Microenterprise

Financial Literacy and Credit-building Services among Microenterprise Development Organizations 

July 1, 2010  • Joyce Klein & Luz Gomez

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From the inception of the microenterprise field in the United States, practitioners have recognized that strong financial management skills are a critical ingredient for business success. At the same time, they realize that the populations they seek to target are often those most lacking in the information, skills and access to financial products that are necessary to build such skills. As such, financial education and access to financial products have consistently been part of the range of products and services offered by many microenterprise programs