HP Digital Equity Accelerator Program 2025: Call for Applications for Africans (up to $100,000)
People who lack access to technology and digital literacy are increasingly excluded from social and economic opportunities as society grows more digitally connected. Nonprofits promoting digital inclusion can increase their influence with the aid of the Digital Equity Accelerator.
Serving 27 nonprofit groups in nine countries since 2022, the Digital Equity Accelerator has helped partner organizations reach over 8.1 million additional people. The Digital Equity Accelerator will support organizations in Nigeria, Spain, Indonesia, and Greece in 2025.
Benefits
In order to help increase capacity and scale the impact of digital equity, the Digital Equity Accelerator provides a six-month virtual program that includes training, coaching, and technical consultations, as well as USD $100,000 capacity-building awards and HP technology (worth around USD $100,000).
Eligibility
- Local nonprofits and NGOs that are working to advance digital equity in Greece, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Spain are invited to apply for the 2025 program.
- 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 supporting 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 direct beneficiaries. 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. Therefore, we particularly encourage organizations with AI solutions that advance digital equity and strive to address the growing disparity to apply.
February 12, 2025 is the deadline.
To apply, click HERE.
