Trickle Up helped start or expand 11,141 businesses and enabled nearly 60,000 people — Trickle Up entrepreneurs and their families — to take the first steps out of poverty. We completed a five-year strategic plan that will be our roadmap to a dramatic increase in our scale and impact, focused on serving people living on $1 a day or less.

The most significant change in 2007 was our decision to concentrate our work in eight countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This will enable us to strengthen our partnerships with the local community agencies that deliver the Trickle Up program, decentralize program administration to our regional field offices, and improve efficiency.