BOI Publications

Over the last few years, university student-powered microenterprise organizations have emerged offering direct services to low-income individuals and small businesses in their local communities.

One of the hallmarks of a high-performing organization is that its decision-making is informed by data.

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.

Released in 2012, the US Microenterprise Census Highlights of 2010 include data from 366 microenterprise organizations across the country.

Access key data and extrapolations on the U.S. microenterprise industry in this concise 2 page fact sheet

This fact sheet summarizes the experience of entrepreneurs in 2009 that were surveyed by 21 microenterprise programs in 2010.

This publication offers an array of marketing experiences and some lessons drawn from microenterprise organizations across the country.

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.