At Designed Instruction, we believe it is not enough to provide quality business services to other companies, or quality products to educators and parents. We trust that communities, and the people that comprise those communities, hold the principal claim to our society. The primary solutions to our needs, and resources for addressing those basic needs, lie with each of us as citizens, whether individuals or business entities. As the "shareholders" of our community, it is also up to each of us to take action to fulfill those needs. Toward this end, Designed Instruction devotes itself to giving back to those for whom we ultimately exist, and those whom we ultimately serve. Our giving program encompasses three general categories of endeavor—youth health and fitness, community collaborative learning partnerships, and awareness and information access.

Youth Health and Fitness
At Designed Instruction, we believe that a healthy body contributes to a healthy mind. It is important that our youth have opportunities to participate in wholesome recreational activities, and that they have parks and playgrounds, sports programs that are available to all children and that are affordable to all parents, and community leaders and businesses that take a part in their well being. Through such efforts, these children will also learn to one day give back to those in need in their own communities, and understand that opportunity for all benefits everyone in our society.

While in Colorado, Designed Instruction contributed to the Aurora Youth Sports and Recreation Service's programs as a title sponsor for the city youth tennis team. The team competed in the summer of 2003 as a member of the statewide CARA program. Now in Texas, we broaden our involvement with such programs through sponsorship of local "Little Dribblers" basketball teams this fall. We plan to continue with sponsorship of "Little League" baseball and softball in the summer of 2005, thus providing further access and affordability to these services to many families that otherwise would not able to partake of the pleasure and growth resulting from healthy competition and physical involvement.

Community Collaborative Learning Partnerships
Designed Instruction supports efforts on behalf of a variety of community institutions committed to providing learning opportunities for our youth at a local level, including financial and volunteer support for special youth events, and learning initiatives that focus on specific education objectives such as early literacy for young children. These efforts are supported through diligent volunteerism on the part of Designed Instruction staff, financial sponsorship of learning exhibits, free materials for distribution to children and families who would not otherwise have tangible learning products and activities to use with their children, and such needs as refreshments. Designed Instruction works with other businesses to encourage their contribution of matching services and materials to these efforts, helping to forge collaborative efforts on behalf of the entire community to ensure that our learning institutions can provide these additional services.

While in Colorado, Designed Instruction supported annual children's fairs and elementary graduation ceremonies at local schools in the Cherry Creek School District, and has been instrumental in encouraging like contributions from a number of local businesses. Designed Instruction's free PreKorner^™ materials represent some of our initial successes toward ensuring resources at no cost for parents, preschool teachers and child care providers. Thousands of parents and preschool child educators are benefiting from this free access to quality research-based activities that can be done at home or in preschool classroom settings. We worked with the Arapahoe Library District to assist their efforts toward early childhood literacy, as well as support of a physical exhibit. Now in Texas, we will continue to expand those efforts, to create a robust offering from which any family and all children in our community can derive benefit, to improve children's reading and numeracy skills, and to enable them in the future to contribute to an intellectual and learned community.

Awareness and Information Access
At Designed instruction, we believe that information translates into knowledge. We are constantly working to improve the scope, depth, and reliability of information available to parents and members of our local, national, and international community by providing information and awareness, through our Web site, e-mail, and toll free phone inquiry lines. We are presently building an information network that will provide unique avenues for access and awareness for diverse populations in the U.S., and seek to do the same in other areas of the world that often have difficulty acquiring information that they need to help further education in their community. At Designed Instruction, real people respond to questions and technical assistance requests, because we hold that when members of our community seek they should find. We respond, and remain always available to share our knowledge and assist with promoting the education awareness that will lead to appropriate action on the part of those who matter most—our parents, our teachers, our caregivers, and our business and community leaders who seek to take their responsibility to our children and our future seriously.

Most of the current giving efforts at Designed Instruction are centered on our local communities, in Sundown and the surrounding cities in Hockley County. However, we encourage any individuals or organizations who are freely volunteering their time and resources to worthy causes that support the above objectives to get in touch with us. Inquiries, suggestions, and ideas regarding potential collaborative learning initiatives and efforts should be addressed to:

giving@designedinstruction.com
Or, call toll free at 1-888-276-2299