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Taiwanese American Foundation (TAF)

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Taiwanese American Foundation (TAF)

Taiwanese American Foundation (TAF) is a philanthropic foundation established in 1982 by Wang Gui-rong (王桂榮) to honor outstanding individuals who “care about Taiwan and identify Taiwan as their homeland.” It is sometimes called “The Nobel of Taiwan” (台灣的諾貝爾).

Identity Snapshot

FieldDetail
EnglishTaiwanese American Foundation (TAF)
Founded1982
FounderWang Gui-rong (王桂榮)
PurposeHonor outstanding Taiwanese individuals worldwide
Laureates[[people/liao-shu-zong|

History

In 1982, Wang Gui-rong donated $1 million to establish the TAF. From 1983 onward, the foundation awarded laureates from around the world who had contributed to Taiwan’s cultural, academic, or political advancement. The award was highly regarded within the Taiwanese American community.

Name collision

A different organization of the same English name — Taiwanese American Foundation 台灣人協進會 (通稱 TAF), formed in 1980 from the Midwest Formosan Christian Foundation (MFCF, est. 1973) to run Taiwanese-American youth camps — appears in the corpus (楊遠薰 TAF history: [[articles/taiwanjustice-net/2021/20211205041636_2021_06_22_卓甫良與taf的故事--楊遠薰_f06677a469620539|TJJ 2021-06-22]]、[[articles/taiwanjustice-net/2025/20250323083207_卓甫良與taf的故事--楊遠薰_e7aad53f3e593fde|TJJ 2025-03-23 轉載]]); its founding officers include 莊明哲 (founding president) and 卓甫良. This awards foundation (王桂榮, 1982) is a separate body.

Further “TAF” acronyms in the corpus are also distinct bodies: regional scholarship bodies carrying the same English name appear as records — Taiwanese American Foundation of Boston 波士頓台美基金會 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/taiwanese-american-foundation-of-boston|TAH #17 波士頓台美基金會]]) and Taiwanese American Foundation of San Diego 聖地牙哥台美基金會 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/taiwanese-american-foundation-of-san-diego|TAH #7 聖地牙哥台美基金會]], with scholarship-award records) — whether either is a chapter of this foundation or an independent same-name body is unreconciled. TAFNC 北加州臺灣同鄉聯合會 — the Northern California federation of Taiwanese associations, whose English name became “Taiwanese American Federation of Northern California” in 2003 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/our-journeys-350|TAH #350]]); it held a 228 Memorial Concert in 2019 (2019). A further same-name body: 大西雅圖台美基金會 (Greater Seattle Taiwanese American Foundation), the 501(c)(3) that owns the Seattle 台灣會館 — 蕭勝雄 was its first 理事長 and 劉真真 its 館長 per the Taiwan Center memoir ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys30|TAH #30 西雅圖台灣會館]]); distinct from this awards foundation. TAFSD is the corresponding San Diego body — its president Prof. Kun-Mu Chen co-hosted the grand opening of the Taiwanese American Community Center of San Diego (Our Journeys 162 (EN)).

HOLD: corpus records titled “台美協進會” — 7. Taiwanese American Foundation Summer Camp 台美協進會 家庭、青少年夏令營 (2015) and 2. Miss Taiwanese American Foundation 台美小姐選拔基金會 (2014) — link this page as a subject, but their 台美協進會 usage may denote the youth-camp body rather than this awards foundation; attribution unreconciled.

