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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 endeavoryouth
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 mostour
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
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