microTracker: Empowering microenterprise and small business development organizations to assess, compare, and improve effectiveness and communicate the value of their work to funders and stakeholders.
Microenterprise Industry Data
Learn who microenterprise programs serve, what products and services they provide, and what it costs to support entrepreneurs.
EntrepreneurTracker
Entrepreneur Outcomes Data
FIELD’s EntrepreneurTracker is the only ongoing, standardized data collection effort that provides credible data on the outcomes of entrepreneurs served by microenterprise and small business development organizations.
Welcome to microTracker.org, the portal to the Aspen Institute Business Ownership Initiative's nationwide database on the scale, effectiveness, and outcomes of US microenterprise development organizations (MDOs). BOI’s microTracker is a set of data tools and services that allow MDOs to self-assess and improve. MicroTracker also provides stakeholders with data about the size, scale, and value of the US microenterprise industry.
MicroTracker includes:
- DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS SERVICES that provide crucial insights and improve MDOs’ ability to collect and understand how to use high-quality, rigorous data.
- STANDARDIZED METRICS that allow users to track MDOs’ program and client outcome metrics over time, and compare and benchmark using data from relevant industry peers, other MDOs in a state, and the industry as a whole.
- A NATIONWIDE DATA SET that draws from MDO-submitted data and provides an overview of their activities, scale, effectiveness, and outcomes.
MicroTracker.org provides a way for microenterprise and small business practitioners, funders, policymakers, and the general public to access and use the data that BOI has collected and analyzed in collaboration with microenterprise organizations.
EntrepreneurTracker
Do you need credible data on the outcomes of your organization’s microenterprise and small business clients to support fundraising and program management?
Do you want to understand how entrepreneurs fare after receiving a loan or business development assistance from a microenterprise or small business development organization?
EntrepreneurTracker is an annual process that offers data collection in a credible, standardized, and affordable manner. MDO entrepreneur outcomes help stakeholders understand key data such as:
- Business start and survival rates
- Jobs created and supported
- Changes in revenue
- Hourly wages paid to workers
- Movement out of poverty
The US Microenterprise Census
Do you want a picture of the US microenterprise industry — in terms of whom it serves, how many it is reaching, and what it costs to provide services?
Do you want to compare your organization’s scale, costs, and effectiveness to those of other microenterprise organizations or the industry as a whole?
The US Microenterprise Census is an online annual survey that collects data on MDOs. The data reported to the Census is a crucial tool that helps stakeholders understand key data such as:
- The number and characteristics of individuals being reached
- Microloan and business development volume
- Program cost and sustainability
- Program size and diversity
Discover how microTracker’s rich data resources can help position your organization.
Join the microTracker community today.