North America Taiwanese Women’s Association – Oregon/Southwest Washington Chapter (北美洲台灣婦女會俄勒岡)
Identity Snapshot
- English: North America Taiwanese Women’s Association – Oregon/Southwest Washington Chapter
- Chinese: 北美洲台灣婦女會俄勒岡
- Era: Contemporary
- Geography: Taiwanese American community
- Core roles: Community organization (TAH directory)
North America Taiwanese Women’s Association – Oregon/Southwest Washington Chapter is a local chapter of the North America Taiwanese Women’s Association (NATWA), serving the Oregon and Southwest Washington area.
Role in the Community
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The chapter has its own community story record: 西南華盛頓分會, published 2015-12-20.
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Parent-org context from the corpus: NATWA has published the membership newsletter 聯誼通訊 since at least June 1992 (06; still running by 2000/08 per 08; the surviving run also includes 01), and runs a care-info column 關懷網 via its 關懷資訊中心 (17. 關懷網, 2016).
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The corpus shows the association’s chapters running local cultural programming under the NATWA banner nationally — e.g. NATWA-NJ’s 「與莫札特有緣」benefit concert in Livingston, NJ on 2006-02-19 (118. 「與莫札特有緣」音樂會 by NATWA-NJ, 2006-02) — the activity pattern the Oregon/SW Washington chapter’s own record ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/natwa-oregonsouth-west-chapter|TAH #12]]) sits within.
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NATWA chapters are sibling records, e.g. NATWA 聖地牙哥分會, 2015-12-28.
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Band A community memoir 蕭文源, 2017-12 records NATWA (national body) co-donating US$21,090 to Houston’s Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund in 2017 alongside the TAH Foundation, LA/SD 台灣會館 and 休士頓台聲合唱團 — evidence of the association’s disaster-relief role that Oregon/SW Washington chapter activity sits within.
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Sister chapter page: NATWA Southern California.
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Chapter-level service pattern (corpus, added 2026-09-24): the association’s chapters are documented doing local direct-service and mutual-aid work rather than only social programming — 聖路易分會 serving the HavenHouse 聖誕晚餐 for survivors of domestic violence (21. NATWA 聖路易分會 Serves HavenHouse 聖誕晚餐), a chapter-level 社區服務 T-Shirt programme (14. 社區服務 T-Shirt by NATWA), and the chapter memoir 「情義相挺」 by 李寶蔆 (07). The chapter roster record NATWA is a sibling of this Oregon/SW Washington record. No Oregon-specific service event is named in these works, so this is pattern context only — no facts transferred to the Oregon chapter itself.
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Oregon Taiwanese organizational ecosystem the chapter sits in, per the corpus: 24. Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce of Oregon 奧勒岡台灣工商會, 2016, and early student-era Oregon records such as 許希哲, president of the Foreign Students Association at University of Oregon 1963–64 (341. ff341, 2017) and 劉怡明, first soccer player on a University team at U. of Oregon, 1964 (342. ff342, 2017).
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複核（deepen-x slice 09211300-7，2026-09-22）：re-grep 北美洲台灣婦女會 / NATWA 命中集不變（本分會 #12、663/678/679 聯誼通訊、columns17 關懷網、natwa-san-diego、ourjourneys328）— 全數已吸收於 Role in the Community，saturated，SKIP，無俄勒岡/西南華盛頓分會層級的新材料。
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複核（deepen-x slice-09221500-6, 2026-09-23）：re-grep 北美洲台灣婦女會|NATWA 命中集不變（本分會 #12、663/679 聯誼通訊、columns17、natwa-san-diego、ourjourneys328）— 全數已吸收於 Role in the Community，saturated，SKIP。