Role in the Community

  • Our Journeys 29 (EN) records the founding act of this foundation: Kenjohn Wang (王桂榮), after donating one million dollars, established the Taiwanese American Foundation, which awards yearly scholarships to extraordinary talents in the US and overseas; the Wang family later donated its over-20,000-square-foot Rosemead estate to the Taiwan Center. The same memoir records 李培吾 (Li Pei Wu) — a $1M donor to the Taiwanese United Fund and Chilin Foundation — being elected Chairman of the Foundation and general convener of the Taiwan Center preparatory committee.
  • The foundation’s own publications are held in the corpus: TAF Magazines 雜誌 and an earlier 11 — the foundation’s own 1995 awards special issue, evidence the award ceremony ran continuously into the mid-1990s.
  • 王桂榮’s wider movement record appears in the corpus as 10 (bibliographic record; which 公會 is unreconciled).
  • Tsai Trong-rong’s memoir records the founder of this foundation at the 1982 Los Angeles meeting that produced FAPA: Kenjohn Wang (王桂榮), then President of the Chamber of Commerce, served as treasurer (“responsible for finances”) on FAPA’s founding executive committee alongside Ming Min Peng (honorary president), Mark Chen (WFTA president, vice-president) and Tu Chen (TAA president, organizing) — Our Journeys 65 (EN): The Birth of FAPA by Tsai Trong-rong. This places the TAF founder’s community standing in the diplomatic-organization generation of 1982, before the foundation’s own founding that same year.
  • The foundation’s publication record now extends back to its first decade: 06 — a quarterly issue from 1986, evidence the foundation was already publishing within four years of its 1982 founding (earlier than the 1995/2005–2006 issues recorded above).
  • 20. 王桂榮台美文教基金會得獎人名單 (2016-04-22) preserves the laureate list of the founder’s foundation. HOLD: the record’s title renders the name as 台美文教基金會 rather than 台美基金會; same Wang Gui-rong foundation, naming variant unreconciled.
  • The founder’s own life record in the corpus: 10 (傳記) (biography) and 07 (retrospective, 2016-07-19) — both bibliographic records; they document how the foundation founder’s story is told back to the community.
  • The founder’s cooperative-era community work predates TAF: a credit-union memoir records 王桂榮 joining the board at the 1979-02-10 annual meeting and taking over as 社長 in late 1979, holding meetings at his Holiday Inn in Montebello (Our Journeys 244) — the business-and-community standing that fed into the 1982 founding year.
  • The foundation’s award record reaches back into its first decade as a published volume: 10 (傳記) — laureate biographies issued by the foundation itself, extending the corpus publication series 1986季刊 → 1993得獎人傳記 → 1995頒獎特刊 → 2005–2006 TAF雜誌 (bibliographic record only).
  • The foundation’s own publication series extends further back and later than the issues listed above: 11 and 2000 — the latter a retrospective of nineteen award years, evidence the ceremony ran continuously from 1982 into 2000 (bibliographic records).
  • 1982 records the foundation’s own self-description as the first Taiwanese American non-profit foundation (bibliographic record).
  • The award record reaches into the sciences: 04 preserves the acceptance remarks of Prof. Ju-Shey Ho (何汝諧), laureate of the foundation’s 2001 science-and-engineering award — evidence the awards covered science and engineering by 2001.
  • A 1985 roster of the founder’s circle appears in Our Journeys 186, which reproduces 台灣公論報 #369 (1985-04-15, p. 9) with a list of names including 王桂榮 alongside 賴明詔, 蔡奮鬥 and other community figures (roster attribution unreconciled).
  • The founder’s own memoir is corpus-held: 01 (傳記) (bibliographic record), plus a Who’s Who entry 66. Kenjohn Wang 王桂榮. The foundation’s place among the 1980s overseas-Taiwanese association boom is listed in Our Journeys 206, which names 台美基金會 among the self-founded, independent community bodies of the era.
  • The founder’s own community-historical writing is corpus primary material: 10) — 王桂榮’s band-A account of coordinating the two churches (Evangelical Formosa / Presbyterian) that produced the 1979-05-05 Taiwanese American Seniors Association, his years of $1,000 annual donations and fundraising, the 1994 “Most Donations” award, and the 1988 Flamingo Garden senior apartments opening — including his slogan “Our elderly should be taken care of by our own community; we should not rely on the U.S. government to do so.” The same episode is recalled from the seniors-association side in Our Journeys 173 (EN), which names 王桂榮 (Kenjohn Wang) among the 1988 El Monte builders and records him as the association’s honorary president.

From the record

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09240600-1, 2026-09-25）：本 slice 文章 f06677a469620539（卓甫良與TAF的故事(楊遠薰 2021-06-22)）正文再驗證——Subjects 以純文字列出台灣人協進會 TAF（MFCF 延續）並標注與本獎座基金會為不同組織；Name collision 段辨析經正文比對為真，維持現況，無需獨立建頁 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09230500-1, 2026-09-24）：本 slice 文章 f06677a469620539（卓甫良與TAF的故事） 再驗證——該文 Subjects 以純文字列出台灣人協進會 TAF（MFCF 延續的青少年夏令營團體）並明確標注與本獎座基金會為不同組織；上方 Name collision 段的辨析（含該文 wikilink 與創會幹部連結）經正文比對為真，維持現況，無需獨立建頁 — SKIP，無新材料。

