Digital equity is about much more than just internet access. It’s making sure everybody has the tools and digital literacy to use various technologies to their full potential, opening up opportunities to participate in the digital economy.
Tracking our progress
HP’s education programs and digital learning initiatives, including the Digital Equity Accelerator, aim to open up access for people across the world—with a focus on creating opportunities for women and girls, the aging, people with disabilities, educators, and the historically marginalized.
Education
100 million
We aim to reach a milestone 100m adult learners & students via educational programs
Through a diverse array of programs and digital initiatives, HP is enabling better learning outcomes for people around the world.
Building the workforce of tomorrow in Canada
ComKids
Since 1998, ComKids has been supporting youth in low-equity, underserved communities; providing essential digital infrastructure, educational content, and support for those facing significant barriers to digital inclusion, digital literacy, and academic success.
Since 2015, HP Canada has been the official Technology Partner of ComKids, ensuring participating youths receive the latest HP laptop while providing value to the charity. Our employees volunteer their time at celebrations, and fundraising events and also provide support to the ComKids staff through 40 Days of Doing Good initiatives.
Girls E-Mentorship
Girls E-Mentorship (GEM) is a nonprofit that offers mentorship for high school girls facing socioeconomic barriers to help them achieve their education and career potential.
HP Canada’s President and CEO Mary Ann Yule is a proud ambassador for GEM. Since 2021, HP Canada sponsors GEM’s annual professional seminar, GEMinar, where HP female leaders share their insights on career success with the high school girls.
Learning for a Sustainable Future
HP Canada has been supporting Canadian charity Learning for a Sustainable Future (LSF) since 2012 to help facilitate the transformation of teaching and learning to address the complex environmental, social, and economic challenges of the 21st century.
HP Canada helped LSF create the Resources 4 Rethinking (R4R) database of sustainability resources for educators, which includes over 1,600 lesson plans, books, videos, outdoor activities and apps/games in French and English that have all been thoroughly reviewed by their peers. R4R benefits over 130,000 educators across the globe annually.
Parents Engaged in Education
Parents Engaged in Education is a nonprofit that fuels the academic achievement of over 1,500 schoolchildren from low-income families in the Greater Toronto Area.
HP Canada supported the nonprofit in establishing Canada’s first Education Bank and helped fund their fully equipped technology centre, which offers coding, robotics, and 3D-printing classes to students. The centre is also home to the EdBears Robotics Team, which won a national competition in 2022, also funded by HP Canada. Our employees regularly volunteer their time, since 2020, to mentor the schoolchildren and support their career discovery.
T. L. Kennedy Secondary School
T. L. Kennedy Secondary School is located near our headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario, and caters to schoolchildren from diverse backgrounds.
HP Canada awarded the school with a technology grant to support its robotics team, and regularly extends its financial support to the organization while our employees volunteer to mentor students to support their career discovery.
Toronto Metropolitan University
At Toronto Metropolitan University, HP Canada provides strategic guidance, through its board service, as well as funding support to the TechTalent Accelerator since 2022 to help nurture the next generation of industry leaders. The program provides students who are interested in a career in technology with industry exposure, training, and hands-on learning opportunities.
Youth Without Shelter (YWS)
YWS is a 53-bed emergency shelter residence for youth experiencing homelessness between the ages of 16-24 in Etobicoke, Toronto. YWS’ goal for each resident is to strive for employment and affordable housing by the time they are ready to move out. HP Canada employees regularly volunteer at YWS in various functions, from fundraising to cooking meals. We have also provided YWS with a technology grant that enables greater IT access and educational opportunities for youth in the ‘Stay in School Program’.
HP Learning Initiative for Entrepreneurs (HP LIFE)
HP LIFE offers over 32 free IT and business skills courses in 8 languages to help people all around the world build skills for the future.
HP Canada regularly promotes HP LIFE among learners, aspiring entrepreneurs, and job seekers in the country, and contributes to its course content by sharing its expertise on global business trends.
