BOI – Business Development Services

This guide illustrates a step-by-step process that organizations providing business development services can use to generate benchmarking data related to these services on the microTracker site, and through consulting services with microTracker staff.

The guide is designed as a useful tool for microenterprise practitioners who want to use client outcomes data to raise funds, improve program services, and set organizational goals.

This brief publication offers strategies and practices for mobilizing funding for microenterprise training services.

Compelled by the drive to serve larger numbers of aspiring entrepreneurs amid a tighter funding environment, many microenterprise development organizations are, not surprisingly, looking more closely at distance learning.

With the continued challenge of poor credit quality stemming from the financial crisis, many organizations have looked to new approaches to serve clients who want to grow or start a business but are hampered by poor or nonexistent credit.

Documents the scale and scope of business development services work by U.S. MDOs as of 2010.

A long-time challenge facing microenterprise programs is how to reach out to larger numbers of entrepreneurs efficiently despite the distance in proximity to a program office.

FIELD’s case study of a brands strategy employed on behalf of both producer and retailer entrepreneurs examines Southeastern Ohio’s ACEnet and its experience creating three brands in the food and arts sectors.

This document summarizes the experience and lessons of six Scale Academy members with substantial focus on business development services.

In this case study, FIELD highlights the work of DC-based Latino Economic Development Corporation (LEDC).