Education

HSBC invests in educational programs that are sustainable and add value to our communities through our Community & Philanthropic Services department and through our Consumer Affairs department.

Philanthropic Giving

HSBC's Community & Philanthropic Services department focuses on projects and organizations that educate students aged 3-25, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds or for schools in economically deprived areas.  HSBC provides Corporate Contributions that give young people hope, a positive attitude, opportunities for success, and a better future.

HSBC is proud of our signature partnership with Junior Achievement, the world's largest nonprofit organization dedicated to educating young people to value free enterprise, business and economics.

Financial Education

HSBC’s Consumer Affairs department offers and supports financial education for youth and adults, including HSBC's YourMoneyCounts® financial education platform and YourMoneyCounts.com  web site, to help people become more confident in managing their money and making more informed financial decisions.

The cornerstone of the platform is the web site, YourMoneyCounts.com, which has welcomed more than 3.5 million visitors since 2003.  The easy-to-use web site has a wealth of information, interactive calculators and resources to help you manage your money, learn about saving, spending and borrowing and is available in both English and Spanish.

Adult Financial Literacy Workshops  HSBC partners with the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise (CNE) to provide Adult Financial Literacy Workshops, delivering program funding, workshop content and curriculum and employee workshop leaders.  Since the program's launch in 2003, HSBC has provided more than $5 million in grants and over $2 million in classroom materials.  The curriculum is designed to assist consumers in the areas of credit, homeownership and managing money.

YourFutureCounts™    HSBC has extended its partnership with the Society for Financial Education and Professional Development (SFEPD) through July 2010 with a renewed grant of $500,000 for the YourFutureCounts™ program, a series of personal money management and credit management seminars to juniors and seniors at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).  In 2008, 14,413 students at 71 HBCUs participated in the seminars, with a total of 48,792 students receiving this important training since the program began in 2005.