Corpus re-check (2026-10-12, deepen-x slice 10120100-6): 5-dir grep (王桂榮 / Wang Gui-rong / Kenjohn / 台美基金會 / 台美文教基金會 / Taiwanese American Foundation) returned 80 files; newly absorbed — publications series 787 (1999年刊) + 788 (1982–2000頒獎特刊), record 49 (self-description as first Taiwanese American non-profit foundation, 1982), mystories428 (2001 科技工程獎 laureate 何汝諧 / Prof. Ju-Shey Ho), publicstions2 (1999 founder memoir), whos-who-66, ourjourneys186 (1985 公論報 roster incl. 王桂榮), ourjourneys206 (1980s association boom listing). HOLD stands: ourjourneys258 / our-journeys-377 / videos-of-taiwanese-american-foundation describe the 1980 youth-camp TAF (台灣人協進會/MFCF lineage), not this awards foundation. No date/age conflicts introduced.

Corpus re-check (2026-10-12, deepen-x slice 10102200-6): full-corpus grep (works/articles/sources/events/topics) for 王桂榮 / Wang Gui-rong / Kenjohn / 台美基金會 / 台美文教基金會 returned two previously-unlinked items now absorbed — publications4 (1993 得獎人傳記 volume) and ourjourneys54-eng / ourjourneys173-eng (the founder’s own band-A senior-housing memoir and its cross-account). No conflicts; name-collision and 台美文教基金會 HOLDs above stand.

  • 2024-03-02 — 楊遠薰《卓甫良與TAF的故事》TJJ snapshot 2024-03-02 (刊 2021-06-22): third archived copy of the TAF-history article; 正文 corroborates that the TAF co-founded by 卓甫良 is 台灣人協進會 (MFCF lineage, formed 1980), distinct from this awards foundation. The other two copies (f06677a469620539, e7aad53f3e593fde) are already wikilinked in Name collision above.

  • 2013-12-29 — 2013 TAF New Year Party in Chicago (bibliographic record, taiwaneseamerican.org): records a Chicago TAF New Year party; the work lists this page as subject, which TAF body is unreconciled (awards foundation vs. youth-camp TAF).

  • 2012-02-28 — 228 panel in San Francisco: the panel roster names moderator Karen Lin as “Former executive director of Taiwanese American Foundation” — a dated record of TAF executive staff; attribution to this awards foundation vs. the camp-lineage TAF unreconciled.

  • 2015-05-22 — Alvina Ling interview: Ling states she attended TAF (Taiwanese American Foundation) the summer after her freshman year of college — a camp-attendance record, consistent with the youth-camp TAF lineage.

  • 2023-05-24 — Disney “American Born Chinese” essay: identifies Kelvin Yu and Annlie Huang as “former TAF’er[s]” (TAF camp alumni) — a dated record of the TAF alum network reaching mainstream entertainment.

  • 2010-08-06 — Ahbying) interview: records Chang as an invited speaker at the Taiwanese American Foundation 2010 Summer Conference for students in the Midwest — a dated conference-program record.

  • 2009-10-06 — APA Artists on Overcoming Racism & Stereotypes: records the interviews as produced for presentation by Junior High Program counselors at the 2009 TAF Summer Conference — a dated conference-program record.

  • 2010-11-11 — On Discovering Passion & Purpose (Ho Chie Tsai): his 2010 campus-tour record names the Taiwanese American Foundation (TAF) in Indiana among the youth summer camps he spoke at that year, alongside ITASA, MAASU and TANG — a dated record of TAF inside the community’s student-programming circuit.

  • 2009-05-15 — Chris Lin’s Mandy and Pandy Say “Ni Hao Ma?” (interview by Ho Chie): Lin credits TAF for his identity — “It wasn’t until I made friends at TAF that I felt comfortable with my self identity” — and opens with “its been a while since the good ol’ TAF (Taiwanese American Foundation Summer Conference) days together,” a dated record of the interviewer and interviewee as fellow TAF alumni.

  • 2010-10-30 — Chicago-area Halloween Extravaganza by Taiwanese American Foundation (bibliographic record, taiwaneseamerican.org): a Chicago-area event run under the Taiwanese American Foundation name; which TAF body is unreconciled (same open question as the 2013 Chicago New Year party above).

