LANDMARK TRANSITION: C-100 Cultural Institute becomes US-China Cultural Institute, a new and an independent non-profit entity with its own board, officers and funding.

As many members and friends of the C-100 know, C-100 co-founder and governor Shirley Young has had a life-time commitment to the performing arts and has helped lead multiple C-100 programs that have celebrated and promoted artistic exchanges between China and the United States. In recent years, those efforts have taken on a life of their own and are now internationally recognized arts programs that involve prominent artists, producers and directors from around the world, and C-100 and Shirley both recognized that these efforts deserved their own unique and dedicated cultural organization. To that end, C-100 and Shirley worked diligently during 2006 to spin off C100's artistic and cultural programming into a new and independent New York-based non-profit entity, the US-China Cultural Institute, which will now work closely with C100 but have its own board, officers and funding to be focus entirely on such programs. John Fugh, C100's chairman, noted, "We are absolutely delighted that Shirley's continued dedication to the performing arts between China and the United States has found this new vehicle to serve the peoples of both nations. We are also grateful that the US-China Cultural Institute will still be able to collaborate with C-100 whenever our mutual agendas overlap, so that the artistic community's historic ties to C-100 can also be maintained and extended."

"The US-China Cultural Institute is an independent nonprofit foundation and is no longer part of the Committee of 100, Inc."