Impact Investing
PCV Receives A Grant From The Tipping Point Fund to Advance Policy Ideas That Mobilize Private Capital for Public Good
Black and Brown business owners need affordable loans and accessible, free advice. They also need markets to support them at all levels. For centuries, the finance industry has not only been complicit in racist policies like redlining, underinvesting in Black-owned businesses, and profiting off of bad mortgages to Black homeowners, but many fortunes were built out […]
Jul 08, 2020 – Good Jobs • Impact Investing • PCV News •
The Good Jobs Agenda: Pacific Community Ventures 2019 Good Jobs Report
Pacific Community Ventures’ work has never been more crucial to the communities we serve. The coronavirus pandemic wiped out 22 million jobs — 10 years of job growth — in the first four weeks, with an additional 37 million jobs vulnerable to layoffs and tens of millions of small businesses in danger of closing. The […]
Jun 04, 2020 – Blog and News • Good Jobs • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News • Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Loans •
EAEF Inaugural Impact Report
PCV’s Research & Consulting team is proud to have worked on the inaugural impact report of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund (EAEF). This report is the culmination of a year-long effort to analyze EAEF’s developmental impact in Egypt from its inception in 2013 through 2019. The EAEF has supported close to 5,000 jobs, seeded what […]
Mar 02, 2020 – Blog and News • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
IRIS+ for Impact Due Diligence
Pacific Community Ventures has worked in partnership with The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) to develop IRIS+ for Impact Due Diligence. IRIS+ provides a solid foundation for investors to integrate impact performance into decision-making across the investment cycle, including the due diligence process. Adopting IRIS+ strengthens the integrity of investment decisions, leading to social, environmental, […]
Feb 10, 2020 – Blog and News • Impact Investing •
How CDFIs and Impact Investors Can Walk The Talk On ‘Good Jobs’
At Pacific Community Ventures, we’ve seen firsthand though our work with small businesses and impact investors that job creation alone is insufficient to create lasting economic change in underinvested communities. We view the advancement of good-quality jobs as an important avenue to better support our communities and address rising income and wealth inequality across the […]
Sep 13, 2019 – Good Jobs • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News •
Nuveen Farmland Sustainability Report
Pacific Community Ventures spent much of the summer working with Nuveen, a global investment manager and subsidiary of TIAA, in developing their annual Farmland Sustainability Report. As the world population and global consumption continue to rise at a rapid pace, Nuveen understands that there is an urgent need for more efficient agriculture to meet increasing […]
Sep 11, 2019 – Blog and News • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
The Impact Due Diligence Guide
We’re pleased to announce the release of The Impact Due Diligence Guide. The Guide is a how-to for engaging in impact due diligence and contains actionable advice and guidance for both novices as well as seasoned experts in IMM, covering topics such as building impact-focused due diligence questionnaires and quantitative tools, integrating impact due diligence […]
Jul 03, 2019 – Blog and News • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News •
Impact Due Diligence: Emerging Best Practices
By Daniel Brett We at Pacific Community Ventures are thrilled to announce the publication of Impact Due Diligence: Emerging Best Practices, a report which surfaces the shared impact due diligence approaches employed by leading impact investors. The report examines trends and offers insights in an important, yet underdeveloped, area of investment practice. While impact measurement […]
Jul 02, 2019 – Blog and News • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
What We’ve Learned: Impact Investing Conference Roundup
Pacific Community Ventures’ Research and Consulting team has been busy these past few months attending several conferences across the US – and even one in Paris. We’re pleased to share what we’ve learned from these opportunities to grow our knowledge of trends in the impact investing field, connect with colleagues, and develop new relationships across the industry. […]
Nov 13, 2018 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News •
Everything You Need To Know About Opportunity Zones
At Pacific Community Ventures we look for systemic-change initiatives that empower small business owners, underinvested communities, and the larger ecosystems that serve them. Opportunity Zones are a new tool to empower more capital to flow to underserved communities across America. We’re optimistic about the promise of Opportunity Zones – while staying cognizant of the unintended […]
Sep 19, 2018 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
PCV Contributes To The Navigating Impact Project
We have some exciting news: the new financial inclusion theme of the our partner the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)’s Navigating Impact project is live! Created in consultation with several hundred industry experts, impact investors, and standards setters, the Navigating Impact project provides an on-ramp to setting and streamlining impact strategies. Led by SPTF, this […]
Jul 10, 2018 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News •
Investing For Stronger Communities
The more things change, the more they stay the same. In PCV’s first social impact report from 1999 our founders Bud Colligan and Penelope Douglas wrote, “No one could ask for more business activity than the country has seen in the last eight years, yet lower-income people are not any better off and many communities […]