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January CEO Note: Essential Needs for Essential Workers in a Just Recovery

Happy New Year, PCV community!  As we turn the corner from 2020 into 2021, I am reminded that even in the darkest of times, we need to look for the light. And if we don’t find it, we need to be the light. There’s a vaccine rolling out as we write this, which gives us hope […]

Jan 05, 2021 – PCV News •

Announcing The Small Business Covid-19 Relief Grant Program

California recently announced a $500 million Small Business Covid-19 Relief Grant program for eligible small business owners and nonprofits who have been impacted by COVID-19 and the resulting health and safety restrictions. Grants of up to $25,000 will be given to eligible small businesses to help cover expenses during the pandemic.  You can visit the new […]

Dec 29, 2020 – PCV News • Small Business Loans • Small Business Resources •

Announcing The FOUND/LA Small Business Recovery Fund

COVID-19 has devastated small business communities across the country, hitting hardest in big states and cities like New York, our backyards of San Francisco and Oakland, and FOUND/LA’s hometown of Los Angeles. We know entrepreneurs of color face the greatest challenge, as long-standing issues like inequitable access to access to capital have only been amplified […]

Dec 08, 2020 – PCV News • Small Business Loans •

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: 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. […]

Oct 20, 2020 – PCV News • Publications •

October Note From Our CEO: Hope in Hard Times

Good morning, PCV community, This week marks my first full year as CEO of Pacific Community Ventures, and what an experience this has been. It has driven home for me the essential nature of our work and our Good Jobs, Good Business model: providing affordable access to capital and free advising for entrepreneurs who have long […]

Oct 07, 2020 – PCV News •

Announcing PCV’s Small Business Support Circle

Labor Day marks six months since the COVID pandemic began in March. In that time it’s estimated over 100,000 small businesses have closed forever, and close to one million more are at risk across the country. The Federal response to COVID has fallen despairingly short for small businesses, and despite the (flawed) Paycheck Protection Program, […]

Sep 07, 2020 – PCV News • Small Business Advising And Mentoring •

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