Content tagged with “FIELD”
Joyce Klein is the Director of the Aspen Institute microenterprise Fund for Innovation, Effectiveness, Learning and Dissemination (FIELD).We've all heard, and seen the data, that small...
Tags: Microenterprise, job creation, FIELD
As the Presidential campaign goes down to the wire, the debate on jobs and the economy continues to intensify. One thing both campaigns agree on is the role of small business as a key engine of new...
Tags: Election 2012, FIELD, Microenterprise
The working poor struggle to make ends meet leaving little, if anything, for household savings. At least one fourth of US households are underbanked. That is close to 60 million individuals who rely...
Tags: FIELD, Campus Microfinance Alliance, Lend for America
Contact: Elaine EdgcombDirector, FIELDThe Aspen Institute732-452-0143elaine.edgcomb@aspeninstitute.org Washington, DC, May 4, 2011 –– The Aspen Institute and the Association for Enterprise...
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Microenterprise, FIELD, Scale Academy for Microenterprise Development, ACCION Chicago, Four Bands Community Fund, The Intersect Fund, Mercy Corps Northwest, MicroMentor
The Economic Opportunities Program (EOP) advances workforce training, community college, microenterprise and asset building strategies for lower income Americans.
Tags: Economic Development, Poverty, Economics, Workforce Development, Jobs, Community College, Courses to Employment, Microenterprise, Job Training, FIELD