Trickle Up

Non-profit partnering with women to forge pathways out of poverty

650 million people live in extreme poverty in the world today, defined by the World Bank as those living on $2.15/day or less. Trickle Up’s mission is to partner with women in extreme poverty to build economic opportunity and drive inclusion. We support women and highly vulnerable populations to forge resilient pathways out of poverty by starting microenterprises and building livelihoods. We drive large-scale change by partnering with local organizations, global institutions, and local governments, helping them adopt and adapt evidence-based, proven programming. Since 1979, Trickle Up has reached 2.3 million people through partnering with 460,000. We aim to serve 45,000 women this year, reaching an additional 225,000 currently living in extreme poverty. We have active projects in Colombia, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Mexico, and Uganda, and teams based in India, Latin America, Uganda, and the U.S. Our goal is to reach 5 million people by 2030 by partnering with a total of 1 million women participants living in extreme poverty.

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Impact and Scalability with 'Graduating to Resilience'

Trickle Up partners with women living in extreme poverty to drive economic and social inclusion. Graduating to Resilience is a consortium led by AVSI Foundation in partnership with ...

Empowering Entrepreneurs to End Extreme Poverty

Nathalie Laidler-Kylander, president and CEO of Trickle Up, joins Richard Brubaker on the Mission Driven Podcast to talk about Trickle Up's unique approach to ending extreme povert ...

International Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship

Nathalie Laidler-Kylander, President and CEO of Trickle Up, joins Bill Burke on The Optimism Institute's podcast, Blue Sky, to talk about her career path to Trickle Up and her opti ...

ESPN Anchor Linda Cohn Joins Trickle Up as a Speaker for Annual Fundraiser

Trickle Up hosts its annual fundraiser on April 29, 2024 featuring Linda Cohn (ESPN) and Rebecca VanDyck (Bay FC), and honoring Penny Foley (The TCW Group). The fundraiser will als ...

Las Técnicas

Members of Trickle Up’s technical team share Indigenous heritage with our project participants. The FUERTE project allows them to connect more deeply with their native languages, ...

Trickle Up Names New Regional Director in Latin America

Trickle Up Names Natalia Wills as New Latin America Regional Director. Trickle Up nombra a Natalia Wills como nueva Directora Regional para América Latina.

2023 Annual Partners Meet in Odisha

Trickle Up staff hosts an annual partner meeting in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, to review progress and plan for the coming years. The event brought together staff from Trickle Up's many o ...

New Partnership with Ministry of Gender in Oaxaca

Trickle Up staff visits Oaxaca, Mexico, to meet with and sign an agreement with new partners in the Ministry of Gender in Oaxaca. Local partners CAMATI and other stakeholders atten ...

TARGETING

Targeting plays a prominent role in coaching, a key part of the Graduation Approach and Trickle Up's programs. Read the brief to find out more about how we continuously improve thi ...

Lilias' Journey

Lilias Amana is a force in her community in Imvepi Refugee Settlement in Uganda. But she didn’t start there. Lilias is a South Sudanese refugee to Uganda, having fled from violen ...