FIELD – Sustainability

FIELD Forum Issue 23 – The Organizational Foundations of 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.

July 1, 2009

FIELD Forum Issue 22 – Increasing Sustainability through Improved Efficiency

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.

May 1, 2009

FIELD Forum Issue 21 – Building Sustainability by Increasing Earned Revenue

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.

October 1, 2008

FIELD Forum Issue 20 – Capital Structure: Getting it Right to Increase 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.

April 1, 2008

FIELD Forum Issue 19 – Blazing a Trail to Sustainability Through Social Enterprise: A Case Example

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

January 1, 2008

Pursuing Sustainability in the Microenterprise Field

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

March 1, 2007