Application Deadline: February 12, 2025
Applications are now open for the 2025 Hp Digital Equity Accelerator Program. The Digital Equity Accelerator helps nonprofits that are working to advance digital inclusion scale their impact. The Digital Equity Accelerator offers selected organizations USD $100,000 capacity-building grants, HP technology (~USD$100,000 value), and a six-month, virtual program including training, mentorship, and technical consultations, designed to help strengthen capacity and scale digital equity impact. In 2025, the Digital Equity Accelerator will focus on supporting nonprofits in Greece, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Spain.
Eligibility Requirements
Qualified organizations must meet the following:
- Hold active legal registration as a not-for-profit organization
- Be capable of receiving funding from a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) organization
- Perform majority of work in support of people and communities in Greece, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Spain
- Be committed to advancing more inclusive and equitable access to education and economic opportunities
- Focus primarily on equipping historically disconnected youth and adults with critical skills needed to participate and thrive in an increasingly digital economy
- Currently reach at least 10,000 beneficiaries (direct and/or indirect) through the work that would be further scaled through the Accelerator program. Participants with any level of direct interaction/engagement in your program may be counted as a direct beneficiary. Individuals who are not interacting directly with your program, but who are served by the skills and knowledge acquired by your direct participants may be counted as indirect beneficiaries.
- Assign a primary contact for the Accelerator program that possesses fluency in English (note: The Accelerator program curriculum, mentoring, and communications are delivered in English language only).
- The rise of generative AI is transforming the future of work, at risk of leaving those without fluent digital skills behind and further exacerbating the digital divide.
Benefits
- The Digital Equity Accelerator offers selected organizations USD $100,000 in unrestricted grant funding from the HP Foundation, HP technology (valued at about USD $100,000), and a six-month, virtual program including training, mentorship and technical consultation designed to help strengthen organizational capacity and scale digital equity impact.
Program timeline
- February 12: Application closes at 11:59 pm EST
- April 2025: Accelerator cohort announcement
- April 28: Accelerator program begins
- September/October: Pitch Fest
For More Information:
Visit the Official Webpage of the Hp Digital Equity Accelerator Program