Giving Back
Our 2+1 Giving Pledge
By 2030, we’ll give 2 percent of our annual pretax profits to charitable causes in the form of monetary and product donations or discounts. And each year NIers will spend 1 percent of their work hours volunteering in their communities.
2022 Impact
of annual pretax profits given to charitable causes in the form of monetary and product donations of discounts
in combined monetary and product donations (annual, pretax)
volunteer hours logged
Our 2022 Major Partnerships
In 2022, we met our goal of cultivating major nonprofit partnerships to support every NI Corporate Impact pillar.
- Engineering a Healthy Planet: We formalized a partnership with a $1 million donation over four years to the Ocean & Climate Innovation Accelerator to advance knowledge of the ocean’s critical role in global health.
- Building an Equitable and Thriving Society: We gave a $500,000 donation to Finding Home ATX to support innovative, data-driven solutions for tackling Austin’s crisis of unsheltered homelessness.
- Changing the Faces of Engineering: In 2021, we announced a $3.4 million commitment to Changing the Faces of Engineering through major grantmaking, and this year we deepened our partnerships with major partners AUTMHQ, Code2College, C.R.E.A.T.E. (Thinkery and Boys & Girls Clubs of the Austin Area), and Project Lead the Way.
Spotlights on Giving and Volunteering
China: Impact Week
In December 2022, our team in China hosted an Impact Week for employees, with activities including a charity bazaar that raised funds and awareness for local nonprofit partners, volunteer appreciation events, and a drive to encourage employees to take environmentally friendly transportation to work.
Community Outreach in Tel Aviv
For Holocaust Memorial Day, NI Israel and Zikaron BaSalon hosted an on-campus event where a daughter of Holocaust survivors shared her family’s story. In 2022, the team also volunteered for the Leket Israel food bank, Lasova soup kitchen, and Shavim center for people with psychiatric disabilities.
Malaysia: Robotics & Lab Sponsorships
Our Penang team’s long-running TechMentor Robotics Program and NI Robotics Competition help underserved students discover engineering and technology. We also sponsored an additional NI Embedded Systems Laboratory at the National University of Malaysia, enabling 300 students to use our technologies.
South Korea: Toy Recycling and Donation
When our Korea team moved into a new office in 2022, they used the funds from recycling old furniture to fund a partnership with Toy Recycle Union, which promotes plastic toy recycling. NIers volunteered with TRU to disassemble toys and purchased 2,500 toys for local orphanages and other facilities.
Taiwan, China: World Robot Olympiad
Our Taiwan, China team invited the local winning WRO team to the NI offices to tour our labs, network with and learn from our engineers, and present their project to our team.
United Kingdom: Good Hope Farm
In 2022, our UK team held two group volunteering days at Good Hope Farm, a therapeutic day center for adults with learning difficulties. Employees helped by gardening, building work benches, organizing welcome areas, and painting fences.
