BOI – Scale & Sustainability

This forum, the fifth in FIELD’s sustainability series, highlights efforts by Accion New Mexico · Arizona · Colorado · Nevada · Texas to systematically build a corporate culture, as well as capacity, that supports security, quality and growth for the long term.

The fourth forum in FIELD’s sustainability series explores how Opportunity Fund in California is seeking to increase sustainability by emphasizing efficiency as part of a scale-up strategy.

Achieving greater scale has been one of the primary challenges facing the microenterprise industry for more than a decade.

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

An exploration of current research and writing on the issue of sustainability in the microenterprise field.

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.

Explores the various factors that affect an organization’s ability to reach scale and offers recommendations for funders interested in this issue.

Volume six of FIELD’s Best Practice series explores the ways in which “networking” can be supported by microenterprise assistance programs.