Texas Target Communities

Texas Target Communities is the university's community-engaged learning and research program that partners with low-capacity communities across Texas to assist them with needs that would otherwise go unmet, while also collaborating with faculty and students to leverage research, courses, and other university resources. Our mission is to facilitate the transformation of communities from high-risk (or low opportunity) to equitable, resilient, and adaptive by mitigating threats to the economy, environment, and culture.

TxTC has worked with 90 low-capacity communities—rural cities and counties, inner-city neighborhoods, and non-governmental organizations—to reveal and validate persistent problems, illuminate strengths, identify promising strategies, and enable emerging opportunities. We aim to foster quality service-learning experiences for the next-generation workforce, provide quality products for communities that would otherwise not realize their full potential, and connect faculty to a network of community engagement leaders to pursue research.

Our values: We respect local knowledge and the community fabric. We desire strategic and equitable community economic growth. We believe in the preservation and restoration of environmental systems. We uphold principles of participatory and collaborative governance. We believe in nurturing the health and capacity of people. We seek to promote informed development decisions.