North America Taiwanese Women’s Association – Wisconsin/Illinois Chapter (北美洲台灣婦女會威斯康辛)
Identity Snapshot
- English: North America Taiwanese Women’s Association – Wisconsin/Illinois Chapter
- Chinese: 北美洲台灣婦女會威斯康辛
- Era: Contemporary
- Geography: Taiwanese American community
- Core roles: Community organization (TAH directory)
North America Taiwanese Women’s Association – Wisconsin/Illinois Chapter is a local chapter of the North America Taiwanese Women’s Association (NATWA), serving the Wisconsin and Illinois area.
Role in the Community
This chapter is one of the local chapters of 北美洲臺灣婦女會 (NATWA), the nationwide nonprofit founded in March 1988 in Los Angeles, organised into geographic regions with local chapters across the US and Canada, an annual convention each April, and since 1991 an annual calendar introducing Taiwanese history and culture.
No Wisconsin/Illinois-specific corpus record exists yet in works/ or articles/ — the chapter appears in the TAH directory only, so the facts above are organization-level context, not chapter-specific claims. The chapter sits in the same Midwest region documented by neighbouring chapter and community records: NATWA St. Louis Chapter, Kansas Chapter, and the Chicago-area 台灣人同鄉會 history in 2016), which records how Taiwanese community clubs in the Midwest (including members from Wisconsin) grew into the 1980s wave of 基金會、人權會、婦女會 organizations.
Wisconsin regional context: the Wisconsin Taiwanese community the chapter sits in is itself documented in the corpus — the 威大台灣同鄉會 (The Formosan Club of the University of Wisconsin), registered at the university on 1963-10-19 as a non-political student club, in 81. 威大台灣同鄉會史; the first 北美洲台灣人靈修會 held on a Wisconsin lake in 1967 in 158. 威斯康辛州日內瓦湖畔 (1967); Madison, WI Taiwanese student prayer/Bible-study groups that grew into Midwest-wide 基督徒夏令會 in Our Journeys 369; and the University of Wisconsin 台灣布袋戲團 in 2017). These place the chapter in a documented lineage of Wisconsin Taiwanese organizing; none are chapter-specific NATWA records. The NATWA 聯誼通訊 issues in the corpus (06), 08)) carry no Wisconsin/Illinois chapter record.
NATWA’s organization-wide publications that reach all chapters are held in the corpus: 555. 北美洲台灣婦女會月曆 (1993–2018), 554. 聯誼通訊 (2000–2014), its service work via 17. 關懷網 by NATWA 關懷資訊中心, and the 婦女信箱 column record (1991–2001, 台灣公論報) with its 千禧年專刊 editorial account in 12).
2026-09-23 corpus re-grep (DEEPEN-X slice 09221100-3): no Wisconsin/Illinois-chapter-specific record surfaced. The only NATWA records mentioning Wisconsin-adjacent material remain those absorbed above (OJ 255’s Wisconsin-member note); org-level hits (e.g. 328. 休士頓台灣人傳統基金會, NATWA’s $21,090 Hurricane Harvey relief donation 2017) are chapter-agnostic and stay as organization context. VERIFIED-SATURATED at chapter level — still directory-only, no chapter-specific corpus record exists.