Our Mission

PCV is a nonprofit community development investor that supports small business entrepreneurs and their communities to build economic mobility through the power of inclusive entrepreneurship and a good quality job. We work side-by-side with small business leaders through our unique integrated model: combining impact-first Restorative Capital and Pro Bono Business Advising with our Good Jobs Innovation Lab that propels thriving communities with equitable jobs, climate outcomes, uplifts and amplifies their voices and needs through research and policy advocacy.

Our Theory of Change

Since our founding in 1998, Pacific Community Ventures has worked to empower small businesses and help impact-first investors more effectively invest in underserved communities. In 2022, PCV launched the Good Jobs Innovation Lab as an impact research and product development program wrapping around our small business lending and business advising programs to support underestimated small business owners for the creation of high quality jobs in low-income areas. Out of this organizational realignment, PCV launched a new Theory of Change detailing the causal connection between the resources PCV activates through our work supporting entrepreneurs and the impact we aim to achieve through our programs. The Theory of Change further serves as a roadmaps to the Lab’s Research Agenda.

Our Values

We at Pacific Community Ventures try to live our values in our work and in our daily lives. As an organization, our values are:

• We come from a place of yes
• We live our mission
• We are open and transparent
• We seek collaboration
• We act with empathy