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A. Missions of TAOA
TAOA is a volunteer-driven, not-for-profit Taiwanese American
(TA) organization registered in the State of Maryland on 10/29/2004 and committed
to the following missions:
- To promote
and facilitate the interaction and integration of TAs with mainstream America.
- To further
encourage TA's volunteerism and generosity in giving back to the community.
- To foster
the understanding and generate interest in the TA's Taiwanese background and cultures, and to solidify the friendship of TAs
and other ethnic Americans.
- To further
advance and raise the visibility, standing, and unique identity of TAs and Taiwan
as a sovereign nation in the surrounding U.S. and international
communities.
B. Functions of TAOA
In particular, TAOA has been established to perform the following functions:
- Sponsor/manage the future annual Taiwanese American (TA) Independence Day Parade (TAIDP) Program initiated
in May 2002 by two Founders (RCS and CSH) of TAOA, as the 2004 TAIDP Committee decided on 7/31/04 to incorporate
this Committee/Program into TAOA.
- Revive and manage the discontinued TA Cross-Community Volunteer (TACV) Program.
- Sponsor or participate in other cross-community activities, such as the annual National Cherry Blossom
Parade in DC in early April, Montgomery County Fair in mid-August, etc.
- Engage in other cultural and educational activities and social and charitable services consistent
with TAOA stated objectives.
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C. Means of Accomplishing the Stated Goals
These goals will
be reached by TA volunteerism, mainly through the following efforts:
- Aforementioned planned activities in selective cultural, educational, and social service
programs in the multi-ethnical cross-cultural communities.
- Efforts of the TAOA Board members (i.e., Founders), who are the past and/or present leaders of
various TA organizations in the Greater Washington-Baltimore Region, primarily through their professional or personal connections/influences
and moral persuasions, to perform the planning, fundraising, and execution of prospective outreach programs and coordination/
mobilization of the area TAs and/or TA organizations for their voluntary participation, etc.
A successful example of this working model can be found in the highly accomplished facilitation, coordination, and
independent management by the TAIDP Committee (the predecessor of TAOA) of participation in the 2002-2004 TAID Parades by
many TA individuals, friends, and organizations (TAA-GWC, TAA-GBC, TAA-GRC, TAA-US, FAPA, CATF Credit Union, etc.) in the
Mid-Atlantic Region.
- Encouragement of fund and other donations, as TAOA funding solely depends on public
or private donations. If you want to make donation or have any related questions,
please contact our Treasurer, Diana Lin, via email at: DianaLin99@netscape.net
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