  • 2022-06-07 — New Creatives: Eric Lin: the Princeton musician states “I attend TAF (Taiwanese American Foundation) camp every summer” and credits camp friends as his music supporters — a dated record of TAF camp continuity into the 2020s.

  • 2022-12-05 — Gathering at Emeryville’s “Good to Eat”: the event photo roster captions Ho Chie Tsai as “TaiwaneseAmerican.org founder, Taiwanese American Foundation president” — a 2022-dated corroboration of the president-from-2019 tenure recorded on his page ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/our-journeys-377|Our Journeys #377]]).

  • 2025-08-01 — TAF – 歐春美 Chunmei Ou Lin’s Journey (oral history, TAH Taiwanese Americans Oral History Project): 歐春美 (Chunmei Ou Lin, 歐春美) is interviewed as CEO of the San Diego Taiwan Center and of the Taiwanese American Foundation of San Diego 2024–2025; the record lists this page among its subjects, and the SD body is the San Diego same-name foundation already disambiguated in Name collision above — attribution to this awards foundation held unreconciled.

  • 2024-03-19 — Author Q&A: Kara H.L. Chen: the novelist states “As a TAF (Taiwanese American Foundation) alum, I definitely thought of TAF as I was drafting those scenes” (the camp scenes in ASKING FOR A FRIEND) — a dated record of a published author drawing on TAF camp material.

  • 2024-08-13 — Koi Fish: A TAF Story (Brady Nichols): the editor’s note records the TAF summer conference as “running for over four decades,” its stated vision “for people of Taiwanese heritage to make a profound impact on humankind in unique and compassionate ways,” and TAF as the “ancestral home” of TaiwaneseAmerican.org — the clearest corpus statement of the conference’s own self-description.

  • 2014-01-25 — Lunar New Year Banquet with TAFNC in NorCal (bibliographic record): a TAFNC-tagged NorCal banquet that links this page as subject; TAFNC is the Northern California federation already disambiguated in Name collision above, so attribution to this awards foundation is unreconciled.

  • 2010-02-26 — Remember 228, Celebrate Identity, and Make History! (Ho Chie Tsai): the 228/Census-weekend message names the “Taiwanese American Foundation (midwest)” as co-producer — alongside TACL (including TAP and the Leading Youth Forward camp) and TaiwaneseAmerican.org — of the census video and commercial campaign, a dated record of TAF inside the community’s census-education coalition; consistent with the camp-lineage HOLD.

  • 2012-07-29 — Register for the TAF 2012 Summer Conference (bibliographic record, taiwaneseamerican.org): registration call for the TAF 2012 summer conference — a dated conference-program record.

  • 2013-07-28 — Register for the TAF 2013 Summer Conference (bibliographic record, taiwaneseamerican.org): registration call for the TAF 2013 summer conference — the conference’s second consecutive dated registration record.

  • 2013-10-28 — Stephanie Chang Representing Detroit: the contributor bio records Amy Liao’s “t-shirt drawer filled with shirts from Taiwanese American Foundation (TAF) and TaiwaneseAmerican.org” — a dated record of a TaiwaneseAmerican.org writer as TAF camp alumni.

  • 2015-05-26 — Register for Taiwanese American Youth Summer Camps Nationwide (Ho Chie): the 2015 TAF Summer Conference is listed July 26–August 2 at Manchester College, North Manchester, IN, fee $400–$550, typical attendance 220–260, “the largest and longest-running camp nationwide” — a dated program record.

  • 2016-04-14 — Taiwanese American Youth Summer Camps (Kristina): the 2016 TAF Summer Conference is listed July 24–31 at Manchester College, typical attendance 230–260 (grade 2 through college/young professionals) — a dated program record.

  • 2017-02-16 — Register for Taiwanese American Youth Summer Camps (Kristina): the 2017 TAF Summer Conference is listed July 30–August 6 at Manchester College, typical attendance 230–260 — a dated program record.

  • 2019-10-09 — Taiwanese American Summer Camp: Does the 3rd Gen Need It? (Stephanie Suga Chen): the essay quotes TAF’s own site (tafworld.org) — formed 1980, volunteer-run 501(c)(3), over 250 campers each summer at its flagship event, “the largest and longest-running summer camp for children and teens of Taiwanese descent in the US and Canada”; Chen’s own first camp year was 1991. The 1980 formation date here corroborates the 台灣人協進會 TAF (MFCF lineage, formed 1980) identified in Name collision above, not this awards foundation.

