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Investing in Small Business and Big Ideas

Join Our Small Business Support Circle

Through our BusinessAdvising.org platform, Pacific Community Ventures is working to close the advice gap for entrepreneurs of color. The Small Business Support Circle brings together dozens of companies and organizations invested in the success and resilience of small businesses from coast to coast.

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Programs & Services

Too many people struggle to make ends meet because they haven’t been given a fair shake. Pacific Community Ventures empowers small business owners and helps impact investors make investments that create shared prosperity and sustainable communities through a “Good Jobs, Good Business” model. We combine affordable loans with pro-bono advising; impact measurement, evaluation and research; and tools and small grants to create good-quality jobs that address racial and gender wealth gaps.

Small Business
Loans

We provide small business loans to entrepreneurs across California, investing in the people who build businesses and generate jobs in our neighborhoods.

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Small Business
Advising

Our BusinessAdvising.org platform connects small business owners across America with free and confidential expert business advising to help them seize opportunities and overcome challenges.

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Impact Investing
Consulting

We develop impact strategies, design measurement and management systems, and conduct evaluations to help investors make more effective investments.

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Field Building
Research

We provide investors, policymakers, and entrepreneurs with the tools they need to create economic opportunity in underserved communities

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Our Impact

We’re working with entrepreneurs and investors to create higher-quality jobs and more equitable communities. In the last two decades, we’ve impacted the lives of thousands of small business owners who have created and grown tens of thousands of jobs.

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Good Jobs, Good Business

We know business owners like you want to provide really good jobs, but sometimes you’re not sure how to raise wages, add benefits, or engage employees in ways that work or your bottom line. The Good Jobs, Good Business Toolkit gives you the practical tools you need to offer jobs that balance the needs of the business with the needs of your employees.

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Success Story

Tadu Ethiopian Kitchen

Nani and Elias spent over two years working feverishly to grow their 10-table restaurant – with great success. When they had the opportunity to open a second location, banks turned them down, but PCV said yes.

Our small business success

Case Study

Humanity United

Pacific Community Ventures was brought on to help Humanity United develop a social impact measurement and management framework, and a strategy for an impact investing initiative focused on reducing labor exploitation through investments in supply chain solutions.

Our impact consulting in action

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    Resources For COVID-19

    Our team is working hard to help small business owners endure the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are resources for our community, which we’ll continue to update. If you’re a current California small business loan client or small business advising client, contact us here.

    • Click here for financial, tax, and employee health and well-being resources
    • Click here for free remote business advising 
    • Click here for the California Rebuilding Fund
    • Click here for PCV’s fair and affordable loans for California businesses
    • Click here for our guide to create a budget-friendly paid leave program
    • Click here for resources to build small business and employee resilience 
    • Click here to learn about becoming a remote volunteer