Trickle Up helps very poor people make their way out of poverty. We provide business training, seed capital grants and support to help people launch a microenterprise.
Trickle Up offers grants, not loans, to participants because we are committed to working with the extreme poor — people living on less than $1 a day who are unable to obtain a microloan.
We focus our support on women. The majority report that, once they have launched their businesses, they are able to provide better nutrition, health care and education for their families. We also focus on providing support to people with disabilities.
We start or expand more than 10,000 businesses every year. That’s because when it comes to fighting extreme poverty, launching these microenterprises works.