BOI Publications

Entrepreneurship development systems are emerging across the country as rural practitioners seek more effective engines for rural revitalization.

The third forum in FIELD’s sustainability series explores how ACEnet (the Appalachian Center for Economic Networks) is using earned income as a strategy to achieve greater sustainability.

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.

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.

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.

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

This forum focuses on social enterprises as a way for microenterprise programs to increase their sustainability.

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.

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

Looks at how microenterprise programs are assisting immigrant entrepreneurs and what funders can do to advance those efforts.