Asian Cultural Council: Donors

Endowment Donors
Anonymous
Asian Oceanic Group
Blanchette H. Rockefeller
Fellowship Fund, Japan
Estate of Blanchette H. Rockefeller
The Ford Foundation
The Japan Foundation
The JDR 3rd Fund
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
National Endowment for the Humanities
Mr. and Mrs. George D. O’Neill
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd
Mr. Laurance S. Rockefeller
Seibu Saison Group
The Starr Foundation

Annual Donors: American Foundations
A number of ACC grant programs are currently funded through annual and multi-year contributions from several American foundation which are making a special commitment to the Council’s work. For example, the Ford Foundation is providing assistance for performing arts and cultural management fellowships in Indonesia;The Henry Luce Foundation is supporting ACC fellowships for American artists and museum professionals traveling to Asia; the Rockefeller Foundation is supporting some of the Council’s grant programs in the Mekong Region of Southeast Asia; the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund provide annual unrestricted assistance to the ACC.

Donors in Asia
The ACC has four grant programs in Asia that are supported by local donors:

The Council’s Hong Kong Arts Program, made possible by donations from a broad group of supporters in Hong Kong, provides fellowships to especially promising artists, students, and scholars from Hong Kong and other parts of China for research, study, and creative work in the United States. Limited support is also available for projects sponsored by Hong Kong institutions that involve Hong Kong-United States or Hong Kong-Asia cultural exchange. The Lee Hysan Foundation in Hong Kong is providing annual funding for two twelve-month fellowships, and eight other donors have made multi-year commitments to fund individual fellowships through the Hong Kong Arts Program: the Sir Kenneth Fung Ping Fan Foundation Trust I, the Hsin Chong-K.N. Godfrey Yeh Education Fund, Désirée and Hans Michael Jebsen, Raquel and Paul Li, Citi, Credit Suisse, the Sovereign Art Foundation and the AIA Foundation. In addition, numerous others provide annual contributions to the Hong Kong Arts Program. The Asian Cultural Council awarded eighteen individual fellowships through the Hong Kong Arts Program in 2006.

In Japan, the ACC’s Japan-United States Arts Program is made possible through an endowment donation from the Seibu Saison Group, paid to the ACC through the Japan Foundation in 1983. Income from these funds has been supplemented each year since 1989 by an annual contribution from the Saison Foundation in Tokyo. Beginning in 1993, a group of former grantees in Japan initiated a unique and extraordinary fundraising effort in memory of Blanchette H. Rockefeller, who served as ACC chairman from 1980 to 1990. The funds raised have been used to establish an endowed Blanchette H. Rockefeller Fellowship Fund within the Japan-United States Arts Program.

In Taipei, the Council’s Taiwan Fellowship Program was established in 1995 in partnership with the Sino-American Asian Cultural Foundation, a foundation created specifically to serve as the ACC’s partner in raising funds and making grants on behalf of U.S.-Taiwan exchange. The program is currently supported by annual donations from the SAACF, the Group 33 supporting committee, the Yageo Art Foundation, the Accton Corporation, and others.

Newest of the Council’s Asia-based programs is the Philippines Fellowship Program, formally inaugurated in 2000 in collaboration with the ACC Philippines Foundation, a foundation established in Manila to collaborate with the ACC in raising funds and making grants on behalf of Philippine-American cultural exchange. A broad range of donors in the Philippines and the United States have contributed to the Philippines Fellowship Program, which includes the annual Quimson Fellowship and Natori Fellowship.

ACC Donors in 2006

Chairman's Circle Donors

Hope Aldrich

Polly and John H. J. Guth

Karen and Kevin W. Kennedy

Jane and Charles Klein

Anne and Vincent Mai

Gee Gee and Hamish Maxwell

Alexandra Munroe

Jane Gregory Rubin and Reed Rubin

Maria and Bill Spears

Patricia and Henry Tang

Other Donors

The following additional donors contributed annual support of $1,000 or more to the Asian Cultural Council during 2006.

