Tracking our goals
The goal:
150M people by 2030
Reach 150 million people by 2030, since the beginning of 2021.1
Where we’re at:
82.4M
People reached through 2025 by HP’s social impact programs and partnerships.
The goal:
Future of Work Skills
Enroll 2.75 million HP LIFE users between 2016 and 2030. Previously 1.5 million.
Where we’re at:
1.6M
HP LIFE users enrolled since 2016.
What is Digital Equity?
Digital equity will be achieved when every person has equitable and inclusive access to the tools, skills, and knowledge needed to participate in the digital economy.
Canada's goal
Canada prides itself on its superior social safety net but has yet to address the affordability and adoption challenges of providing high-speed broadband internet access to low-income households and northern and Indigenous communities. To tackle this, the federal government has set a goal of connecting 98% of Canadians to high-speed internet by 2026 and 100% by 2030, a target to meet their goals.
In 2024, the HP Digital Equity Accelerator supported 3 Canadian non-profits
Access to Success runs Canada's premier accelerator for accessibility startups. Their unique program, called ATS Labs, helps companies create and scale life-changing technology for people with disabilities. By fostering a culture of accessibility, Access to Success empowers individuals to reach their full potential and live their best lives. Their initiatives also include research and advocacy to drive systemic change and promote disability inclusion to #EnableEveryone.
The funds, hardware, and programming from HP will help unlock the next phase of growth at Access to Success. “Not only did the funds help us expand our programming for accessibility-focused startups, HP's own programming from the Digital Equity Accelerator has helped us resolve critical roadblocks for our organizational growth. Most excitingly, HP's hardware funding will help us set up the new Centre for Accessibility Innovation, a flagship co-working space and innovation hub in Toronto dedicated to accessibility innovations. With HP's support, we aim to benefit 150,000 people with disabilities in 2025.”
Jays Care Foundation, the charitable arm of the Toronto Blue Jays, uses the game of baseball to give kids across Canada a place on a team where they belong. Jays Care believes that baseball for development programming can play an important role as an effective low-cost intervention to address the pressing mental and physical health challenges for children and youth across the country. Proudly working in all ten provinces and all three territories, Jays Care runs baseball for development programming for more than 59,000 children and youth annually. Through its Field Of Dreams program, Jays Care has also invested nearly $15 million into building or refurbishing more than 160 community baseball diamonds across Canada. Jays Care is recognized as a top 100 Charity in Canada and are proud two-time winners of Major League Baseball’s Commissioner’s Award for Philanthropic Excellence.
Jays Care is using the funding from the HP Digital Equity Accelerator to create a learning management system to facilitate best in class sport for development training for Jays Care staff across the country. Jays Care is using the hardware component of the HP Digital Equity Accelerator program for youth in their programs who struggle with digital access issues.
Chapter One is a global non-profit that closes the reading gap by providing children with one-to-one support at the time they need it the most, focusing on underserved Indigenous schools and communities throughout Canada. Since 2022, HP Canada has partnered with Chapter One to help expand its 1:1 literacy tutoring program across the country. Every year, HP employees also serve as Online Reading Volunteers, to help struggling students improve their reading skills and confidence. Volunteers read with the same child each week during the school year, via Chapter One’s bespoke platform at dedicated reading stations installed in participating classrooms.
With the support of the 2024 HP Digital Equity Accelerator, Chapter One is tripling the number of children receiving High Impact Tutoring at home, from 500 to 1,500 students by December 2025. These children live in underserved and isolated Indigenous communities and receive daily 1:1 High Impact Tutoring from Chapter One’s trained paraprofessional tutors on families’ smartphones, via the organization’s proprietary online literacy platform. Chapter One is also doubling online readership of its Global Free Library, which houses a collection of original e-storybooks co-created with Indigenous communities. Brought to life by Indigenous writers and illustrators, the storybooks feature audio clips of Elders speaking foundational words in the original language of the communities. HP funded the creation of a story called Weaving Cedar with Auntie as part of this program.
HP’s education programs and digital learning initiatives, including the Digital Equity Accelerator, aim to open up access for Future Workers across 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.
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.
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.
