World Taiwan Foundation (世台聯合基金會)
Identity Snapshot
- English: World Taiwan Foundation
- Chinese: 世台聯合基金會
- Era: Contemporary
- Geography: Taiwanese American community
- Core roles: Community organization (TAH directory)
World Taiwan Foundation is an NGO that supports international charity work across five continents and 27 countries. It focuses on four major areas: Disaster Relief, Culture and Education, Public Health, and Environmental Protection. The organization creates sustainable change by connecting and collaborating with NGOs, NPOs, government departments, UN agencies, and the corporate sector to maximize the impact of charitable donations.
Role in the Community
- 2016: co-sponsored 美國南加州留學獎學金 with 美國殷勤文教公益基金會 — scholarship record [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/awards67|TAHS #67]]
- 2015: recorded in the TAHS charity-organizations directory — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/charity-organizations-world-taiwan-foundation|TAHS #26, 2015-10-30]]
- 2015: sponsored the International Leadership Foundation (ILF) Civic Fellowship Program and related youth programs for Taiwanese American students (application via STUF endorsement, contact: Executive Director Yi-Miao Huang, info@stufunited.org) — ILF Civic Fellowship announcement. HOLD: 2015 record names ED Yi-Miao Huang vs 執行長 林鋕銘 in the 2025 record — treated as successive officers, not merged.
- 2025: launched the “UN Go！” program to train young Taiwan/US-second-generation students for internships at UN-affiliated NGO bodies; held a Times Square forum aligned with the UN High-Level Political Forum and invited former VP 陳建仁 to New York; executive director 林鋕銘 announced the global training plan (MOU-based university courses) at a NYC press conference — 台灣正義網 2025-03-28. Legal name in the record: STUF United Fund Inc. An earlier CNA/TJJ report of the same UN Go！/Times Square forum (forum date given as 2024-07-10, press conference 6-22) names 陳啟耕 as 副執行長兼發言人 and describes the two-way internship exchange (US students to Taiwan, Taiwan students to UN-affiliated NGOs in the US) — CNA 2024-06-22. HOLD: the same UN Go！/陳建仁 NYC forum is dated 2024 in this record vs 2025 in the 2025-03-28 record — not merged.
- 2017: featured in a TAHS eNewsletter record — eNewsletter: World Taiwan Foundation
- 2022-10-02 — 世台聯合基金會公益晚宴 attended by 陳建仁, framed in coverage as 國民外交 (“國民外交最好見”) — the foundation’s charity-dinner platform doubling as Taiwan-advocacy diplomacy (TJJ 2022-10-02 公益晚宴報導)
- Per NATWA’s memoir history, NATWA leaders (e.g. 程韻如) four times chaired FOTWA annual meetings held at 世台會 (World Taiwanese Congress) venues — see [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys60|Our Journeys #60 (NATWA史)]]; HOLD: 世台聯合基金會 (Foundation) vs 世界台灣人大會/WTC (Congress) are adjacent but distinct bodies — see WTC record
- Alias caution from the memoir corpus: most 世台會 hits in works/ refer to 世界台灣同鄉會聯合會 (WFTA), a third distinct body, not this Foundation. WFTA’s newsletter 台灣通訊 carried the 陳文成紀念基金會 fundraising notice ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys321|Our Journeys #321]]); WFTA annual meetings were convened in Houston under president 郭榮桔 (1980) and president 陳唐山 (1982, ~300 attendees) and seeded the 美南台灣人夏令會 movement ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys318|Our Journeys #318]]); the 1976 third WFTA annual meeting in Los Angeles first spread news of the 1975 Houston Taiwanese credit cooperative ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys244|Our Journeys #244]]); 陳唐山 as 全美會 then 世台會 president was a frequent source for the movement press ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys49|Our Journeys #49]]; publication record Taiwan Bulletin). HOLD: the abbreviation 世台會 spans three bodies (Foundation / WTC / WFTA) — not merged.