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At the Five Year Mark: Outcomes Reported by US Microenterprise Clients
(March 2010)
This special report funded by the Citi Foundation explores outcomes reported by clients five years after engaging with a microenterprise program. Key questions are explored using MicroTest client outcomes survey data such as "what are business start and survival rates?" "How do business revenues and owner's draw change over time" and "what type of employment is being generated?" The report also includes a section on implications for practitioners.
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Microenterprises and Employment: 2008 MicroTest Outcomes
(February 2010)
Issue five in the MicroTest Outcomes fact sheet series delves into employment generated by microenterprises and is based on client outcomes surveys conducted by MicroTest members in 2008. This report examines employment generated for business owners as well as additional paid workers. New jobs as well as net jobs figures are reported, and factors affecting employment are explored, including business industry and part-time and full-time business operation.
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Business Growth: 2008 MicroTest Outcomes
(January 2010)
Issue four in the MicroTest Outcomes fact sheet series delves into the growth of business revenues based on client outcomes surveys conducted by MicroTest members in 2008. This report examines factors affecting business revenues, including business industry and part-time and full-time business operation.
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Business Start and Survivability: 2008 MicroTest Outcomes.
(August 2009)
Issue three in the MicroTest Outcomes fact sheet series delves into business start and survival rates based on client outcomes surveys conducted by MicroTest members in 2008. This report examines factors affecting business start rates and explores the sectors, revenues and part-time and full-time status of surviving businesses.
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Microentrepreneurs and their Businesses: 2008 MicroTest Outcomes. (March 2009)
The second in a series of fact sheets drawn from client outcomes surveys, this 4-page report highlights key findings from client outcomes surveys conducted by MicroTest members in 2008. This report summarizes data such as business start and survivability, business growth, job creation and retention,business contribution to the household and health insurance. Future issues will explore each of these topics in-depth.
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2007 MicroTest Outcomes: A Summary of Microentrepreneurs and their Businesses. (February 2009)
The first in a series of fact sheets drawn from client outcomes surveys, this concise report highlights findings from client outcomes surveys conducted by MicroTest members in 2007. This issue explores key data such as business start and survivability, business growth, job creation and retention, business contribution to the household and health insurance.
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Findings from the Field: Results from the 2007 Client Outcomes Data Collection (May 2008)
This powerpoint, based upon a presentation given at the AEO Conference in Anaheim, CA in 2008, provides an overview of the outcomes experienced by nearly 1,800 clients of microenterprise development programs across the United States.
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Monitoring
Client Outcomes: A Report from MicroTest's 2004 Data Collection
(November 2005)
This publication describes a variety of business and household
outcomes for 813 clients who received a significant level of
services from a microenterprise development program. Staff of
the 17 programs involved in the project surveyed clients, at
least one year after services were provided, in person or by
phone using established protocols and a MicroTest Outcomes survey
tool. Results were then analyzed and aggregated by MicroTest
staff for this publication. |
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Management Information Systems |
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MIS
for Microenterprise: A Practical Approach to Managing Information
Successfully by Charles Waterfield
(Published: September 2002)
Written for microenterprise program staff and management, this
190-page manual is an accessible, thorough and practical guide
containing the steps and processes that can be used to build
an effective Management Information Systems (MIS). This publication
is the culmination of a two-year project by FIELD designed to
increase the capacity of program managers to improve their MIS.
This manual describes the essential parts of an effective MIS
and their relationship to each other, the organizational factors
that influence how an MIS should be designed and managed, how
to define information needs and assess the appropriateness of
available software to meet them, and how to implement and use
an effective MIS. |
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2002
FIELD MIS Software Review (Published:
September 2002)
This Software Review is a companion document to the MIS
for Microenterprise manual and an outgrowth of the Findings
Report first published by FIELD in 2001. It contains detailed
reviews of 11 major commercial software products designed for
use in the microenterprise field, applying the evaluative approach
described in the MIS for Microenterprise manual. It was
written to both clarify information needs and serve as a "consumers
report," analyzing currently available systems so that
practitioners can make more informed decisions about which MIS
products to consider purchasing, including how to assess them
in relation to particular information needs. The software review
is expected to be updated periodically to reflect changes in
the software available for the field. |
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Providing Capital, Building Communities, Creating Impact: FY2008 Data, Eighth Edition
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complete report
The latest report from the CDFI Data Project, documents the work of 495 community development finance institutions (CDFIs) investing $5.53 billion in new financing activity in Fiscal Year 2008, an investment linked to 35,624 jobs and 60,205 units of affordable housing. The report, based upon the most recent data set of CDFI activity, combines text, numerous charts and tables, and case studies profiling the successes of borrowers. A supplemental section, authored by FIELD, presents data on 100 CDFIs that engage in microenterprise lending. Download supplemental insert |
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Providing Capital, Building Communities, Creating Impact: FY2007 Data, Seventh Edition
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complete report
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. The report, based upon the most recent data set of CDFI activity, combines text, numerous charts and tables, and case studies profiling the successes of borrowers. A supplemental section, authored by FIELD, presents data on 122 CDFIs that engage in microenterprise lending. Download supplemental insert |
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Providing Capital, Building Communities, Creating Impact: FY2006 Data, Sixth Edition
Download
complete report
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. The report, based upon the most recent data set of CDFI activity, combines text, numerous charts and tables, and case studies profiling the successes of borrowers. A supplemental section, authored by FIELD, presents data on 122 CDFIs that engage in microenterprise lending. Download supplemental insert |
