Good Jobs
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 •
How Businesses Grow Through A Good Jobs Strategy
For CDFIs to manifest the intentions set out by Civil Rights leaders to serve both racial and economic justice, we cannot be siloed from one another. We must work together to create lasting systemic change, impactful thought leadership, and transformative policy. While PCV’s day-to-day work centers on our small business clients, our Good Jobs Innovation […]
Mar 24, 2022 – Good Jobs •
Pacific Community Ventures Awards “Good Jobs Grants” To 37 Small Businesses
Pacific Community Ventures has issued $112,500 in “Good Jobs Grants” to 37 California small business owners who worked with the organization to retain their employees and improve job quality even during the last two difficult years. PCV doubled the size of their good jobs rebates this year in order to acknowledge the progress their borrowers […]
Oct 29, 2021 – Good Jobs • PCV News • Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Clients And Success Stories • Small Business Loans •
Policy Brief: An Impact Investing Policy Agenda for Growing Employee Ownership to Support COVID-19 Recovery
By: Brenna McCallick, Sanjana Seth, Jacqulyn Washington, and Tom Woelfel PCV is excited to announce the release of a new Policy Brief: An Impact Investing Policy Agenda for Growing Employee Ownership to Support COVID-19 Recovery. With support from the Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing (TPF), PCV conducted in-depth research and interviews with experts from […]
Sep 17, 2021 – Good Jobs • Impact Investing • PCV News • Publications •
Build Forward Better, Remembering Black History
A new year, and a new administration in Washington, means an opportunity for us to reimagine our country and our economy in ways that truly allow for opportunity and mobility for ALL Americans. In this moment in time, with economic, health, and climate crises that all disproportionately hurt Black and Brown communities, we must recommit to […]
Feb 02, 2021 – Good Jobs • PCV News •
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 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 […]