Formosa Foundation
Formosa Foundation (福爾摩莎基金會) is listed as a group member of the |Taiwan Center Foundation of the Greater Los Angeles.
Identity Snapshot
- Chinese: 福爾摩莎基金會
- English (as listed): Formosa Foundation
- Relation: Taiwan Center group member (official listing)
- Source: https://www.taiwancenter.org/group-members ·
taiwancenter-org-group-members.md
Role in the Community
- Recorded in the TAHS community-history corpus: 5. Formosa Foundation (2014-10-12).
- The Youth Ambassador Program was the foundation’s flagship activity in the record: Formosa Foundation 2010 Ambassador Program (2010-03-15), 77. Ambassador Program by Formosa Foundation (2017-02-28), and the 青年親善大使培訓營 41. Formosa Foundation 美國福爾摩沙基金會青年親善大使培訓營 (2018-03-01).
- Founder Li-Pei Wu appears in the corpus record Formosa Foundation founder Li-Pei Wu speaks in LA area.
- Civic engagement: community forum with Congressman Berman; fundraising: 2010 fundraising gala dinner in LA.
- D.C. advocacy context: in the launch interview for American Citizens for Taiwan, the foundation is cited alongside FAPA as an organization “doing good work on the ground in Washington, D.C.” — a peer in the movement’s advocacy ecosystem (Heart and Soul: Introducing American Citizens for Taiwan).
- 2011-07-30: hosted a Community Roundtable at the Taiwan Center in Rosemead — a briefing on the June 16 House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, recent Capitol Hill action, and the 2011 Ambassador Program, with RSVP by phone/email (213.625.1991) — Community Roundtable in LA: Briefing on Taiwan’s Resurgence in Washington.
- Incubator for movement careers: Formosa Betrayed – Giving Voice to History Via the Big Screen (2009-02-28) records that producer Will Tiao began his career as an intern for the Formosa Foundation before working on US–Taiwan legislation on Capitol Hill and founding Formosa Films — the foundation functioned as a training ground for the next generation of Taiwanese American civic/cultural organizers.
- The Youth Ambassador Program fed young leaders into wider community life: 2010 Ambassador Nikki DePaola — raised in Manhattan, Kansas to a Taiwanese mother, a UC Berkeley Political Economies and Media Studies graduate — entered the Miss Taiwanese American pageant “to connect more with the Taiwanese community and to learn something new” (Follow Nikki on her quest for the crown in the Miss Taiwanese American Pageant); the ambassador program was still recruiting as late as 2015 (Apply to be a Formosa Foundation Ambassador, 2015-03-09).
- Alumni moved through a whole ecosystem of Taiwanese American organizations: 2010 ambassador Nikki DePaola is later described as having worked with “ACT, TACL, the Formosa Foundation, and The Taiwan Center of Greater Los Angeles” (How I Became More Involved, 2014-05-23) — the foundation’s ambassador program functioned as one node in a shared pipeline.
- First-person testimony of the program’s effect on a younger generation: a community writer who “participated in the Formosa Foundation ambassador program and learned how this history carries over into issues today,” crediting it (with the Formosa Betrayed film) for pushing her into ITASA conferences and deeper engagement with 228/martial-law history (Finding Myself Through the Taiwanese American Community).
- Sustained annual recruitment documents the program’s longevity as a pipeline: application calls for the 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 Ambassador Programs — six consecutive annual calls (2010–2015 incl. the 2015 call above), not a one-off.
- Movement-historical positioning: the community’s own survey history places the Formosa Foundation’s founding alongside FAPA as organizations “formed to support Taiwan on the political front and help establish its recognition on the international stage,” in the wave of 1980s–1990s institution-building after NATPA/NATMA/TAC League/NATWA (The Taiwanese American Story: A History in Progress).
- Closure: farewell article End of an Era: Farewell to the Formosa Foundation (TaiwaneseAmerican.org, listed 2017-02-24). HOLD: farewell notice 2017-02 vs later ambassador-training-camp record published 2018-03-01 — sequence unresolved, not merged.
- HOLD: hanzi spelling conflict — 福爾摩莎基金會 (this page, per Taiwan Center listing) vs 福爾摩沙基金會 (TAHS work titles). Not auto-merged.
Corpus re-scan 2026-09-24: fresh grep of works/articles for Formosa Foundation/福爾摩莎基金會/福爾摩沙基金會 returns the same hit set (works 5, 41, 77, 2010-ambassador-program, formosa-betrayed, farewell, 2015 ambassador call); all absorbed above — verified saturated, HOLDs unchanged.