  • 2010-07-25 — Taiwanese American Foundation Youth Summer Conference in the Midwest (bibliographic record, taiwaneseamerican.org): a dated record of the TAF youth summer conference in the Midwest — conference-program record consistent with the camp-lineage HOLD.

  • 2011-07-31 — TAF 2011 Summer Conference: “The Ones” (bibliographic record, taiwaneseamerican.org): the 2011 TAF summer conference carried the theme “The Ones” — a dated conference-program record.

  • 2011-09-08 — TaiwaneseAmerican.org’s Ho Chie Tsai Featured on Taiwan543.net (Liz): the Taiwan543.net interview record states Ho Chie Tsai founded a grade-school-aged summer camp at the Taiwanese American Foundation before launching TaiwaneseAmerican.org in 2006 — a dated record of his program-building inside TAF.

  • 2011-11-12 — Bay Area (bibliographic record, taiwaneseamerican.org): a TAFNC-tagged benefit concert in the SF/Bay Area; TAFNC is the Northern California federation already disambiguated in Name collision above, so attribution to this awards foundation is unreconciled.

  • 2011-12-10 — TAF Chicago Holiday Hullabaloo and “Dear Taiwan” Screening (bibliographic record, taiwaneseamerican.org): a Chicago holiday event under the TAF name paired with a “Dear Taiwan” film screening; which TAF body is unreconciled (same open question as the 2013 Chicago New Year party above).

  • 2011-12-31 — TAF Winter Wonderland New Year’s Ice Skating Party (bibliographic record, taiwaneseamerican.org): a New Year’s Eve ice-skating party run under the TAF name; which TAF body is unreconciled (same Chicago-winter-event pattern as the 2011-12-10 Hullabaloo above).

  • 2013-10-24 — The Mountain Brothers (interview by Justin Yang): the interviewer’s own bio line records him as “a longtime participant and leader in the Taiwanese American Foundation (TAF)” — a dated record of a TaiwaneseAmerican.org contributor as a TAF leader.

  • 2018-04-14 — Register for Taiwanese American Summer Camps (Kristina): the 2018 TAF Summer Conference is listed July 29–August 5 at Manchester College, North Manchester, IN, fee $425–$550, typical attendance 230–260 (grade 2 through college/young professionals), “the largest and longest-running camp nationwide” — a dated program record continuing the 2015–2017 listings above.

  • 2006-09-16 — The Taiwanese American Foundation Summer Conference (Stinky Tofu): the earliest dated corpus description of the conference body — “the Taiwanese American Foundation, based in the Midwest, has been hosting its week-long summer conference for Taiwanese American grade school through college students since its inception as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 1980,” then at Manchester, Indiana with ~300+ participants yearly, and its stated mission “to foster personal growth and develop servant leaders in the Taiwanese American community for the benefit of society.” The 1980 inception date here corroborates the 台灣人協進會 camp-lineage TAF already disambiguated in Name collision above; attribution held per the existing HOLD, not merged into the awards foundation.

  • 2009-07-21 — The Return of TACL’s Leadership In Development Camp: A Glimpse Behind-the-Scenes (Ho Chie): in his account of the TACL-LID camp revival the writer names his own camp “families” as the San Francisco Bay area’s TAYL camp and the Midwest region’s TAF camp, and closes stating he ran the grade-school “Juniors” program at the Midwest’s TAF summer conference in the 1990s — a dated record of TAF inside the coast-to-coast camp network of 2009.

  • 2009-10-30 — We B HERE with KevJumba! He’s Taiwanese! (Grace): the author note records Atlanta-based TaiwaneseAmerican.org staff members Elizabeth and Grace serving respectively as program director and counselor with the Taiwanese American Foundation summer conference — a dated record of TAF conference staff drawn from the same online-community generation.

  • 2010-05-13 — True Fusion: BaoHaus NYC (Stinky Tofu, written by Vince Huang): the author biography states Vince Huang “served as a past Program Director of the Taiwanese American Foundation” — a 2010-dated record of TAF program staff, alongside the 2012-02-28 record naming a former executive director above.

