Publications
Unlocking the Potential of Small Businesses: Insights and Recommendations from a Business Advising Case Study
BIPOC-owned small businesses play a crucial role in creating jobs, providing essential services, driving ownership in communities and generating economic growth, yet still face significant challenges accessing capital. CDFIs play a critical role in closing this funding gap. Pacific Community Ventures’ model for deploying restorative capital provides additional support to clients through pre- and post-engagement […]
Feb 27, 2023 – Good Jobs • Publications • Small Business Advising And Mentoring •
$2.5 Million Investment to Help Minority-Owned Businesses Thrive in Oakland
Pacific Community Ventures (PCV) is working with JPMorgan Chase, The Rockefeller Foundation, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), and several Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) in an initiative to expand the Entrepreneurs of Color Fund (EOCF) program in Oakland. The $2.5 million commitment over two years will support diverse-led small businesses and provide them with opportunities […]
Dec 15, 2022 – Good Jobs • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News • Publications •
PCV’s CEO Bulbul Gupta Selected to Serve on the U.S. Treasury Department’s Inaugural Advisory Committee on Racial Equity
25-member committee will advise Secretary, Deputy Secretary on efforts to advance racial equity WASHINGTON – Pacific Community Ventures’ CEO, Bulbul Gupta, has been appointed to serve as a member of the inaugural Department of Treasury Advisory Committee on Racial Equity, announced today by U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen, at an event marking […]
Oct 04, 2022 – Good Jobs • PCV News • Publications •
4 Reasons PCV is Focused on Good Jobs for Small Businesses
Today, Pacific Community Ventures (PCV), one of the first impact investing organizations in the US, announced at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) their commitment to launch the Good Jobs Innovation Lab, to help improve job quality for the 50% of Americans employed at small businesses across the country.
Sep 21, 2022 – Good Jobs • PCV News • Publications •
PCV Announces GOOD JOBS INNOVATION LAB at Clinton Global Initiative
Today, Pacific Community Ventures (PCV), one of the first impact investing organizations in the US, announced at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) their commitment to launch the Good Jobs Innovation Lab, to help improve job quality for the 50% of Americans employed at small businesses across the country.
Sep 19, 2022 – Good Jobs • PCV News • Publications •
Decolonizing Capital For Racial & Economic Justice: Pacific Community Ventures 2021 Social Impact Report
PCV is committed to making sure our entrepreneurs who have historically been left out of the traditional financial system gain access to the capital and resources they need to meet their ambition. PCV was one of America’s first impact investors – and CDFIs like us were created out of the Civil Rights Movement with the purpose of getting capital to low-income and communities of color.
Jun 20, 2022 – PCV News • Publications •
Managing Negative Impact
How does impact investing actually make a difference? In the face of a global pandemic, widening inequality, racial justice, and the climate crisis, impact investors and corporate social responsibility teams have been leveraging their capital to tackle some of our biggest problems. From supporting early-stage investments in vaccine developers to providing finance to sustain struggling […]
Feb 23, 2022 – Impact Investing • Publications •
Spurring Inclusive Economic Recovery Through Donor-Advised Funds
COVID-19 has drawn attention to systemic racial and economic injustice in the United States of America, yet over this unprecedented year, the racial wealth gap has widened even further. Too many BIPOC-owned small businesses have permanently shut down after being denied or simply not qualifying for sustaining capital and Federal stimulus. Now is the time […]
Oct 25, 2021 – Impact Investing • PCV News • Publications •
Growing Michigan’s Good Food Future: An Evaluation of the Michigan Good Food Fund 2015-2019
Below is the foreword written by Capital Impact Partners, as part of the full impact evaluation and report which was conducted by PCV. For more than four decades, Capital Impact Partners—a nonprofit, national Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI)—has provided financing and capacity-building programs to advance racial and economic justice by facilitating access to quality health […]