- January 1, 2016One of the Council’s key areas of research is on women’s access to capital, a continual challenge for women entrepreneurs.…
- January 1, 2016The DBO on Dec. 11, 2015, launched an inquiry into the so-called online, or alternative, lending sector. The inquiry’s objective…
December 31, 2015This Annual Report is a synthesis of the Council’s commitment to supporting women in business by producing best-in-class, actionable research…- November 23, 2015This study examines the financial success, measured by income and net worth, of households headed by military veterans. The study…
May 28, 2015Read FIELD’s new report Microbusinesses, Gainful Jobs. They found that workers value the flexibility, fulfillment, and skill-building opportunities offered by their…
May 27, 2015Best Cities for Minorities: Gauging the Economics of Opportunity By Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox for the Center for Opportunity…- May 1, 2015In collaboration with the SBA Office of Women’s Business Ownership, the Council worked with Carnegie Mellon University to review and…
- March 2, 2015Joyce Klein of Aspen Institute’s FIELD program writes how impact investments can be used to scale microlending. The essay appears in…
January 26, 2015Since 2010, the Federal Reserve has been monitoring small business credit conditions through regional surveys of business owners. In 2014,…
December 17, 2014The Bottom Line: Investing for Impact on Economic Mobility in the U.S. draws on the lessons from market-based approaches to…
