Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments has a long history of partnering with United Way of Metropolitan Dallas to drive community impact. In fact, Texas Instruments’ founders and their families are credited with helping to establish the “Community Chest” that would become United Way of Metropolitan Dallas.
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas plays a significant role in creating opportunity for all North Texans, and our support for them through the years reflects our confidence in their ability to address our community’s most pressing challenges. Investing in United Way is one of the most effective ways to make a lasting impact and bring about positive long-term change in our community.
Partnership Spotlight: Sparking a Love of Learning
As United Way of Metropolitan Dallas works to improve college and career readiness rates in North Texas, TI saw an opportunity to better engage students with learning through hands-on experiences. The company recognized that their field of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) in particular had the potential to get kids excited about learning.
The TI Foundation worked with United Way to launch Heal Play Learn, a partnership with Educate Texas that delivers experiential learning opportunities to local students. Through activities such as dance and music classes, science experiments and cooking demonstrations, the program encourages social and emotional wellness, physical activity, creativity, collaboration and critical thinking skills. Following the first year of programming, participating students showed improved retention rates in DeSoto schools, as well as significantly higher projected STAAR test scores.
$100 million was a bold goal for United Way, indeed for any nonprofit organization. Unite Forever is the first endowment campaign for United Way of Dallas and—with the help of our donors, as well as our dedicated leaders and vice chairs—the campaign soared.