Corpus re-scan 2026-09-25 (slice 09250800-13): fresh grep (Formosa Foundation／福爾摩莎基金會／福爾摩沙基金會, works+articles) returns the same saturated hit set — all absorbed above; SKIP-no-new-facts, HOLDs unchanged.
Corpus re-scan 2026-09-26 (slice 09260317-26): fresh grep (Formosa Foundation／福爾摩莎基金會／福爾摩沙基金會, works+articles) returns the same saturated hit set (works 5, 41, 77, 2010-ambassador-program, formosa-betrayed, farewell, 2015 ambassador call, index) — all absorbed above; SKIP-no-new-facts, HOLDs (farewell-vs-camp sequence, 莎/沙 hanzi) unchanged.
Source Notes
- Content priority A: Name on Taiwan Center group-members page
- Hub: |taiwancenter.org
- Content priority C: Independent history not expanded from listing alone
Sources
Related Pages
Corpus re-scan 2026-09-27 (slice 09260700-3): fresh grep (Formosa Foundation, works+articles) returns the same saturated hit set (works 5, 41, 77, camp, ambassador-program, formosa-betrayed, index) — all absorbed above; SKIP-no-new-facts, HOLDs unchanged.
Corpus re-scan 2026-10-09 (slice 10080951-7): fresh ZH+EN grep (Formosa Foundation／福爾摩莎基金會／福爾摩沙基金會／Li-Pei Wu, works+articles+sources+events+topics) surfaced 4 previously-unabsorbed records, now absorbed above: the 2011 Community Roundtable (Rosemead), the ACT-interview mention of the foundation alongside FAPA in D.C. advocacy (Heart and Soul: Introducing American Citizens for Taiwan), Nikki DePaola’s multi-org alumni trail, and the ambassador-program first-person testimony. Li-Pei Wu grep hits resolve to his own TAHS records (works 26/27/628 — TACL presidency, Taiwanese American Bank CEO, who’s-who), not new foundation facts. HOLDs unchanged.
Corpus re-scan 2026-10-10 (slice 10100315-15): fresh ZH+EN grep (Formosa Foundation／福爾摩莎基金會／福爾摩沙基金會, works+articles+sources+events+topics) returned 22 hits; 5 previously-unabsorbed records now absorbed above — the 2011/2012/2013/2014 annual ambassador-program application calls (program continuity 2010–2015) and the survey-history positioning of the foundation alongside FAPA in the post-1980s institution-building wave. All other hits already linked. HOLDs (farewell-vs-camp sequence, 莎/沙 hanzi) unchanged.
Corpus re-scan 2026-10-12 (slice 10102300-20): fresh ZH+EN grep (Formosa Foundation／福爾摩莎基金會／福爾摩沙基金會／福爾摩莎／福爾摩沙, works+articles+sources+events+topics) — the 福爾摩沙-only hits are false positives (PCT choir works 71/13/14, work 1076 福爾摩沙的自我追尋, ourjourneys241 concert write-up — none are the foundation); exact-phrase hits are all already-linked records (works 5/41/77, ambassador calls 2010–2015, formosa-betrayed, farewell, roundtable, gala, Berman forum, Li-Pei Wu, ACT/Nikki/finding-myself/story-history, index, sources hub). No new facts; SKIP-saturated. HOLDs (farewell-vs-camp sequence, 莎/沙 hanzi) unchanged.
Corpus re-scan 2026-10-12 (slice 10120200-20): fresh ZH+EN grep (Formosa Foundation／福爾摩莎基金會／福爾摩沙基金會／Li-Pei Wu, works+articles+sources+events+topics) returned 26 docs — every exact-phrase hit is an already-linked record above. The single non-works hit (TASF COVID-19 relief scholarship article, 2020-06-16) matches only on Li-Pei Wu as Wan-Tung Bank president / Taiwan Center fundraising chair — not a Formosa Foundation fact, so not absorbed. Verified saturated; HOLDs (farewell-vs-camp sequence, 莎/沙 hanzi) unchanged.
Corpus re-scan 2026-10-13 (slice 10121300-20): fresh ZH+EN grep (Formosa Foundation／福爾摩莎基金會／福爾摩沙基金會, works+articles+sources+events+topics) returned 22 exact-phrase hits — all resolve to records already linked above or to index/hub files (works index, taiwaneseamericanhistory.org hub; the hub is now linked in Sources, previously only a bare URL). No new facts; verified saturated. HOLDs (farewell-vs-camp sequence, 莎/沙 hanzi) unchanged.