We're excited to announce that Pacific Community Ventures has just been awarded $500,000 from Wells Fargo as part of its Diverse Community Capital program, which offers capital and technical assistance to minority-owned small businesses through Community Development Financial …
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Coming Soon: The Impact Due Diligence Guide
As the impact investing industry has matured rapidly in recent years, the field is increasingly recognizing the need for commonly accepted approaches to defining, measuring and managing impact. Still, there is more work to be done to effectively manage for impact alongside financial risk and return. …
Investing In Small Business and Big Ideas: Pacific Community Ventures 2018 Social Impact
Too many people are struggling to make ends meet because they haven’t been given a fair chance. In 2018 the unemployment rate dropped to a 17-year low, yet almost half of American workers are stuck in low-wage jobs; the number of new small businesses is at rock bottom; and race or where you’re born …
PCV President and CEO Mary Jo Cook Recognized Among “Most Influential Women in Business”
What makes this woman an influential leader? Since joining Pacific Community Ventures as President & CEO in fall of 2015, Mary Jo Cook has blended "head and heart” behind an expansive mission to invest in small businesses, create good jobs for working people, and make markets work for social …
Our Theory of Change
Pacific Community Ventures has been driven to create good jobs, empower small businesses, and help impact investors more effectively invest in underserved communities since our founding in 1998. We've invested close to $100 million of capital and pro bono advising hours in quality-job-creating …
Announcing The Wisdom Fund to Close The Lending Gap for Women
Women are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S. Yet less than 5 percent of small business lending—only $1 in $23—goes to women. Pacific Community Venture and other CDFIs are joining with CNote to fix this disparity with the Wisdom Fund, a new impact investment opportunity launching …
Good Jobs, Good Business
If you glance at official numbers in the news, the economy appears to be doing just fine. Unemployment is down, and household incomes are up relative to the recession years. Working Americans know a very different reality. More than one-fifth of adults are behind on their bills, more than one-fourth …
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 …
Create A Good Job This Holiday Season
#GivingTuesday 2018 is happening on November 27th — and we need your support! This holiday season, most of us are focused on family, friends, gifts, and great food. We’re celebrating our health and what’s good in our lives – and a good job is often key to many of the things we’re thankful …