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Reports and Publications

Below are the latest reports and publications from PCV's team.

PCV 2012 Annual Report

  • Date: Apr 29, 2013
  • Program: PCV General
  • Author(s): Pacific Community Ventures
  • Topic: Annual Report
In 2012, PCV supported entrepreneurs who were building businesses and creating jobs in neighborhoods that needed it most. Even as PCV has actively rebuilt local economies...

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Breaking the Binary: Policy Guide to Scaling Social Innovation

Breaking the Binary: Policy Guide to Scaling Social Innovation is intended to add a perspective to the global conversation already under way about how we move beyond binary choices in crafting responses to social, economic, and environmental challenges. Fundamentally, it is about leveraging private enterprise and capital for public benefit. We refer to this as social innovation.

The first section of this report attempts to answer that question, articulating a framework for credible, realistic policy action that governments can take to turn social entrepreneurship into a major force for innovation. The second section of the Policy Guide profiles leading social enterprises in the Schwab Foundation network working in specific domains: education, health, employment, urban development and rural development.

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PCV 15 Year Anniversary Sponsorship Packet

  • Date: Mar 06, 2013
  • Program:
  • Author(s): Amelia Pentecost
  • Topic:
Please see the attached for sponsorship opportunities for PCV's 15 Year Anniversary Celebration on Wednesday, May 22, 2013.

Capital Markets for Impact at Scale

On October 1, 2012, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco co-hosted Capital Markets for Impact at Scale, an event curated by InSight...

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The Impact Investor - A Market Emerges: The Six Dynamics of Impact Investing

  • Date: Sep 25, 2012
  • Program: InSight
  • Author(s): Ben Thornley, Cathy Clark, Jed Emerson
  • Topic: Impact Investing
The Impact Investor is a project to build data-driven and practitioner-guided knowledge for the rapidly growing field of impact investing. It is a partnership between...

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