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Trainers
Elaine Edgcomb and Joyce Klein are the trainers for this webinar. Elaine
Edgcomb is the Director of the Aspen Institute's Microenterprise
Fund for Innovation, Effectiveness, Learning and Dissemination (FIELD).
Joyce Klein is a Senior Consultant to the FIELD program.
Information follows about the Aspen Institute and FIELD;
along with biographies on Elaine Edgcomb and Joyce Klein.
Created in 1998, the microenterprise Fund for Innovation, Effectiveness,
Learning and Dissemination (FIELD) is a program of the Aspen Institute.
FIELD's mission is to identify, develop, and disseminate best
practices in the field of microenterprise, and to publicize the
value of
microenterprise as an anti-poverty intervention.
FIELD has four core functions: grantmaking in key areas of importance
to the
microenterprise field, research into best practices, dissemination
of the
resulting "lessons learned," and informing public policy in support
of
microenterprise.
For more information on the Aspen Institute, visit http://www.aspeninstitute.org
For more information on FIELD, visit http://fieldus.org/index.html
Trainer Biographies:
Elaine Edgcomb is the Director of the Aspen Institute's
microenterprise Fund
for Innovation, Effectiveness, Learning and Dissemination (FIELD).
Previously, she served for 13 years as the founding Executive Director
of
the Small Enterprise Education and Promotion Network, an association
of more
than 40 U.S. and Canadian nonprofit organizations that support small
business and microenterprise development in the developing world.
As a
consultant to the Aspen Institute's Self-Employment Learning Project,
she
had principal responsibility for guiding the project's case study
research
on organizational strategies and issues in U.S. microenterprise.
Over a
ten-year tenure with Catholic Relief Services, Ms. Edgcomb also
directed the
planning and evaluation of socioeconomic development and relief
programs in
13 countries in Central America and the Caribbean. With over 25
years in
international development, she has experience in monitoring and
evaluating
microenterprise programs, training management staff, and in developing
practitioner-oriented materials to support program implementation.
She is
the author and editor of works on evaluation practice, institutional
development, financial analysis, and on microenterprise strategies
implemented both internationally and in the United States. Ms. Edgcomb
holds
a Master's Degree in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University
and a
B.A. in History and Spanish from Seton Hall University.
Joyce Klein is a Senior Consultant to the FIELD program of the Aspen Institute. Ms. Klein has over 15 years of experience in studying and supporting microenterprise and entrepreneurial development programs in the United States. Ms. Klein’s work for FIELD has included research into the issues of scale and sustainability within the microenterprise field. She also managed FIELD’s Welfare-to-Work Learning Evaluation, a five-year effort to evaluate ten demonstration programs funded by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation to provide microenterprise services to TANF recipients, and provides assistance to the MicroTest project. As an independent consultant, Ms. Klein has also provided assistance to the CDFI Fund and the Corporation for Enterprise Development. Ms. Klein holds a masters degree in public policy from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.A. in economics from Boston College.
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