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Microenterprise

Harnessing Technology for Microenterprise

Explores innovative ways that technology can be used by both microenterprise development programs and microentrepreneurs

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Publication

01.01.2007
Microenterprise

Credit Scoring for Microenterprise Lenders

This white paper examines ways credit scoring can help U.S. microlenders increase efficiency, improve risk management and achieve greater scale.

BY Andrea Berger, & 3 more

Publication

01.01.2007
Microenterprise

Understanding National Lending Trends and Local Markets

If for-profit lenders succeed in taking away the microenterprise field's lowestrisk customers, this will raise costs and loss rates, making the path toward self-sufficiency in lending even more difficult.

BY Joyce Klein

Publication

09.01.2006
Microenterprise

Providing Capital, Building Communities, Creating Impact: FY2004

This publication, a product of the CDFI Data Project, documents the work of 517 community development finance institutions (CDFIs) investing $3.5 billion in Fiscal Year 2004, an investment linked to 28,000 jobs and 43,000 units of affordable housing.

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Publication

07.01.2006
Microenterprise

Scaling Up, Achieving More

Explores the various factors that affect an organization’s ability to reach scale and offers recommendations for funders interested in this issue.

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Publication

05.01.2006
Microenterprise

Microenterprise Development Programs

Explores the need for programs to become more entrepreneurial in order to achieve greater sustainability and suggests ways donors can support such efforts.

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Publication

02.01.2006
Microenterprise

EITC and Microentrepreneurs

Explores how one microenterprise development organization (West Company in northern California) is helping low-income microentrepreneurs document their participation in the economy and take advantage of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).

BY Karen Doyle Grossman

Publication

09.01.2005
Microenterprise

Monitoring Client Outcomes

Microenterprise development is a process of supporting emerging entrepreneurs to develop and grow small businesses.

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Publication

09.01.2005
Microenterprise

Fulfilling the Promise

To forge a vibrant future, the U.S. microenterprise field must move in new directions.

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Publication

07.01.2005
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