Dear TAP-NY Family,
Happy New Year! ✨
As we look back on 2024, we want to thank you for your continued support and engagement. This past year, we saw a surge in new members as we packed the summer and fall with fun in-person events and lifelong memories. With your help, we have continued to be one of the largest Asian-interest community groups in the greater NYC area, now with over 9,000 members and 60+ events per year!
At our core, TAP-NY exists to foster and bolster our Taiwanese American community, while remaining open to all regardless of background. This upcoming year, we’re excited to continue to bring our community together through diverse events and exciting new initiatives:
More volunteer opportunities and professional development events; while social events have been great and many, we want to ensure we satisfy our membership base with more variety in events. As a non profit organization run by only volunteers, we want to make sure we provide high quality events while making them accessible to all by maintaining reasonable costs. And lastly, we want to focus on making genuine connections and encouraging mingling among members – everyone should feel welcome and we aim to be your familiar faces at events!
As for what events to look forward to in the new year, grab a ticket for our Lunar New Year banquet! We upgraded venue while making the event attendance a bit smaller than prior years so that we can increase the quality – and we’re mixing up our performers! Look out for our monthly happy hours (more non-alcoholic ones, too), dinner series, and more food crawls.
TAP-NY continues to build upon our values of community building, openness and friendliness, and cultural and social relevance. We’re continuing to listen to community feedback and improve our event experiences.
As always, we would love to hear from you – feel free to provide anonymous feedback or come say hi at an event!
Cheers,
Jonny, Emma, and Bruce
Presidents and Vice President