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Taiwanese American Foundation of San Diego

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|Taiwanese American Foundation of San Diego

Taiwanese American Foundation of San Diego (聖地牙哥台灣中心) is listed as a group member of the |Taiwan Center Foundation of the Greater Los Angeles.

Identity Snapshot

  • Chinese: 聖地牙哥台灣中心
  • English (as listed): Taiwanese American Foundation of San Diego
  • Relation: Taiwan Center group member (official listing)
  • Source: https://www.taiwancenter.org/group-members · taiwancenter-org-group-members.md

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

Role in the Community

  • In the TAH record the foundation appears under Chinese name 聖地牙哥台美基金會: 2008 — credited with hosting the first library category collecting Taiwanese American publications, feeding the 台美人著作資料庫 (08).
  • Related San Diego center records: 162. 聖地牙哥台灣中心開幕典禮與慶祝音樂會 (grand opening, 2015).
  • 7. Taiwanese American Foundation of San Diego 聖地牙哥台美基金會 — dedicated 2014-10-12 corpus record for the foundation (bibliographic record).
  • 38. 聖地牙哥台灣中心夏令營 — 2017-11-15 record of the center’s summer camp, community-education activity under the 聖地牙哥台灣中心 name.
  • TAH Oral History Series — video interview, 歐春美 (Chunmei Ou Lin) (posted 2025-08-01): Chunmei Ou Lin — see 歐春美 — is named as CEO of San Diego Taiwan Center and of the Taiwanese American Foundation of San Diego, 2024–2025; first-person account of her leadership in the community.
  • First chairman: 陳秋山博士 (Pacific Biotech / 太平洋生技 founder), per his UCSD Taiwan Studies Center donation record — see 386. UCSD台灣研究中心 — described there as 「聖地牙哥台美基金會第一任董事長」and a longtime supporter of Taiwanese American activities.
  • Center history memoir: 黃正源, 「聖地牙哥台灣中心的前半生與轉型」(2014-09) — 黃正源.
  • 21st anniversary & fundraising dinner 2018-03-10 at San Diego Taiwan Center with ~200 attendants, under the joint name 「聖地牙哥台美基金會/台灣中心」 — TAH record: 21st Anniversary Fund-Raising Dinner.
  • Publishes the 「YAM 季刊」 jointly as 聖地牙哥台美基金會及台灣中心 — YAM 季刊.
  • 2021-01: the center’s 理事長 歐春美 joined the joint statement of the five major U.S. 台灣會館 (NY, DC, LA, San Diego, SF) opposing the politicisation of science in the 萊豬 controversy — 美國五大台灣會館評萊豬 (2021-01-12). Predates the 2024–2025 CEO role in video-184; different title/period, not merged.
  • 2024 台美人物誌 interview of 王克雄 (Dr. Keh-hsiung Wang), 現任台美基金會董事長, who runs 聖地牙哥台灣中心: the foundation bought its 13,000 sq-ft building through community fundraising (「透過向台灣鄉親募款購買地產並經營這所台灣人的家」); he also co-founded 美國台灣研究院 — 王克雄博士專訪 (2024)。His description treats 台美基金會 and 台灣中心 as one jointly-run institution, further corroborating the joint-operation reading below.
  • 2024-03: center hosted a 《BIG》讓孩子拯救世界 film screening with director 魏德聖 Q&A (7838 Wilkerson Court, San Diego) as one of four SoCal venues — BIG 南加放映 (2024-03)。
  • Founding memory: 楊禮朱 recalls the first formal meeting of the Taiwan Center / 台美基金會 in 1998, with the original signature list of participating 同鄉 — 陳秋山 among the names still without grey hair; 潘富鵬 insisted 「中華民國這四個字可不要出現在台灣中心」 — 楊禮朱.
  • 聖地牙哥台灣中心 opened 1997-02-28 after fundraising led by first chairman 陳秋山博士, with 潘富鵬博士 as center director — see 陳秋山 and 黃正源. HOLD: opening date 1997-02-28 (黃正源 memoir / 會館紀事) vs 楊禮朱’s memory of 「1998頭一次正式會議」 in work 337 — meeting vs opening may differ; not merged.
  • HOLD: naming conflict — this page lists 聖地牙哥台灣中心 as the Chinese name; the TAH directory work 72 lists 聖地牙哥台美基金會. Not auto-merged (may be related but distinct entities). The video-184 record treats San Diego Taiwan Center and the TA Foundation of San Diego as a joint leadership role, consistent with the two names operating as one institution; the 2018 anniversary record and YAM 季刊 likewise carry both names jointly.
  • Naming precedence anecdote (2026-10-11 re-pass): in 楊禮朱’s 337 memoir, the LA contact 王桂榮 complained 「San Diego 怎可以比他們早用台美基金會這名稱」 — San Diego adopted the 台美基金會 name before the Los Angeles chapter did. Places the name dispute within the 1998 first-formal-meeting period recalled in work 337.
  • Separate TAH bibliographic record for the center itself: San Diego Taiwan Community Center 聖地牙哥台灣中心 (2014-10-12, band B) — companion record to work 7 above.
  • 呂錦文 (Jinwun Winston Lue), 「The Birth of the Permanent Home for the Taiwanese American Community Center of San Diego」 — 2014-09 — memoir of acquiring the permanent center home; see 呂錦文.
  • Community-service programs under the center: food drive 「Take a Bite Out of Hunger」 — 2017; scholarship awards by the foundation — 2015; 認識科技演講系列 science lecture series — 2018; 台語學校 Taiwan School — 2016.
  • Charity drive: 「愛心車毯子」 blanket drive by San Diego Taiwan Center — 8. 愛心車毯子 by San Diego Taiwan Center.
  • Co-hosted the Asian Culture Festival of San Diego (聖地牙哥亞太裔文化節) as the San Diego Community Center / 聖地牙哥台灣中心 — 38. Asian Culture Festival of San Diego.
  • 2011-12-18: hosted a screening of the documentary 《好國好民》 (Dear Taiwan, dir. 陳麗貴) at the San Diego Taiwan Center (7838 Wilkerson Court) as one of the U.S. tour venues — 好國好民 美國各地放映 (2011-11).
  • Consolidated activity record: 「聖地牙哥台灣中心的活動」 — 2019; second 台美人著作資料庫 library-collection record — 2010 (companion to work 163).
  • Note on generic 台美基金會 records: the corpus also holds 「台美基金會」 quarterly/yearbook records (works 784, 785, 786, 787, 1986–1999) and a 2001 science/engineering award memoir (work 428, 何汝諧). These are NOT attributed to the San Diego chapter here — the 台美基金會 name was used by several chapters (LA, Boston, Seattle) and the records do not specify San Diego; work 785 (1995 頒獎特刊) also predates the San Diego opening.

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