Mission

Founded in 1979, the Trickle Up Program helps the lowest income people worldwide take the first steps up out of poverty by providing conditional seed capital, business training, and relevant support services essential to the launch or expansion of a microenterprise. This proven social and economic empowerment model is implemented in partnership with local agencies. Trickle Up offers grants, not loans, to our entrepreneurs, and we focus our support on women in Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, Africa, and the United States. In 2006 Trickle Up launched 10,162 businesses in 14 countries. Trickle Up believes in people and their capacity to make a difference. We empower the world's poorest people to develop their potential and strengthen their communities.