This week’s spotlight features Isaiah Goodman! Isaiah started his career as a financial representative at Northwestern Mutual. Although Isaiah’s time there was fruitful, he felt limited with the services and offerings that he was able to provide his clients. Isaiah decided to start his own financial …
Small Business Clients And Success Stories
Meet Our Latest Borrower: Javi’s Parrilla
Javi Sandes was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he started cooking at a young age to help his mother prepare large meals for the family. He helped run a small food business in Argentina before moving to the United States ten years ago to play soccer. His soccer career was sidelined …
Small Business Advisor Spotlight: Dale Klein
Dale is a Corporate Communication & Speech Specialist and owner of Profitable Speech, LLC. Dale found Pacific Community Ventures when searching for an opportunity to volunteer her skills to benefit a small business owner in need. We first paired Dale with Maicher Her, the owner of Maicher …
Meet Our Latest Borrower: Progeny Coffee
We first met Maria Palacio, a 5th generation Columbian coffee farmer, in December 2017 at the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco. Maria founded and leads Progeny Coffee, LLC, a wholesale coffee company that works exclusively with Columbian coffee farmers. Columbia is synonymous with coffee, but …
Meet Our Latest Borrower: Paniagua Construction
Paniagua Construction is a construction company located in San Francisco, CA. Established almost 25 years ago, Eduardo Paniagua and Elena Asturias started the business to offer design, building, and project management services all-in-one to clients in San Francisco. They came to their business with …
Small Business Owner Spotlight: Natasha Miller
Meet Natasha Miller, the owner of Entire Productions. Natasha approached the BusinessAdvising.org program because she needed help getting her financials in order, and for some guidance with HR-related challenges like preparing her employees for development and growth. We paired …
Featured Advisor: Sherri Beasley
This week's featured volunteer advisor is Sherri Beasley, Director of Strategic Planning and Business Development at Children’s Health in Tennessee. She's been an allstar advisor with 3 partnerships since she joined the Pacific Community Ventures family back in July of 2015. We recently matched …
Advisor Spotlight: Jenna Cafiero
This week we're pleased to feature our stellar advisor, Jenna Cafiero! Jenna is a Program Manager at Google and is advising Brian Wallace of Endorfin Foods, a small chocolate production company in Berkeley, California, focused on highlighting the beauty and taste of the cacao bean. Brian came to …
Business Owner Spotlight: June Dillinger
This week’s small business owner spotlight features June Dillinger, the owner of I Do Hawaiian Weddings. June joined the Pacific Community Ventures Small Business Advising family back in January when she needed advice on how to better budget. We paired June with Maricar Apuya, a professor in …