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Taiwanese-American Foundation

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Taiwanese-American Foundation

Taiwanese-American Foundation (台美基金會) is listed as a group member of the |Taiwan Center Foundation of the Greater Los Angeles.

Identity Snapshot

  • Chinese: 台美基金會
  • English (as listed): Taiwanese-American Foundation
  • Relation: Taiwan Center group member (official listing)
  • Source: https://www.taiwancenter.org/group-members · taiwancenter-org-group-members.md

Role in the Community

The corpus shows an active 台美基金會 publishing and giving awards from the 1980s onward:

Regional chapters appear in the record:

Founding account preserved in the Taiwan Center opening memoir (29. 南加州台灣會館開創的史料): 王桂榮 Kenjohn Wang donated US$1,000,000 to establish the Foundation, which “awards yearly scholarships to extraordinary talents both in the US and overseas”; the Wang family subsequently donated its 20,000+ sq ft Rosemead estate to the Taiwan Center. 李培吾 Li Pei Wu — also general convener of the Taiwan Center preparatory committee — was elected Chairman of the Foundation and worked with Wang on the Taiwan Center (see also 153. Kenjohn Wang 王桂榮).

Further corpus records:

  • 573. Taiwanese American Foundation 2005-2006 TAF雜誌 — magazine run 2005–2006, extending the publication series 1986季刊 → 1995頒獎特刊 → 1999年刊 → 2005–2006.

  • 49. Taiwanese American Foundation 台美基金會 — community record describing TAF as the first Taiwanese American non-profit foundation, 1982.

  • 788. 台美基金會1982-2000頒獎特刊 (2000) — retrospective award special issue covering 1982–2000, consistent with the 1982 founding date in record #49.

  • 786. 台美基金會1997年刊 — fills the publication series between 1995特刊 and 1999年刊.

  • 李文枝 — the Foundation also sponsored cultural events (family concert of composer 蕭泰然’s lyrical music, 1995).

  • 2018-07 — A-band memoir: the author kept the original signed attendee documents of the Taiwan Center’s first formal meeting in 1998 (台美基金會 context); recalled 20 years later.

  • Taiwan Center 21st Anniversary (2018-03-10) — the San Diego chapter’s 21st anniversary & fundraising dinner at San Diego Taiwan Center with 200 attendants, implying the chapter’s own 1997 origin.

  • Listed among the self-organized, independent overseas Taiwanese groups of the 1980s in 2016-03, and in 黃武東’s overview of Taiwanese in North America ( 2016-11) — community primary testimony that 台美基金會 was counted among the movement’s core bodies by the 1980s.

  • Our Journeys 162 (EN) — grand-opening report excerpted from the San Diego Taiwanese American Foundation and Taiwan Center YAM Quarterly (Vol. 11, Issue 3, Autumn): remodeling plaques presented to Dr. Ming Wu and Dr. Winston Lue, opening concert by pianist Julie Wong 翁致理 and soprano Irene Lee 李智惠 (Chinese names per the corpus record’s subject links) — the San Diego foundation’s own quarterly is corpus primary material.

  • 何汝諧 — award-acceptance memoir: the Foundation’s 2001 科技工程獎 (science/engineering award) is corpus-attested by a laureate’s own account.

  • 台美協進會 (TAF) national thread — formally renamed Taiwanese American Foundation in summer 1980 as a US-registered, Christian-ethos, non-profit “Global Brotherhood” education/service body, best known for its K–college youth summer camp running continuously for 30 years (Our Journeys 258). Presidents named in Our Journeys 377: 莊明哲 (1980–82), 張信義 (1983–85), 鄭天助 (1986–88), 卓甫良 (1989–91); the 1981 Calvin College camp is recalled in the same memoir. Related activity records: TAF 台美協進會的活動 and longest-running.

  • 7. Taiwanese American Foundation Summer Camp (2015-07-16) — family/youth summer camp; filed in that record under the style 台美協進會 / Taiwan American Foundation

  • 2. Miss Taiwanese American Foundation 台美小姐選拔基金會 — pageant foundation bearing the name

Corpus re-check (2026-09-22, deepen-x slice 09211400-1, vault-only): grep of works + articles for 台美基金會 / Taiwan(ese)-American Foundation returns the identical hit set already absorbed above (taf-summer-conference, ourjourneys162-eng, ourjourneys30, 785 頒獎特刊, miss-taiwanese-american-foundation, ourjourneys29-eng); no new absorbable material; both HOLDs below stand. Verify-saturated. Corpus re-check (2026-10-10, deepen-x slice 10091414-25): full-corpus grep (works/articles/sources/events/topics) returned new chapter-level material — San Diego governance memoir (Our Journeys 26), 陳秋山 first-chairman account (Our Journeys 386), TAF San Diego CEO oral history (video 184), 2001 科技工程獎 memoir (mystories 428), and the 台美協進會 national-lineage records (Our Journeys 258/377, activities-of-taf, ff160) — all absorbed above.

HOLD: whether the LA Taiwan Center group member 台美基金會 is the same national body as the 台美基金會 behind the 1986–1999 publications, or a separate/related entity — not merged. HOLD: naming drift 台美基金會 vs 台美協進會 vs 台美小姐選拔基金會 across these records — treated as distinct style/entity threads, not merged; the 台美協進會 (TAF) national records above are kept as that separate thread, not as evidence that the LA group-member 台美基金會 and the 1980-renamed TAF are one body.

From the record

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

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