Applications Sought for Hewlett-Packard Grants

February 23, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute

Hewlett-Packard is accepting applications for its Technology for Community grant program.

The Palo Alto, Calif., company will be awarding wireless-technology packages valued at $17,000 to up to 100 nonprofit organizations in the United States and Puerto Rico. Each package includes six laptop computers, one handheld computer, a combined printer and scanner, a digital projector, a digital camera, and other equipment, as well as training to set up a wireless network and a stipend of $1,000.

To qualify for the program, nonprofit organizations must work in the areas of arts and technology, community and economic development, the environment, health and human services, or job training.

The company will begin accepting online applications on February 27. The deadline for all applications is March 22.

For more information: Go to http://www.hp.com/go/hpcommunity.

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Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.