In July 2016, Wang was appointed the first Asian-American woman to chair the UCLA Foundation Board, and has served on the UCLA Board of Directors since 2008. She is likewise a member of the executive committee for the Centennial Campaign for UCLA, a UCLA Foundation board that raises money for student scholarships and fellowships, which raised $5.49 billion and counting. Wang has served on numerous other boards including the Boards of Directors of both Facing History and Ourselves and the Preferred Bank (PFBC). In 2019, Wang's company, Plastpro, Inc., donated $100,000 toward an endowment at Glenbeigh Hospital for addiction. Alongside her husband Walter, Wang is co-founder of the Walter and Shirley Wang Foundation. The foundation has supported various philanthropic initiatives in the realms of education, poverty reduction, assistance to domestic violence victims, Asian immigrant welfare, cancer research, and AIDS research and advocacy. The couple are members of the
Committee of 100 (C-100). Wang and her husband are trustees of the U.S. Olympic Committee and also serve on the Board of the Los Angeles Olympic Committee 2028. Shirley and Walter Wang donated to
UCLA to establish an endowment to support both students from middle-income families and students studying abroad. At UCLA, the foundation endowed the first academic chair on U.S.-China relations and Chinese American studies in the United States, as well as a chair for Drug Discovery at the university. One of Shirley Wang's first major gifts to UCLA, her alma mater, was an endowment in partnership with the
China Institute to send teachers to China. The couple also funded Wang Hall at the Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, providing the lead donation for the renovation of the Harvard Westlake Humanities and Art Building. Wang serves as the chair of the Education Committee and is a member of the Board of Trustees of
Harvard-Westlake School. The Wangs were prominent supporters of the
Drug Enforcement Administration Foundation and helped bring the
DEA Museum to the
California Science Center in Los Angeles to educate the public on illegal drugs and trafficking. The Wangs also established an endowed chair at the Cedar Sinai Medical Center for Pediatric Surgery to fund novel research in pediatric surgery, as well as assist underprivileged children in need of surgery. The Walter and Shirley Wang Foundation donated $250,000 to found an Outward Bound Center for underprivileged youth in
New York,
New York. In the wake of the
COVID-19 global
pandemic, Plastpro, Inc. and JM Eagle donated surgical masks to Ohio facilities local to the Plastpro, Inc. factory. The Wangs donated $1 million to the Mayor's Fund of Los Angeles, as well as supplies for the creation of face shields for use at Cedars Sinai Medical Center and the Innovation Lab at
UCLA. In October 2020, Wang was elected to her alma mater Columbia University's board of trustees. Wang also sits on the college's Parent Leadership Council. In March 2022, Wang and her husband donated $10 million to Columbia to enhance undergraduate social life in
John Jay Hall,
Wallach Hall, and
Alfred Lerner Hall. She also donated $1 million to fund a passageway linking the two new buildings on
Columbia Business School's new campus in
Manhattanville. ==See also==