HP supports non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and communities to help increase job skills and foster entrepreneurial development through innovative use of technology.

Hewlett-Packard provides the following in Africa:

• Works with local partners who offer training for under- or unemployed youth and very small businesses in under served communities.
• Gives technology and cash grants to educational institutions and programs in order to encourage innovative teaching and enhance students’ success, particularly in maths, the sciences, and engineering. One of HP’s priorities is to assist educational institutions in under served communities.
• Provides resources and technology solutions to help increase job skills and foster entrepreneurial development.
• Gives cash grants and technology solutions to small businesses, charitable organizations, and environmental projects.

HP Philanthropy and Education supports exclusively non-profit accredited institutions (not individuals).

HP focus in three areas:

• Education
• Economic Development and
• Environment.

The grants are competitive and launched at the beginning of each fiscal year (November). Unsolicited requests for grants are not accepted.

For information about grant guidelines and processes in HP’s Africa region, visit: Hewlett-Packard (HP) Philanthropy