BOI – Microfinance

This publication discusses the experiences of five leading microfinance organizations, which participate in the Scale Academy for Microenterprise Development.

This publication, a product of the CDFI Data Project, documents the work of 508 community development finance institutions (CDFIs) investing $5.3 billion in new financing activity in Fiscal Year 2007, an investment linked to 34,276 jobs and 57,274 units of affordable housing.

This publication, a product of the CDFI Data Project, documents the work of 505 community development finance institutions (CDFIs) investing $4.7 billion in new financing activity in Fiscal Year 2006, an investment linked to 35,609 jobs and 69,893 units of affordable housing.

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.

This publication, a product of the CDFI Data Project, documents the work of 496 community development finance institutions (CDFIs) investing $4.3 billion in Fiscal Year 2005, an investment linked to 39,151 jobs and 55,242 units of affordable housing.

This white paper examines ways credit scoring can help U.S. microlenders increase efficiency, improve risk management and achieve greater scale.

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.

This publication, a product of the CDFI Data Project, documents the work of 517 community development finance institutions (CDFIs) investing $3.5 billion in Fiscal Year 2004, an investment linked to 28,000 jobs and 43,000 units of affordable housing.

This report, a product of the CDFI Data Project (CDP), presents fiscal year 2002 data collected from 442 CDFIs.

This report is a product of the CDFI Data Project (CDP)—a collaborative initiative that produces high-quality, comprehensive data about CDFIs on an annual basis.