Individuals

Anonymous

Colin and Nancy Campbell

David Chang

Celia Hong Chien

Kenneth S. Davidson

George and Susan Fesus

Nelly and Kenneth H.C. Fung

Stephen B. Heintz

Kuan-The Ho

Suzie Ho

Mar-Lin Hsu

Pao-Lin Hsu

Désirée and Hans Michael Jebsen

Richard and Mary Lanier

Raquel and Paul Li

Guo-Song Liu

Elizabeth J. McCormack

Oscar Satio Oiwa

Mr. and Mrs. George D. O’Neill

James H. Ottaway, Jr.

Robert S Pirie

Angeles T. Quimson

Isaac and Jacqueline Shapiro

Jonathan Smith and Sherrill L. Blalock

Thomas S. Tzeng and Leana Yang

Pao-Ching Chang Wang

Rita and James Wu

Su-Hwa Chou Yang

Pauline R. Yu

Foundations and Corporations

ACC Philippines Foundation

Accton Art Foundation

AIA Foundation

Alisan Fine Arts Limited

The Atlantic Philanthropies

Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund

Chateau Mouton Rothschild

Citi

Credit Suisse

Cypress Group

Far Eastern Group

The Ford Foundation

The Incorporated Trustees of the Hsin

Chong-K.N. Godfrey Yeh Education Fund

The Japan Foundation

The John H. Foster Foundation

Kenneth S. Davidson Family Foundation

Leon Levy Foundation

Lee Hysan Foundation

Mandarin Oriental Foundation

Mei De Foundation

Metropolitan Philanthropic Fund

The Natori Foundation

New York Community Trust

The Philanthropic Collaborative

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

The Rockefeller Foundation

The Saison Foundation

The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation

Sino-American Asian Cultural Foundation

Sir Kenneth Fung Ping Fan
Foundation Trust I

The Sovereign Art Foundation

Spring-Time Group Limited

Yageo Foundation

Yiqingzhai Foundation

Supporting Partners in Asia

The Asian Cultural Council gratefully acknowledges the contributions made by its supporting partners in Asia, whose commitment and generous assistance are crucial to the success of ACC programs. Lists are as of September 1, 2007.

Hong Kong Friends’ Committee

Hans Michael Jebsen, Chairman

Ivy Wu, Vice Chairman

Kenneth H.C. Fung, Honorary Chairman

Paul Calello and Jane DeBevoise

Anson Chan

Brenda K. Chow

William W. Flanz and Janet Nathanail

Carl Fung and Yvette Yeh Fung

Nelly and Kenneth H.C. Fung

Jean Ho

Désirée and Hans Michael Jebsen

Joyce and Bradley F. Kerr

Alice King

Tasha and Anish Lalvani

Nancy and Peter T.C. Lee

Raquel and Paul Li

Raymond Liu

Mabel M. Liu

Joan Lye

Ian R. McCabe

Stacey and Robert R. Morse

Michael G. Palin

David Pong Chun-Yee

Jay Shaw and Marissa Fung Shaw

Robert Shum

Wendy and Yichwan Wang

Cissy and Shin Watari

Anne and John R. Witt

Ivy and Gordon Wu

James Yang and Ada K. H. Tse

Lisa and John J. Ying

Blanchette H. Rockefeller Fellowship Fund Committee, Japan

Setsu Asakura, Chairman
Kozo Yoshida, Vice Chairman
Mikio Kato, Vice Chairman
Yuko Hasegawa
Toshi Ichiyanagi
Masako Koyano
Fumihiko Maki
Kimpei Nakamura
Keiko Nishigaki
Donald Richie

Yu Serizawa
Tetsuji Shibayama
Makiko Sugiyama
Shuji Takashina
Hideo Tomiyama
Tadanori Yokoo
Shinichi Yuize

Sino-American Asian Cultural Foundation, Taiwan, Board of Trustees

Douglas Tong Hsu, Chairman

Shirley S. P. Peng

Ralph Samuelson

Marie H. Shah

Barbara P. C. Tsai

Group 33, Taiwan

Cecile Shah Tsuei, Chairman

Fanny Chang

Jenny Chang

Pi-Lien Liu Chang