  • 2011-05-02 — The Taiwanese American Story: A History in Progress (Ho Chie): the community survey names the Taiwanese American Foundation among the organizations and infrastructure — with the Taiwanese American Chamber of Commerce, NATEA, Taiwan Centers and Taiwanese Language Schools — that reflected the demographic and generational shift of the late-1980s/early-1990s community — a dated record of TAF’s place in the community-infrastructure generation.

  • 2015-07-31 — 37. Taiwanese American Foundation of San Diego Scholarship Awards (bibliographic record, taiwaneseamericanhistory.org): a scholarship-award record of the San Diego body, which lists this page among its subjects — attribution to this awards foundation vs. the San Diego same-name body held unreconciled per Name collision above.

  • 2015-12-09 — 2008 (bibliographic record, taiwaneseamericanhistory.org): records the San Diego body as the first library to carry a category for publications by Taiwanese Americans, dated 2008 — a dated institutional record; same-name attribution held per Name collision above.

  • 2018-12-17 — 台灣中心) 21st Anniversary and Fund-Raising Dinner Party (bibliographic record, taiwaneseamericanhistory.org): records the San Diego body’s 21st anniversary fund-raising dinner held 2018-03-10 at the San Diego Taiwan Center with 200 attendants — a dated institutional record; same-name attribution held per Name collision above.

  • 2014-10-12 — 9. Taiwanese American Foundation 台美協進會 (bibliographic record, taiwaneseamericanhistory.org): a TAH directory record of the “Taiwanese American Foundation” under the 台美協進會 name form; attribution held per the existing HOLD (camp-lineage TAF vs. this awards foundation).

  • 2015-01-14 — 01 (bibliographic record, taiwaneseamericanhistory.org): a 2015/01 photo-album activities record under the 台美協進會 name form; attribution held per the existing HOLD.

  • 2015-07-24 — Taiwanese American Foundation of Boston Scholarship Award (bibliographic record, taiwaneseamericanhistory.org): a scholarship-award record of the Boston same-name body already identified in Name collision above (TAH #17 波士頓台美基金會); attribution to this awards foundation unreconciled.

  • 2016-02-10 — 1966 (bibliographic record, taiwaneseamericanhistory.org): a TAH directory record presenting the TAF summer camp as the first, oldest and longest-running Taiwanese youth summer camp — a camp-lineage self-description consistent with the existing HOLD, not merged into the awards foundation.

  • 2016-04-22 — 37. Taiwanese American Foundation 台美基金會 (bibliographic record, taiwaneseamericanhistory.org): a directory record under this awards foundation’s own name form 台美基金會, dated the same day as winners20 (20. 王桂榮台美文教基金會得獎人名單) already recorded above — likely the same 2016 laureate-list record under two title forms.

  • 2017-06-27 — 69. Videos of Taiwanese American Foundation 台美協進會的影片 (bibliographic record, taiwaneseamericanhistory.org): a directory record of videos under the 台美協進會 name form; attribution held per the existing HOLD (camp-lineage TAF vs. this awards foundation).

  • 2017-08-16 — Magazines 雜誌 (bibliographic record, taiwaneseamericanhistory.org): a 2017/07 TAF magazine record extending the corpus-held TAF magazine series (2005–2006 TAF Magazines above); which TAF body publishes it held per the existing HOLD.

  • 2019-01-29 — Activities of TAF (台美協進會的活動) (bibliographic record, taiwaneseamericanhistory.org): a 2019 directory record of TAF activities under the 台美協進會 name form; attribution held per the existing HOLD.

  • 2021-08-30 — 08 (band A, taiwaneseamericanhistory.org): 洪國治’s MTSC history records that from 2017 the Midwest Taiwanese Summer Conference is fixed at Manchester University, North Manchester, Indiana — “此就是TAF 台灣青少年夏令營近二十年來集會的地點” — a dated account placing the TAF camp and MTSC at the same Manchester venue for nearly two decades; corroborates the camp-lineage TAF already disambiguated in Name collision, not merged into the awards foundation.

Note (deepen-x slice 10140900-9): the two corpus files absorbed above link this page as subject and previously had no link-back — video-184 (2025-08-01, band A oral history naming 歐春美 as CEO of the San Diego Taiwan Center / TAF of San Diego 2024–2025; SD same-name body per Name collision, attribution held) and videos-of-taiwanese-american-foundation (2017-06-27, record 69, 台美協進會 name form; held per the existing camp-lineage HOLD). No date/age conflicts introduced.

