BOI - Scale & Sustainability

FILTER EVENTS

News, Ideas, & Events

Microenterprise

Key Data on the Scale of Business Development Services

Details data documenting the number, size, and services offered by microenterprise development organizations that provide a range of training and technical assistance services to clients.

BY Elaine Edgcomb & 1 more

Publication

04.01.2010
Microenterprise

The Organizational Foundations of Sustainability

This forum, the fifth in FIELD's sustainability series, highlights efforts by Accion New Mexico · Arizona · Colorado · Nevada · Texas to systematically build a corporate culture, as well as capacity, that supports security, quality and growth for the long term.

BY Elaine Edgcomb

Publication

07.01.2009
Microenterprise

Increasing Sustainability through Improved Efficiency

The fourth forum in FIELD's sustainability series explores how Opportunity Fund in California is seeking to increase sustainability by emphasizing efficiency as part of a scale-up strategy.

BY Tamra Thetford

Publication

05.01.2009
Microenterprise

Forging Ahead: Early Lessons

Achieving greater scale has been one of the primary challenges facing the microenterprise industry for more than a decade.

BY Elaine Edgcomb & 2 more

Publication

04.01.2009
Microenterprise

Building Sustainability by Increasing Earned Revenue

The third forum in FIELD's sustainability series explores how ACEnet (the Appalachian Center for Economic Networks) is using earned income as a strategy to achieve greater sustainability.

BY Joyce Klein

Publication

10.01.2008
Microenterprise

Capital Structure & Increasing Sustainability

This forum, the second in FIELD's sustainability series, examines how Justine Petersen, an organization in St. Louis, Mo., is pursuing equity capital as part of a scale-up and sustainability strategy.

BY Elaine Edgcomb

Publication

04.01.2008
Microenterprise

Sustainability Through Social Enterprise

This forum focuses on social enterprises as a way for microenterprise programs to increase their sustainability.

BY Tamra Thetford

Publication

01.01.2008
Microenterprise

Pursuing Sustainability in the Microenterprise Field

An exploration of current research and writing on the issue of sustainability in the microenterprise field.

BY Elaine Edgcomb & 2 more

Publication

03.01.2007
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
Load More