Schulich School of Business – York University
In 2003, HP Canada endowed a chair in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to Schulich School of Business, to help educate the next generation of business leaders on the importance of CSR.
Creating equity via literacy
HP is partnering with NABU, a non-profit working to disrupt the cycle of poverty with a low-bandwidth reading app, to publish books in children’s native languages.
Unlocking female students’ potential
Partnering with Girl Rising, we aim to equip 10 million students and teachers with new, inclusive curriculum and technology solutions in the U.S., India, and Nigeria.
How we're doing
1.9m
Young people in Nigeria, India, & the US impacted with Girl Rising through 2021
674,000
Children impacted via literacy programs in association with NABU through 2021
593,000+
People impacted in Nigeria via Mentor a Teacher Program, our collaboration with 1 Million Teachers and Girl Rising to empower teachers to support girls and their right to quality education through February 2022
Economic investment
$17.4 million
Company and HP Foundation cash contributions in 2021⁴
Through both financial investment and the purchase of HP technology and products, we use economic investment to widen economic opportunity and help the young and disadvantaged grow their skillsets.
Giving back with the HP Foundation
By the end of 2021, donations surpassed $60m5 from the HP Foundation and employee giving.
40 Days of Doing Good
Almost 3,700 employees globally took part in HP’s 40 Days of Doing Good, volunteering more than 26,000 hours on 171 community projects.
Disaster recovery and resilience
We supported response efforts for the Haiti earthquake, the US, Tunisia, Greece and Turkey wildfires, Belgium, Netherlands, and Germany floods, and Hurricane Ida, among other natural disasters.
Global community contributions
HP Partners with NABU and Girl Rising
This partnership will empower children around the world with books in mother tongue languages.
Social impact in Haiti
Through our ocean-bound plastics supply chain, we are generating income opportunities and supporting children’s education.
Technology and training for Syrian refugees, Lebanon
With the Clooney Foundation for Justice, UNICEF, and Google.org, we are supporting refugees, students, and teachers.
World on Wheels (WOW) in rural India
Our mobile learning labs overcome the power, infrastructure, and equipment challenges that hamper educational opportunity.
HP Learning Studios in Azraq Refugee Camp, Jordan
HP technology supports educators to craft unique learning experiences and helps students to solve real-world problems.
Tech Hubs
Empowering students in Southeast Asia, who otherwise do not have access to technology, to learn essential computer skills
How we're doing
692,000
HP employee volunteering hours contributed since 2016, of a target 1.5m by 2025
$389,000
In HP Foundation grants related to COVID-19 in 2021
$494k
Donated by the HP Foundation during HP’s 40 Days of Doing Good to support employee-nominated educational charities in 2021
R&D investment
$1.9 billion
Invested in research and product development in 2021 to improve lives through access to transformative technology
From PCs to 3D printed prosthetics, HP is innovating in healthcare, putting clinician and patient needs first and widening access to advanced medical tech.
3D printing power harnessed
We’re expanding the potential of 3D printing by manufacturing everything from face shields and respirator parts to prosthetic limbs.
A revolution in cancer cell isolation
HP’s Microfluidics Lab team works to develop a new method for research purposes to isolate rare cancer cells.
Inclusive design as the new normal
One in seven people globally has a disability. HP’s accessibility product testing is opening a dialogue about best practice and industry-wide change.
Our worldwide patent portfolio includes over 28,000 patents, as of October 31, 2021.
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Corporate giving
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Footnotes and disclaimers
- We enable better learning outcomes by supporting education through provision of learning and digital literacy programs and solutions.
- Our programs aim to accelerate digital equity through providing access to at least one of the following: hardware, connectivity, content, or digital literacy.
- Includes valuation of employee volunteer hours, employee donations, HP Foundation match, and HP Foundation grants.
- Data includes HP’s matching contributions and contributions from the HP Foundation to other organizations.
- Product donations are valued at the internet list price. This is the price a customer would have paid to purchase the equipment through the HP direct sales channel on the internet at the time the grant was processed. Valuation rates of employee volunteer hours are based on CECP standards.