Note (deepen-x slice 10140800-9): the eight corpus files absorbed above are TAH-directory records that list this page as subject — seven bibliographic (2014 台美協進會 record, 2015 photo-album, 2015 Boston scholarship award, 2016 ff160 camp self-description, 2016 台美基金會 record, 2017 TAF magazine, 2019 activities-of-taf) plus one band-A text (our-journeys-376, 洪國治 MTSC history, 2021). The 台美基金會-form record (37) is this awards foundation’s own name form and pairs with winners20 on the same date; the 台美協進會-form records and the ff160 camp claim stay under the existing HOLD. No date/age conflicts introduced.

Note (deepen-x slice 10140700-9): the eight corpus files absorbed above add the earliest dated self-description of the conference body (2006: 1980 501(c)(3) inception, Manchester College, ~300+ participants, servant-leader mission statement), three staff/program records from the taiwaneseamerican.org generation (2009 Ho Chie’s own 1990s “Juniors” program, 2009 Atlanta program director/counselor pair, 2010 Vince Huang as past Program Director), the community-infrastructure survey placement (2011), and three dated San Diego same-name-body records (2015 scholarship awards, 2015/2008 first-library category, 2018 21st-anniversary dinner). Attribution held per the existing HOLD and the Name collision disambiguation — not merged into the awards foundation. No date/age conflicts introduced.

Note (deepen-x slice 10140600-9): the eight taiwaneseamerican.org records absorbed above continue the camp/conference-lineage pattern — two conference-program records (2010 Midwest youth conference, 2011 “The Ones” theme), Ho Chie Tsai’s own camp-founding statement from the Taiwan543.net interview (2011), a TAFNC benefit concert (2011, attribution held per the TAFNC disambiguation above), two Chicago winter events under the TAF name (2011), a contributor bio naming a TAF leader (2013), and the 2018 conference listing continuing the 2015–2017 series. Attribution held per the existing HOLD, not merged into the awards foundation. No date/age conflicts introduced.

Note (deepen-x slice 10140400-4): the eight taiwaneseamerican.org records absorbed above continue the camp/conference-lineage pattern — census-campaign co-production (2010), conference registration calls (2012, 2013), an alum contributor bio (2013), three dated conference-program listings (2015–2017), and the clearest corpus self-description of the camp body including its 1980 formation (2019). The 2019 formation date corroborates the youth-camp TAF (台灣人協進會/MFCF) already disambiguated in Name collision; attribution held per the existing HOLD, not merged into the awards foundation. No date/age conflicts introduced.

Note (deepen-x slice 10132200-4): the eight taiwaneseamerican.org records above continue the same camp/conference-lineage pattern — alumni identity (Chen, Lin, Lin Eric), conference programming (2010 tour, 2009 interview), a Chicago event under the TAF name, and the conference’s own self-description. Attribution held per the existing HOLD, not merged into the awards foundation. The 2022 Good to Eat caption is the one item that attaches a named TAF president to a date on this page’s body.

Note (deepen-x slice 10130800-4): the six taiwaneseamerican.org records absorbed above all describe the TAF Summer Conference / camp-alum lineage — consistent with the existing HOLD that this usage may denote the youth-camp TAF (台灣人協進會/MFCF) rather than this awards foundation. Attribution held, not merged.

Corpus re-check (2026-10-13, deepen-x slice 10121200-1): 5-dir grep (王桂榮 / Wang Gui-rong / Kenjohn / 台美基金會 / 台美文教基金會 / Taiwanese American Foundation) returned 120 files; previously-unlinked same-name regional bodies now recorded in Name collision — 波士頓台美基金會 (TAH #17) and 聖地牙哥台美基金會 (TAH #7, scholarship-award records), chapter-vs-independent attribution marked unreconciled. Other hits are the TAFSD/TAFNC/Seattle bodies already disambiguated above or the youth-camp TAF (existing HOLD). ourjourneys228 (FAPA 會長 roster naming 王桂榮) and ourjourneys70/26/59 (memoir mentions of 王桂榮’s 亞洲商報 / 1982 LA meeting) confirm rather than extend existing text. No date/age conflicts introduced.

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