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FIELD – Scale

Staying Connected: Building Entrepreneurial Networks

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

March 1, 2004

Scaling up Microenterprise Services

This 125-page volume summarizes the experience of eight organizations that spent two-years exploring ways to expand the scale of their services and their client base.

May 1, 2002

FIELD Forum Issue 13 – Marketing Strategies for Scale-Up: FIELD’s Grantees Share Their Experiences

How can U.S. microenterprise programs expand their outreach and serve ever-larger numbers of emerging entrepreneurs with business development and financial services?

March 1, 2002

Credit Evaluation Grids for Microenterprise Lenders

This publication details the use of credit evaluation grids, a tool that can dramatically streamline and standardize the process of underwriting microenterprise loans.

February 1, 2002

FIELD Forum Issue 5 – New Grant Cluster Focuses On: Achieving Scale

Eight organizations recently were awarded two-year, $100,000 grants by FIELD to test promising approaches for achieving scale in the microenterprise services they offer.

July 1, 2000