Our Mission

Pacific Community Ventures is a non-profit community investor that unlocks economic opportunity and climate resilience for small business owners and workers. Through access to affordable capital, pro bono business advising, ethical technology and AI, we partner with entrepreneurs to grow, hire, and prosper.

Our Theory of Change

Since our founding in 1998, Pacific Community Ventures has worked to empower small businesses and help impact-first investors more effectively invest in underserved communities. In 2022, PCV launched the Good Jobs Innovation Lab as an impact research and product development program wrapping around our small business lending and business advising programs to support underestimated small business owners for the creation of high quality jobs in low-income areas. Out of this organizational realignment, PCV launched a new Theory of Change detailing the causal connection between the resources PCV activates through our work supporting entrepreneurs and the impact we aim to achieve through our programs. The Theory of Change further serves as a roadmaps to the Lab’s Research Agenda.

Our Values

We at Pacific Community Ventures try to live our values in our work and in our daily lives. As an organization, our values are:

• We come from a place of yes
• We live our mission
• We are open and transparent
• We seek collaboration
• We act with empathy