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Providing Capital, Building Communities, Creating Impact: FY2005 Data, Fifth Edition
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complete report
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. The report, based upon the most recent data set of CDFI activity, combines text, numerous charts and tables, and case studies profiling the successes of borrowers. A supplemental section, authored by FIELD, presents data on 106 CDFIs that engage in microenterprise lending. Download supplemental insert |
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Providing
Capital, Building Communities, Creating Impact
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complete report
This publication, a product of the CDFI Data Project, documents the work of 517 community development finance institutions (CDFIs) investing $3.5 billion in Fiscal Year 2004, an investment linked to 28,000 jobs and 43,000 units of affordable housing. The report, based upon the largest data set of CDFI activity, combines text, numerous charts and tables, and case studies profiling the successes of borrowers. A supplemental section, authored by FIELD, presents data on 113 CDFIs that engage in microenterprise lending. Download supplemental insert |
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Providing
Capital, Building Communities, Creating Impact (June
2004)
This report, a product of the CDFI Data Project (CDP), presents
fiscal year 2002 data collected from 442 CDFIs. The report provides
a comprehensive overview of the entire CDFI industry; an in-depth
discussion of its four institutional types—community development
banks, community development credit unions, community development
loan funds and community development venture capital funds;
a section on microenterprise financing, and a discussion of
some of the opportunities and challenges the industry faces. |
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CDFI
paper (July 2003)
This report, a product of the CDFI Data Project (CDP), presents
fiscal year 2001 data collected from 512 CDFIs. Intended as
a snapshot of a diverse, dynamic sector, the report presents
an overview of the CDFI industry; outlines the specific services
CDFIs offer; explains the impact they can have on a community;
and touches on the key trends, opportunities and challenges
facing CDFIs on the road ahead. The goal of the CDP is to provide
data that will help build the CDFI field. |
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Microenterprise
Support within Community Development Financial Institutions
(CDFIs) (Published: January 2003)
This free report describes the scale and significance of microenterprise
lending within the CDFI industry. Key findings include that
microenterprise lending is a small portion of CDFI industry
activity; that only 20% of the participating CDFIs have more
than 10% of their loans to the microenterprise sector; and that
microenterprise lending tends to be done predominatantly by
specialist organizations structured as non-profit loan funds.
This report is the first from FIELD to systematically document
microenterprise support in the CDFI industry, based on data
collected under the national CDFI Data Project. |
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This introductory PowerPoint provides guidance in using MicroTest performance data and in thinking about metrics and how to understand them.
 FY2008 Performance Data Reports (April 2010)
What are we learning about microenterprise programs and their performance? The following set of datasheets illustrates key findings from the FY2008 program performance data collection effort.
FY2008 Program Performance Data Overview (pdf)
Target Groups (pdf)
Scale (pdf)
Credit Measures (pdf)
Training and Technical Assistance (pdf)
Costs and Efficiencies (pdf)
Sustainability (pdf)
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MicroTest FY07 Performance Data Reports (March 2009)
The following set of PowerPoint presentations illustrates key findings from the FY2007 program performance data collection effort, with graphics accompanied by text in the notes section.
Performance Benchmarking (pdf)
Reaching Target Groups (pdf)
Program Scale (pdf)
Analysis of Training Program Data (pdf)
Analysis of Lending Program Data (pdf)
Funding and Sustainability (pdf) |
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MicroTest FY06 Performance Data Reports
A set of PowerPoints illustrating key findings from the FY06 data collection effort, with graphics accompanied by text in the notes section.
Reaching Target Groups (pdf)
Program Scale (pdf)
Performance Benchmarking (pdf)
Analysis of Training Program Data (pdf)
Analysis of Lending Program Data (pdf)
Funding and Sustainability (pdf) |
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MicroTest FY05 Performance Data Reports
A set of PowerPoints illustrating key findings from the FY05 data collection effort, with graphics accompanied by text in the notes section.
Reaching Target Groups (pdf)
Program Scale (pdf)
Performance Benchmarking (pdf)
Analysis of Training Program Data (pdf)
Analysis of Lending Program Data (pdf)
Funding and Sustainability (pdf) |
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MicroTest
FY2002 Program Performance PowerPoint (April 2004)
This PowerPoint clearly describes the fundamentals of MicroTest
and provides a graphic overview of the latest MicroTest program
performance data. The PowerPoint draws on extensive analysis
of the FY2002 final performance data, as well as three years
of trend data. Using graphics, key findings from the data are
highlighted. |
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MicroTest
FY2002 Program Performance Data Highlights (April 2004)
This succinct two-page report provides
a helpful overview to the final FY2002 MicroTest data on microenterprise
program performance. Find out who MicroTest programs serve,
how large and effective MicroTest programs are, as well as how
programs fare over time. Key findings are accompanied by illustrations. |
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A
Measure of the Microenterprise Industry (Published:
March 2003)
This second annual report from MicroTest draws on three years
of microenterprise performance data to describe trends in the
industry. Based on a larger and more diverse group of programs
than the sample used in the earlier For Good Measure,
this publication provides an in-depth analysis of top performance
in the microenterprise development field. |
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For
Good Measure (Published: August
2002)
This publication was the first of what is expected to be annual
reports analyzing performance data on MicroTest member programs.
The report examines what best performance looks like, follows
trends contained in the MicroTest data and provides the data
in a format that allows microenterprise programs to compare
their performance to their peers and the MicroTest group as
a whole. |
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"Performance
Measures for Microenterprise in the United States"
Journal of Microfinance, Vol. 3, No. 1; Spring 2001
Read the abstract or order a back issue of "Performance
Measures for Microenterprise in the United States" by Jerry
Black and Karen Doyle. The article advocates for the adoption
of the MicroTest performance measurement framework by U.S. microenterprise
development programs. |
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