The Taiwanese American Foundation (Chinese: 台美文教基金會) is an organization working in the Taiwanese immigrant community of the United States. The organization was established by Kenjohn Wang and his wife, emigrants from Taiwan to Long Beach, California, in 1982.[1] Kenjohn Wang served as founding chairman.[2][3]
Its main activity is a week-long summer camp for elementary schoolers through adults in the last week of July to the first week of August at a college campus (now a university), in the Midwest called Manchester College. It has five major programs for each of the age groups: Elementary School, Middle School, High School, and College (the groups are named Junior, Junior High, Youth, and TAFLabs or a counselor respectively). Each year, there is a theme that is cycled every four years, in this order: Leadership, Identity, Ethics and Values, and Communication.
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References
- ^ "Academicians Maw-Kuen Wu and Chien-Jen Chen Receive Taiwanese-American Foundation Prize". Academia Sinica. 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
- ^ Wang, Flora (28 February 2007). "The 228 Incident: Sixty years on - Taipei documentary provokes outrage". Taipei Times. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
- ^ Lin, Mei-chun (25 September 2002). "Yu tells legislator 'my English is very bad'". Taipei Times. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
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