Our small business loan program provides affordable small business loans to bridge the “missing middle” between startup capital and financing from banks: $10,000–$250,000. Our loans are often used to secure or expand a space, purchase equipment, or to increase inventory to meet demand. We don’t require a minimum credit score, and specialize in working with small business owners who’ve had a hard time accessing capital, like female entrepreneurs, immigrant entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs of color, and borrowers that may have been turned down for SBA or traditional bank loans.

Help a small business create new jobs for working people in their local communities. While experience starting or running your own business is preferred, your expertise and guidance in your field is equally as valuable to many new and emerging small business owners. Either way, our amazing team of Relationship Managers will match you with the right small business that can best benefit from your skills.

Or, connect your entire company with a turnkey solution to offer skills-based employee volunteering to your staff, or mentoring and advising services to your clients. When small businesses thrive, our entire economy thrives.

Pacific Community Ventures believes that by investing in small businesses and making markets work for social good we can create thriving communities where everyone has a fair shake. Our mission is to strengthen small businesses, strengthen communities, and create good jobs and better livelihoods for working people. We achieve our mission through a combination of fair lending, free mentorship, skilled volunteerism, and impact investing consulting services. In the last 20 years, we’ve impacted the lives of thousands of small business owners who have created and grown tens of thousands of jobs. We’ve invested almost $100 million in quality-job-creating companies and influenced a growing pool of tens of billions in impact investment capital in alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.