BOI Publications

This third and final report on FIELD’s Welfare to Work Learning Assessment describes outcomes experienced two years after TANF clients enrolled in microenterprise programs.

This publication explores the experiences of African Americans who either operate their own informal businesses or are employed informally.

What are the barriers Latino entrepreneurs face and how might they be helped to move from the informal to the “formal” economy?

This fifth Best Practice Guide navigates the whirlwind of the technological revolution, introducing a framework by which microenterprise practitioners can use technology to enhance and expand their business, and offering practitioners guidance on assisting their clients with technology needs.

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.

This report from MicroTest draws on three years of performance data to offer a succinct description of trends in the microenterprise industry.

As practitioners know, microenterprises are more common in the United States than most people realize.

This free report describes the scale and significance of microenterprise lending within the CDFI industry.

Some preliminary issues confronting microenterprise programs which plan to offer services to informal economy entrepreneurs.

This paper presents the findings at the mid-point of FIELD’s Welfare to Work Learning Assessment one year after TANF clients enrolled in microenterprise programs.