BOI – Funder Guides

This guide examines the role of business ownership and entrepreneurship in helping formerly-incarcerated individuals navigate re-entry.

This guide identifies tools and strategies funders can employ to advance business ownership as a means to build wealth and reduce the racial and ethnic wealth gap.

Owning a business is one key means through which individuals and families build assets.

This guide explores the issues relating to the pricing of microenterprise loans that funders may want to consider as they engage with lenders.

Summarizes recent research results on the success of microenterprises in creating jobs that provide income for owner and employees alike.

This guide describes the key steps microlenders have taken in order to scale their lending and the implications of their experiences for funders interested in supporting greater scale.

This guide explores the new roles that microenterprise programs are taking on to build the credit of entrepreneurs

Explores Individual Development Accounts (IDAs), matched savings account that that some microenterprise programs are offering to clients to help them accumulate savings that can be used to purchase business assets.

Explores how the microenterprise industry is connecting with the emerging social enterprise field.

Examines how microenterprise development programs and the enterprises they assist can further economic development strategies.