HP Inc. Launches Digital Learning Partnerships to Support Students and Schools Impacted by COVID-19 - Seite 3

HP Foundation

The HP Foundation has contributed $3M grants in total. $1M to support affected communities with critical medical supplies, and its board has approved an additional $2M in grants for COVID-19 relief. The HP Foundation is focused on devoting significant resources to support community response efforts over the coming weeks and months and will be working with both global and local partners to prioritize actions that will have the greatest impact. It will also direct students to the free courses on HP LIFE tied to business skills, marketing and entrepreneurship and match up to $4M this year in HP employee donations to any eligible charity.

Community donations

HP has also committed to distribute $5M in product donations supporting Education, SMB and Healthcare entities in underprivileged and underserved communities around the world. Products include laptops, printers, displays and paper. HP has also contributed financially to the HBCUvc’s Student Relief Fund while connecting HBCU students to HP’s learning program, HP LIFE and BeChangeMaker.

HP LIFE, a free program of the HP Foundation that offers modules to support skills around entrepreneurship and business development is expanding intro sessions to specifically support teacher and learners, a response to increased demand. In addition, HP is also teaming up with the Global Business Coalition for Education to provide equipment to students impacted with schools closures with Comp-U-Dopt in Houston, Chicago and Dallas, and distributing new Chromebooks for Safe Horizon’s shelters, which support children living in domestic violence shelters in New York City. Additionally, HP is teaming up with the Oakland Unified School District to provide equipment, supplies and HP Turn to Learn content to support remote teaching and learning.

Global partnership momentum

In China, HP and Rise English have jointly built a home education ecosystem in China to create a one-stop platform that conveniently convert online education content into paper texting for children’s learning. As the first step of cooperation, HP and Rise jointly launched a “Learning at Home” educational printer package, including a HP Smart Tank 518 printer, Rise English online courses and live broadcast courses, as well as a customized online learning kit. This partnership will provide convenient hardware support and rich high-quality content for home learning.