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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 – Good Jobs • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News • Publications • Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Loans •
How To Access Healthy Food In The Bay Area During COVID-19
While the COVID-19 pandemic is a public health crisis, it is also causing economic ripple effects, particularly for the most vulnerable folks in our community. Food-insecure populations are at high risk as we practice social distancing and enact shelter-in-place. This page is intended to collect resources that can help Bay Area residents access healthy food […]
Mar 25, 2020 – Impact Consulting • Small Business Resources •
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 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • Publications •
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 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • Publications •
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 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News • Publications •
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 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • Publications •
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 […]