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Financial Resilience

Skills training helps women connect with the key knowledge they need to advance their livelihoods. This includes technical support and extension. 

Investing in women through graduation programs

Investing in Women, Transforming Communities: The ROI of Graduation Programs

by Lauren Hendricks | Apr 17, 2025 | Blog Posts, Economic Empowerment, Featured Home 1, Press | 0 Comments

As global development enters an era of reduced aid and rising need, organizations like ours that provide graduation programs face a critical question: What delivers the...

Skoll World Forum on international development

Facing a New International Development Reality Together

by Lauren Hendricks | Apr 7, 2025 | Blog Posts, Featured Home 2, Press | 0 Comments

Last week, I had the opportunity to join hundreds of social entrepreneurs, innovators, and international development leaders in Oxford, UK, for the Skoll World Forum....

Loida, con sus Padres en el negocio de tienda.

Building a Life-Changing Family Business in Guatemala

by César Ivan Juárez Barrientos | Apr 3, 2025 | Blog Posts, Featured Home 3, Press | 0 Comments

Loida Yaneth is an 11-year-old girl with Down syndrome who lives in the village of Las Minas in Guatemala, where she is enrolled in the fourth grade at her local...

Women breaking the cycle of poverty

How Women Are Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Exclusion in Latin America

by Alma Alicia Ochoa Moctezuma, Margherita di Clemente | Mar 7, 2025 | Blog Posts, Press | 0 Comments

Poverty is not gender neutral. Throughout Latin America, structural gender inequalities continue to limit women's access to economic, educational, and financial...

Women breaking the cycle of poverty

Cómo las Mujeres Rompen el Ciclo de Pobreza y Exclusión en América Latina

by Alma Alicia Ochoa Moctezuma, Margherita di Clemente | Mar 7, 2025 | Blog Posts, Press | 0 Comments

La pobreza no es neutral en cuanto al género. En toda América Latina, las desigualdades estructurales de género siguen limitando el acceso de las mujeres a las...

Help Protect Our Global Community

by Trickle Up | Mar 3, 2025 | Blog Posts, Press | 0 Comments

Dear Trickle Up Supporter,  By now, you have heard of the devastating pause in January on all U.S. foreign assistance programs. Last week, the Trump administration...

Trickle Up on Charity Talks

by Trickle Up | Feb 25, 2025 | Employee Spotlight, Videos | 0 Comments

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Tell Congress to Save U.S. Foreign Assistance

by Trickle Up | Feb 13, 2025 | Blog Posts, Press | 0 Comments

Dear Senators and Representatives, On behalf of the millions of Americans represented by our faith, humanitarian, health, education, foreign policy, development, human...

Graduation: a viable intervention for refugees

by Lauren Hendricks | Jan 28, 2025 | Blog Posts, Coaching, Economic Empowerment | 0 Comments

As global conflicts, famine, natural disasters, climate change, and human rights violations force people to flee from their homes and migrate across the globe at...

Other Projects

Economic Empowerment

To get their livelihoods off the ground, Trickle Up provides seed capital for new and diverse income-generating activities and microenterprises.

Coaching

Coaching is a key part of the Graduation Approach, which is the foundation for Trickle Up programs. Households work with coaches to plan for the future and build key life skills.

Social Inclusion & Agency

Savings groups provide women a space to collaborate and problem-solve as a group, strengthening community ties and increasing financial inclusion.