Center for Enterprise Development
The Center for Enterprise Development (CFED) promotes ideas, programs, and practices that aim at ensuring that everyone can participate in, contribute to, and benefit from the economy. By combining the traditional processes of a think tank with insight from practitioners, the organization seeks to:
· determine effective ideas, focusing on communities that are excluded from or limited by the mainstream economy;
· research and improve promising ideas by piloting programs and providing funding to create and refine effective strategies;
· disseminate and advocate good ideas to important individuals and organizations in the policymaking process; and
· foster new markets to achieve greater economic influence.
CFED publishes the results of their research, their work with new ideas, their testing of new programs and products, and their advocating effective policies in reports, white papers, and other forms. Their publications fall under four categories: IDAs and Asset-Building; Entrepreneurship and Micro-enterprise; Development Finance, and Economic Development and Business Climate.
Why does FASTEN recommend this resource?
CFED provides a wealth of information for any concerned about those communities hindered or left out of the mainstream economy. CFED works with researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and financial institutions to best boost the economic opportunity of all people.
