Contact us:

Phone       
773.336.6086

E-mail
ntjn@heartlandalliance.org

Address                        
National Transitional Jobs Network
in c/o Heartland Alliance   
4411 N. Ravenswood         
2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60640                         

Budget Overview for Transitional Jobs Programs
Transitional Work Corporation

Financing Transitional Jobs Programs: A Strategic Guide to Federal funding Sources
David S. Cass | National League of Cities | 2003

Federal Funding Sources for Public Job Creation Initiatives
Clifford M. Johnson and Steve Savner | December 1999

Where the Funds Are: Potential Use of Child Support Funds for Transitional Jobs Programs
Abbey Frank | Center for Law and Social Policy | September 2004

Why Funding for Job Training Matters
Nisha Patel | Center for Law and Social Policy

FIELD, the microenterprise Fund for Innovation, Effectiveness, Learning and Dissemination has created the Funder Guide Series. Each publication in the series offers a brief - four pages or less - look at a specific issue or aspect of microenterprise and pinpoints opportunities for funders. These guides may be valuable tools for microenterprise practitioners as they seek to engage and work with both existing and potential funders.

• FIELD Funder Guide Issue 1 - Fulfilling the Microenterprise Promise: Background for Funders. This guide lays out an array of economic trends that have sparked a growing interest in self-employment and describes how microenterprise development programs are responding.
• FIELD Funder Guide Issue 2 - Microenterprise: Making a Difference.
  This guide examines the microenterprise industry's accomplishments and its value with respect to poverty alleviation, economic development, asset development and ownership, and increased access to financial services.
• FIELD Funder Guide Issue 3 - Moving Forward: Industry Challenges, Funder Opportunities.
  This guide explores the current challenges facing the microenterprise industry, and suggests specific approaches funders can use in their grantmaking to help the industry respond.
• FIELD Funder Guide Issue 4: Performance Counts. This guide lays out what constitutes high performance within the microenterprise field, and discusses how donors can support and provide incentives for high performance among microenterprise programs.