Mr. Cyrus Tang
CTF Founder
“I believe success in life is not based in assets gained or knowledge acquired. It is how we make use of what we have to contribute to society”.
what we fund
The Foundation supports initiatives that drive impact across three main focus areas: education, healthcare and community development.
We work with an established network of trusted partners in higher education in China and the US that help us source and execute on projects that align with the foundation’s mission.
I have been greatly influenced by the ideal, found in traditional Chinese
philosophy as well as certain Western ethical traditions, that in addition to
enriching understanding, knowledge also makes moral claims on individuals.
A conscientious individual recognizes the inseparability of thought and action – that
to truly “know” means one must meaningfully “act”, especially in the face of
profound challenges. A person cannot honestly say (s)he knows the stakes of the
environmental crises facing humanity if that knowledge is not followed up by
efforts to address those crises.
PROJECT HIGHLIGHT
lifting the fog around china
& asian Americans
How the Team of 1990 Institute is Bridging the Gap Between Cultures
Funding Area: Community Development
Cultural differences can get extremely complex, especially when it comes to Eastern and Western worlds, whereas essentially we are all people, who care about very similar things in life. The focus on building the knowledge about this common thread between us, lies at the core of the series of the videos, produced by 1990 Institute. Packed into short-form video cliff-notes, these visual bites tell about various aspects of Chinese life that not a lot of people are aware of.
Dan Chao, Grace Yu, Susana Liu-Hedberg and their team of talented producers and program managers create evergreen video content, encouraging Chinese studies, making this knowledge approachable and balancing serious subjects with edutainment. With people to people approach, the videos help to bridge the gap between two different cultures.
156K views
60-90 sec
60+ ideas
5+ hrs
“Equipping our next generation with knowledge about China is key to understanding the very complex but important relationship with the U.S. ”
