Through the years, FIELD has undertaken a wide range of projects, including management of demonstrations designed to uncover best practices; exploring issues of critical importance to the microenterprise field; developing and honing performance management tools; analyzing data on the microenterprise industry, and more. Major projects are listed below:

Citi Aspen Interns Program
Funded by the Citi Foundation, this project gives microenterprise development organizations funding to hire summer interns to collect high-quality client outcomes data.

CDFI Data Project
FIELD, through its MicroTest project, is working with a group of national organizations to create a comprehensive database on the 500-plus Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), including their microenterprise activities.
 
Informal Economy
Working collaboratively with the Institute for Social and Economic Development (ISED) Solutions, FIELD conducted research into the role of microenterprise in the informal economy in the United States. The work focused on three populations: Latinos, African Americans and rural Americans.

Leading Edge Webinars
Funded by Bank of America this is a Webinar series for practitioners, funders and other stakeholders that explores cutting edge issues and practices in the microenterprise industry.

MicroTest
This FIELD-developed management tool helps microenterprise programs gauge and improve their own institutional performance, as well as the outcomes of their clients.
 
Rural Entrepreneurship
FIELD has explored rural entrepreneurship in the U.S. through several projects, including research on the informal economy, and more recently by examining how Entrepreneurship Development Systems can help stimulate small business development in rural America.

Scale Academy
FIELD oversees the Scale Academy for Microenterprise Development, which was created in 2007 to provide training, technical assistance and financing to a set of high-performing microenterprise organizations that are attempting to scale up their operation to serve more clients. Lessons learned will be broadly shared to help the field achieve greater impact and sustainability.

Scaling Business Development Services
FIELD is developing research, collecting resources, and producing webinars to assist microenterprise development organizations scale up their training and technical assistance services to reach increasing numbers of disadvantaged entrepreneurs.

Trendlines
Funded by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, FIELD's TrendLines series analyzes critical issues and trends in the U.S. microenterprise industry, drawing on data from our MicroTest program and other industry data. These analyses are presented through Webinars and Fact Sheets.

University Study
This study explores the strengths and challenges of student-run microenterprise organizations as well as their potential impact on the field in general.