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Meeting The Moment: 3 Initiatives For Building A Sustainable Community
Access to economic opportunities that can build wealth for a family year in and year out, generation after generation, and a vibrant civic life, is out of reach for many rural and industrial communities. These communities have persistently dealt with climate change, social injustice, and income inequality. And to add insult to injury, the COVID-19 […]
Dec 03, 2020 – Impact Investing •
Announcing The California Rebuilding Fund
California small businesses are drivers of economic growth – creating two-thirds of new jobs and employing nearly half of all private sector employees. California is home to 4.1 million small businesses, representing 99.8 percent of all businesses in the state and employing 7.2 million workers in California, or 48.5 percent of the state’s total workforce. […]
Nov 20, 2020 – PCV News • Small Business Loans •
Meeting The Moment: 3 Ideas to Develop Quality Jobs and a Reliable Workforce
Employers spend time and resources to recruit and train employees, making their employees a vital investment — so retaining employees is priceless. However, keeping all of your employees during an economic fallout is challenging. The unemployment rate abruptly rose to 14.7% in April 2020. At the same time, the pandemic has shown that many small […]
Nov 17, 2020 – Impact Investing •
6 Tips On Getting A Small Business Loans
Business loans can be beneficial to small businesses, when it comes to helping them get a new goal off the ground. Though, the process of obtaining a business loan can be tricky and confusing, since the goal is to provide a small company with financial help to handle its operations. Getting the wrong loan could […]
Nov 16, 2020 – Small Business Resources •
Meeting The Moment: 3 Ways That Federal Policy Can Help Small Business Build Back Better From COVID-19
Small business owners have suffered devastating losses due to the COVID pandemic, forcing many to permanently close, relocate, or quickly pivot their business model or move online. As the culture-keepers of our community and backbone of the U.S. economy who employ nearly 50 percent of the nation’s workforce, small business owners need support. In response […]
Nov 10, 2020 – Impact Investing •
Meeting The Moment: 3 Ways That Impact Investing Policy Can Improve Americans Health, Housing, and Communities
The COVID-19 pandemic’s toll on low-income families, frontline workers, small businesses, and communities of color has laid bare the consequences of income, wealth, and racial inequality in the U.S. Tens of thousands of Americans are contracting the virus daily, millions of workers have lost their jobs, businesses are shutting down, and whole communities are suffering. […]
Nov 02, 2020 – Impact Investing •
Meeting The Moment: U.S. Impact Investing Policy, Inequality, and COVID-19 Recovery
By: Sanjana Seth, Jacqulyn Washington, Tom Woelfel, and Brenna McCallick Pacific Community Ventures (PCV) is excited to announce the release of Meeting the Moment: U.S. Impact Investing Policy, Inequality and COVID-19 Recovery. This discussion paper examines how impact investing policy can be leveraged at the federal level to support the impact investing ecosystem in harnessing […]
Oct 28, 2020 – Good Jobs • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News • Publications •
PCV Announces New Commitment at Clinton Foundation to Close The Business Advising Gap
This week Pacific Community Ventures joined President Bill Clinton as the Clinton Foundation kicked off “Building an Inclusive Recovery,” a Clinton Foundation series to address racial, ethnic, tribal, economic, and health disparities in wake of COVID-19. Featured participants included Ajay Banga, chief executive officer of Mastercard; Mayor Randall Woodfin, Birmingham; Wole C. Coaxum, founder and chief executive officer, […]
Oct 22, 2020 – PCV News • Small Business Advising And Mentoring •
PCV and Other National Small Business Leaders Release Five-Point Plan to Save the Small Business Sector
With Congress at an impasse on a new stimulus package and permanent business closures rising by the day, a group of the country’s leading nonprofit executives, former senior federal officials, and top public policy experts today released “Big Ideas for Small Business,” a five-step plan outlining a path forward for America’s threatened small business sector. […]