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Giving initiatives
Education | Arts and culture | Community investment
TI and the TI Foundation focus giving in three key areas that are important to our company and our communities:
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Education. Increase the number of U.S. high school graduates who are math- and science-capable with (for example) algebra-based initiatives for eighth-grade students and programs reaching minority and female students. |
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Arts and culture. Support arts and cultural institutions that will attract and retain employees and boost the economic growth of the communities in which we operate. |
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Community investment. Enrich civic, business, and health and human services programs that meet the greatest community needs. |
Education
TI's commitment to excellence in education has been a cornerstone of our community involvement for decades. Each year, we contribute millions of dollars in grants and other gifts to schools, colleges and educational programs. We designed these programs to produce measurable, sustainable and replicable gains in student achievement.
In 2008, TI issued $8.7 million in grants to support K-12 and university science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) research and education programs in the U.S. We supported students by purchasing technology for their classrooms, launching a middle-school algebra improvement initiative, awarding scholarships, and sponsoring math and science fairs and competitions.
The TI India Foundation raised enough money through employee donations to send 100 children from the slums of Bangalore to primary schools. |
Additionally, the TI Foundation paid grants of more than $4.3 million to support education institutions in 2008. These included almost $1 million in matching gifts from TI directors, employees and retirees to support educational institutions. These contributions provided support to K-12 public, private and charter schools, as well as higher education institutions.
Our employees' grassroots humanitarian activities in India and China led TI and our employees to set aside dollars to focus on improving education in Asia.
In Bangalore, TI India employees volunteer their time and expertise to raise funds and help persuade impoverished families to send their children to school rather than work. In 2008, they awarded 109 Early Bird scholarships to underprivileged children – five times as many as 2007 – so that they could attend primary school. TIers around the world help in this endeavor, as many contribute to the scholarship effort when visiting TI India.
In China, TI employees also volunteer to support education initiatives. In 2008, they awarded scholarships to 100 freshman students who needed financial assistance to study engineering at three Chinese universities.
Arts and culture
As a multinational corporation, TI is committed to embracing the arts, culture and heritage of our global work force. We partner with arts and cultural organizations that impact our business environment and enrich the quality of life in our communities.
Each of our operating regions supports arts and culture in its own way. In the U.S., much of our corporate and foundation support is directed to arts and culture organizations that define the perception of cities where we operate, particularly in the Dallas area, where nearly one-third of our total work force lives.
TI donated more than $700,000 to various arts and culture programs in the area in 2008, while the TI Foundation paid almost $1.4 million in grants and $286,000 in matching gifts. These donations supported performing arts, museums, and educational outreach and performances for local schools.
One special program in 2008 was support of the 50th anniversary of Jack Kilby's invention of the integrated circuit at TI. In honor of this landmark invention, TI sponsored an exhibit of Kilby's photographs at The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University and an exhibit at The Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, in addition to contributing to a memorial in his childhood hometown in Kansas.
Community investment
TI and the TI Foundation invest in organizations that improve the quality of life in our site communities, including:
- Capital or civic campaigns. We consider supporting campaigns based on community and economic impact.
- Health and human services. We primarily support such services through the TI Foundation's annual United Way donations. Beyond United Way, we provide limited support to organizations meeting our greatest community needs.
- Memberships. We seek memberships based on our business priorities and the requesting organization's dedication to community improvement.
In the U.S., TI's primary philanthropic partner in health and human services is the United Way. In the early 1960s, company founder J. Erik Jonsson helped oversee efforts by the American Red Cross and the Community Chest in Dallas to create what was then called the United Fund. In the years since, TI employees from around the country have been involved with United Way as board members and volunteers.
In 2008, U.S. TIers took the "Live United" message of our United Way campaign to heart, giving and pledging $2.9 million. That amount, combined with a TI Foundation gift of $2.1 million, resulted in a $5 million investment toward lasting community improvements.
Recognizing that community needs increase in an economic downturn, the TI Foundation gave a $200,000 challenge grant as part of their contribution to encourage others to step up giving during challenging times.
TI contributed more than $1.1 million, and the TI Foundation $1.8 million, to other community investment organizations in 2008. This support included several agencies serving multiple community needs, as well as fundraising walks in Dallas such as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Walk to Cure Diabetes, AIDS LifeWalk, and Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure events in both Dallas and Tucson.
TI's Community Involvement Team, comprising representatives from our various diversity initiatives, has worked for more than a decade to build and sustain community programs that improve the quality of life in the greater Dallas area.
Additionally, TI sites outside Dallas sometimes fund programs that support their communities. For example, TI Tucson gave to several programs, including the local symphony, Junior Achievement, Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and numerous health and human services and education initiatives such as the Third Annual Texas Instruments/Burr-Brown Summer Engineering Camp for middle-school students, held at the University of Arizona.
As needs around the world vary from region to region, our global strategy allows each site to manage community investments locally. From providing free immunizations to supplementing childhood nutrition programs, our employees work to address pressing issues in their own communities.
In 2008, employees globally responded to the earthquake in China by raising more than $140,000 in cash contributions for the Red Cross disaster relief efforts, of which almost $39,000 was raised by our China-based employees for the China Red Cross. They also donated more than 1,000 items of used winter clothing to the victims of the earthquake. This was in addition to a $250,000 corporate contribution.
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