on the interest payment drawing from its initiation fund and raise more from the private continuously. The Foundation was established with a fine designed structure. The Foundation has a Board of Directors whose member invited by the nominator from the Executive Yuan. The nominees should be from the government officers, artists and arts professionals, and scholars. The Board member is supposed to be a paid job. The Director of the Board is to be elected by the Board members. The members will be re-selected every three years, with the possible extension of another three-year period once. It is also legislated in the National Culture and Arts Foundation Act that the number of government representatives on the Board cannot be more than one fifth of the total members. The Board of the Foundation is responsible of the making and reviewing of budgets, and have the full authority of approving grants. Also the setting of the Foundation, such as the quota of government representatives on the Board and the appointment of the Board, may be copied from the similar agencies of other developed countries, such as Canada, which has great examples of having quasi-independent, arms length agencies to distribute arts grants, the Foundation was established to accommodate Taiwans distinguish government structure and political environment. It is apparent that Taiwan does not have a healthy systematic government structure, from the phenomenon of the bizarre system that allows the existence of both a president and a premier in the same government system with a lot of ambiguity on the responsibility and accountability of the double leaders and double parliaments. Neither the people nor the government is familiar with the arms length system so it is maybe better and simpler to set up the Foundation as a private non-profit organization which nurtures and encourages the participation and accomplishments in arts and cultural activities. The Founda...
