Taiwanese Association of South Florida (南佛州台灣同鄉會)
Identity Snapshot
- English: Taiwanese Association of South Florida
- Chinese: 南佛州台灣同鄉會
- Era: Contemporary
- Geography: Taiwanese American community
- Core roles: Community organization (TAH directory)
The Taiwanese Association of South Florida (南佛州台灣同鄉會) is a regional chapter of the Taiwanese Association of America (全美台灣同鄉會), the national umbrella organization for Taiwanese American community associations in the United States. The chapter serves the Taiwanese American community across the South Florida region.
Role in the Community
- Chapter’s own record: the TAH corpus holds the chapter’s newsletter record — Taiwanese Association of South Florida Chapter 南佛州台灣同鄉會 (newsletter), 2017-01-05.
- Chapter history and directory records: the corpus also holds a dedicated chapter history — South Florida Chapter, 2019-03-14 — and the chapter’s directory entry TAA 全美台灣同鄉會南佛州分會, 2015-11-04.
- Civic recognition activity: in 2018 the chapter honored Congresswoman Ileana — the record is held at Honor Congresswoman Ileana – TAA South Florida (2018-10-02).
- Regional community institutions: the South Florida Taiwanese community around the chapter includes Evangelical Formosan Church of South Florida 聖光台福基督教會 (record, 2016).
- Community history: the chapter’s region is documented from the early 1970s wave of Taiwanese students and community organizing in 345. Taiwanese American in South Florida in Early Period 1970’s.
- Host of the first sea-cruise summer camp (2015): the chapter hosted that year’s US Southeast-region Taiwanese summer camp as a cruise — 吳明美’s memoir records chapter president 李玉英 planning it from the moment the chapter took on the role, under 總幹事 許清政, with 總召集人 徐彩惠’s financial backing and 張良州 arranging the ship; the camp’s theme was 「團結做伙向前行」 and it drew about 50 second-generation youths to a parallel 認親結緣 program — 02. The same record lists chapter president 李玉英 among the opening-ceremony speakers alongside 東南區理事長 涂惠玲.
- Sibling chapter in the same region: FAPA’s 南佛州分會 president 李嵩義 met President Clinton in 09/2016 — 463. FAPA南佛州分會長李嵩義會見克林頓總統; FAPA’s national mobilization reach to Miami is noted in 228. 美國對台六項保證決議案的推手 — 昆布勞與 FAPA 的故事.
- Chapter of the national umbrella 全美台灣同鄉會 (Taiwanese Association of America).
- Regional institutional ecosystem: alongside the chapter, the corpus records the 南佛州台灣人聯合基金會 (Taiwanese United Foundation of South Florida, record 2016-08-19) and the older South Florida Taiwanese Cultural Festival (1999, outreach record) — evidence the South Florida community ran parallel cultural and philanthropic bodies to the chapter. First-generation youth organizing is separately recorded via the Miami chapter of the Taiwanese Junior Chamber of Commerce community-service event (2011-06-08): TJCC Miami 社區服務活動.
- Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09250800-6): fresh grep of works+articles for 南佛州/South Florida returned the known cluster plus three previously unlinked records now absorbed above: #41 南佛州台灣人聯合基金會, #36 South Florida Taiwanese Cultural Festival/1999, and the TJCC-Miami 2011 service event (taiwaneseamerican-org). Hit set otherwise unchanged.
- Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25: SKIP — fresh grep of works+articles for 南佛州台灣同鄉會/South Florida returns the same chapter records (newsletter, 55-brief-history, south-florida-chapter-taa, 345-early-period) already absorbed above. New adjacent hit noted for cross-linking only: 56. Brief history of Taiwanese United Foundation of South Florida (a separate South Florida institution, not this chapter): 56. Brief History of Taiwanese United Foundation of South Florida, 2019-03-15. Verified saturated.