Pictured (from left) with the Red Cross Humanitarian Award are TI employee and American Red Cross board member Neisha Strambler-Butler, Ezra Penermon, TI director of Community Relations, Trisha Cunningham, TI director of Global Corporate Citizenship, and Andy Smith, TI director of Corporate Philanthropy.

TI and its employees are committed to giving back to the communities where the company operates. Two awards recently recognized these efforts, one for the company’s contributions to education and job growth in Dallas and another for disaster relief in the U.S. and abroad.

Dallas Regional Chamber’s Momentum Award
TI was honored with a Dallas Regional Chamber Momentum Award in the Workforce Catalyst category, recognizing the TI Foundation's support of the Dallas Independent School District's (Dallas ISD) Advanced Placement Incentive Program (APIP) and TI's opening of a semiconductor manufacturing facility in Richardson, Texas.

Established in 2003, the Momentum Awards celebrate companies and organizations that have had a positive effect on the economy through job growth, and location and expansion activities. The awards also honor companies and organizations that contribute to the vitality of the Dallas/Fort Worth region.

At the Chamber's International Business Luncheon recently, Den Bishop, president of Holmes Murphy and Associates, praised TI for "generating significant job growth opportunities through their new RFAB in Richardson" and "supporting the Dallas Independent School District's Advanced Placement Incentive Program."

"Congratulations, Texas Instruments. You continue to give back to this community in so many ways, and we thank you," he said.

Envisioned by education supporter Peter O’Donnell, Jr. and initiated by the O’Donnell Foundation in 1996, the APIP has given financial incentives to date to 9,926 students in 17 high schools who might otherwise not have taken Pre-AP and AP courses and passed more than 16,000 AP tests. The TI Foundation gave a new three-year $1.5 million grant that will, along with continuing support from the O’Donnell Foundation and Dallas ISD, expand the program to all 32 Dallas high schools this school year and help pass a milestone of 10,000 students.

TI’s new fabrication plant in Richardson, Texas (RFAB) was also highlighted in the award presentation. RFAB is the world’s most advanced analog manufacturing facility. The company expects to employ as many as 1,000 people there when the fab is fully operational.

American Red Cross Humanitarian Award
The American Red Cross presented TI and the TI Foundation with its Circle of Humanitarians Award last month for donating more than $1 million to major disaster relief efforts in the U.S. and abroad over the past five years.

Michael J Brown, vice president of the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C., also expressed appreciation for TI employees' support of the agency's global disaster response programs.

"TI is pleased to work with the American Red Cross whose excellent reputation, global scope, and reliability makes it a premier humanitarian organization," said Ezra Penermon, director of TI Community Relations. "It's important for us to know we have a trusted, experienced partner who allows TI, TI employees and the TI Foundation to support quick response to disaster events anywhere in the world."

The TI-American Red Cross partnership has allowed TI and TI employees to quickly and safely mobilize donated funds and emergency supplies to people devastated by Hurricane Katrina, the China earthquake, the Philippine typhoon, the Haiti earthquake and the Pakistan flood disasters in recent years, Penermon said.

"American Red Cross has proven to be an effective disaster relief partner with unparalleled services, and TI is proud to support this important work," he said.