Webinars and Podcasts by Topic
FIELD's Webinars and podcasts cover issues of critical interest to practitioners and donors. These include our "Leading Edge" webinar series funded by the Bank of America, and our "Spotlight on Sustainability" series funded by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. Webinars created specifically FOR FUNDERS are also available. Available here FOR PRACTITIONERS are:
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| A long-time challenge facing microenterprise programs is how to reach larger numbers of entrepreneurs efficiently despite the distance to a program office. In order to bridge the distance gap, more and more practitioners are providing distance-based business development services. In “The How-To’s of Distance Based Microenterprise Training”, we share FIELD’s findings and speak to pioneer practitioners of these strategies. | |
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| FIELD’s white paper explores the landscape of for-profit microlenders in the U.S. The webinar provides an overview of the themes and discusses the implications with participating practitioners. | |
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| "Poised for Growth: Scaling Your Microlending Program" FIELD shares critical insights and key lessons drawn from high-performing microlenders engaged in a three-year peer learning experience through its Scale Academy for Microenterprise Development. Throughout the process, the Academy looked deeply at the critical components of building and sustaining a large-scale microlending program to address critical questions, such as: How do product development and pricing contribute to scale? What kinds of market research and marketing strategies have been most successful? What types of changes in organizational structure and staffing are needed to scale a microlending program effectively? This Webinar draws from FIELD's recent publication, Dollars for Dreams: Scaling Microlending in the United States. | |
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| Two Webinars on Job Creation in the Microenterprise Industry look at how programs can adequately track jobs created and sustained as a consequence of their efforts. Innovative strategies that support job creation in the sector are also explored. | |
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| "Current Market Conditions" These two Webinars look at how current market conditions are impacting microlenders. We look at Opportunity Finance Network's market conditions survey and MicroTest data, and see how practitioners are responding to those challenging conditions. | |
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| In our Webinar on capitalization strategies, we look at past and current strategies around capitalization. We offer both practitioner and donor insight into changing trends. | |
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| "Tax Prep Services for Microenterpreneurs" a two-part Webinar sponsored by Bank of America, provides an in-depth exploration of the why and how of providing tax preparation services to microentrepreneurs. It also highlights the efforts of microenterprise programs and free community tax preparation sites to use tax preparation as a tool to help self-employed individuals to access tax credits, learn about their financial position, plan for the long term, and access other asset-building products. | |
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| "Financial Literacy and Credit-Building in Microenterprise" Credit scores have come to play an increasingly important role in determining who can access a range of products (including loans, credit cards, rental property, and telephone service) and the prices they pay for them. While microenterprise development organizations (MDOs) have long been active in the personal finance space, many have begun to expand their work in this area to include a focus on credit building. This webinar will review findings from the literature review and case study of the Latino Economic Development Corporation. | |
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