersonal skills training, and mental health consultations. It also runs a popular gardening sharing program. Activities are held approximately twice a month and are free to attend, supported by voluntary donations from community members. The center is located at 1755 Sunnyvale Avenue, Walnut Creek, CA 94597.

Role in the Community

  • 2007-12-09 — the center (then at 1755 Sunnyvale Ave., Walnut Creek) co-hosted a novelist’s book reading about Taiwan’s martial-law era alongside NATMA 2G, NATWA II and TaiwaneseAmerican.org, per the bylined essay 「What Are You?」: Thoughts on Taiwanese American Identity (band A) — earliest dated center activity in the corpus, consistent with the 2002 founding and the address on file.

  • Directory record in the TAH story corpus: 20. East Bay Taiwanese Americans Community Service Center (EBTACSC) 東灣台美人社區服務中心 (published 2015-08-10; band B bibliographic record — full text stays in the vault).

  • Band-A community memoir 07-2018 documents the center’s gardening program: 林天德 writes that in 2008, while serving as director of the center (舊金山地灣區東灣台美人社區服務中心), he founded the 園藝組 (gardening group) as a mental-hygiene-oriented activity drawing on Taiwanese immigrants’ farming background, alongside 生活智慧 sharing events.

  • Nearby corpus records for the sister East Bay seniors group 北加州東灣台美人長樂會 (TASS-EB) — 23. 北加州東灣台美人長樂會 and its anthologies 1348. 台美人生活心聲, 1349. 台美人天涯遊蹤, 1359. 府城南廠物語 — document that organization, not EBTACSC itself; HOLD: relationship between the two East Bay groups not stated in corpus.

  • 2026-09-23 語料複核（slice 09221100-20）：fresh grep（EBTACSC／東灣台美人社區服務中心）命中全部為已收錄紀錄（Our Journeys 335、TAH #20 senior-ebtacsc、「What Are You?」identity essay、index），無新事實可吸收 — SKIP-with-reason。

  • 2026-09-24 corpus re-grep (slice 09230600-12): fresh grep hits (OJ 335, senior-ebtacsc, “What Are You?” identity essay, index) all absorbed, no new facts. verified-saturated.

Sources

slice 09300315-3 re-verify (2026-10-03): fresh ZH+EN grep (EBTACSC / 東灣台美人社區服務中心) — hit set identical (OJ 335 林天德 園藝組 memoir, senior-ebtacsc directory record, “What Are You?” identity essay, index); all already absorbed above; verified-saturated, no new absorbable facts. hits-hash unchanged set. hits-hash=e263cc18bc74 2026-10-04T20:29:52Z slice 09300855-5 re-grep (EBTACSC / 東灣台美人社區服務中心, works/ + articles/): 4 hits, unchanged — ourjourneys335 (林天德 園藝組 memoir), senior-ebtacsc (#20 directory), e2-80-9cwhat-are-you (2007-12-09 book reading), works/index.md — all already linked and absorbed above. Nothing new absorbable — SKIP (verified-saturated). Sister-org relationship HOLD (EBTACSC vs TASS-EB) still open; no corpus record states a relationship between the two East Bay groups.

  • Audit-path pitfall: grep with a literal content/works + content/articles prefix from the content root matches nothing (the dirs are root-relative works/ and articles/), which makes a saturated page look empty for the wrong reason.
  • 2026-10-05T11:25Z slice 09300900-5 re-grep (EBTACSC / 東灣台美人社區服務中心, works/ + articles/): 4 hits unchanged — ourjourneys335 (林天德 園藝組 memoir), senior-ebtacsc (#20 directory), 「What Are You?」identity essay, works/index.md — all linked and absorbed above. Nothing new absorbable — SKIP (verified-saturated). Sister-org HOLD (EBTACSC vs TASS-EB) still open. hits-hash=940e08f3f737.
  • 2026-10-05 slice 09300927-5 re-grep (EBTACSC / 東灣台美人社區服務中心, root-relative works/ + articles/): 4 hits unchanged — ourjourneys335, senior-ebtacsc, 「What Are You?」identity essay, works/index.md — all linked and absorbed above. Nothing new absorbable — SKIP (verified-saturated). Sister-org HOLD (EBTACSC vs TASS-EB) still open. hits-hash=940e08f3f737.
  • 2026-10-05 slice 09301000-5 re-grep (EBTACSC / 東灣台美人社區服務中心, root-relative works/ + articles/): 4 hits unchanged — ourjourneys335 (林天德 園藝組 memoir), senior-ebtacsc (#20 directory), 「What Are You?」identity essay, works/index.md — identical to prior audits (hits-hash=940e08f3f737 stable across slices). All linked and absorbed above. SKIP (verified-saturated). Sister-org HOLD (EBTACSC vs TASS-EB) still open. hits-hash=e263cc18bc74.
  • 2026-10-05 slice 09301017-5 re-grep (EBTACSC / 東灣台美人社區服務中心, root-relative works/ + articles/): 4 file hits unchanged — ourjourneys335 (林天德 園藝組 memoir), senior-ebtacsc (#20 directory record), 「What Are You?」identity essay, works/index.md. Identical hit set to every prior audit; all linked and absorbed above. SKIP (verified-saturated), nothing absorbable. Sister-org HOLD (EBTACSC vs TASS-EB) still open — no corpus record states a relationship. hits-hash=5d78c2e60397 (grep-sweep sha1 convention).

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