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Healthcare and Small Business: Understanding Healthcare Decision Making in California
InSight completed the final study and report, “Health Care and Small Business: Understanding Health Care Decision Making in California” (October 2011), which describes small business owner behavior and decision making processes when offering and purchasing health insurance benefits for their employees. The report details the demographics of small business owners in California, how and why […]
Jul 28, 2015 – Blog and News •
Community Impact Report: Neighborhood National Bank
Measuring impact is becoming increasingly important for Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) in order to evaluate performance and to provide current and potential investors, customers, and other key stakeholders with vital information about their role in community and economic development. In 2011, InSight was commissioned by Neighborhood National Bank (NNB), a nationally recognized CDFI bank, […]
Jul 28, 2015 – Blog and News • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
CalPERS for California 2010: Supporting Economic Opportunity in California
This report uses the geographic characteristics of the companies, properties and projects in which CalPERS invests to describe the breadth of the System’s exposure to California.
Jul 28, 2015 – Blog and News • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
A New Way to Talk About Small Business: The Time Has Come for a Common Language
There is a steady call for policies and programs to help small business lead the charge in hiring more workers and helping to restore prosperity to areas that have been hurt by the recession. To be successful, however, it is time for academics, policymakers, investors, community leaders, and business owners to have a more fruitful […]
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PCV Annual Report 2010: Reinventing Prosperity
This annual report highlights real examples of collaborative problem-solving. Read on to see how, with PCV’s support, companies continue to create economic growth for lower-income communities. Their willingness to work together and work hard for a new prosperity reinforces our optimism.
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Impact Investing: A Framework for Policy Design and Analysis
The Rockefeller Foundation launched its program initiative on impact investing with an important premise in mind: that the resources of government and philanthropy alone are insufficient to address the world’s biggest problems. We have been supporting the development of networks, infrastructure, intermediaries and research designed to accelerate the maturation of an impact investing industry that […]
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Community Equity Capital: The Opportunities and Challenges of Growth
InSight was commissioned by the Annie E. Casey Foundation in 2010 to research and analyze the recent performance of the community development venture capital (CDVC) sector. Our work, which continues in 2011, has resulted in the publication of a report on the challenges of private equity investing in underserved markets and makes recommendations to advance […]
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CalPERS California Initiative 2009 – Creating Opportunities in California’s Underserved Markets
CalPERS and Hamilton Lane engaged Pacific Community Ventures (PCV), a leader in measuring and interpreting community outcomes of private equity investments, to collect, analyze and report on the California Initiative’s ancillary benefits. Beginning with Phase I in 2005, this marks the fifth year PCV has collected and analyzed data from California Initiative portfolio companies.
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PCV Annual Report 2009: Rising Up In Down Times
Pacific Community Ventures’ Business Advising Program engaged over 100 small businesses and deployed over 120 senior volunteer Business Advisors. InSight evaluated the social impact of nearly $1.3 billion in equity investments in small businesses. With funding from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Annie E. Casey Foundation, InSight is also researching and publicizing practices and policies […]
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PCV Annual Report 2008
We are pleased to report that 2008 was successful for Pacific Community Ventures. Despite an economic environment plagued with losses, fear and contraction, we delivered on our goal of helping small businesses achieve new levels of opportunity in underserved communities, just when those communities needed help most. Revenue and employment at our portfolio companies increased […]
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CalPERS CA Initiative 2008 – Creating Opportunities in California’s Underserved Markets
A first of its kind report highlighting the California Public Employees Retirement System’s $17 billion of investments in California. Chapter I of this report provides an examination of the broad ancillary benefits of all CalPERS investments in California, including public equities, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and fixed income. Chapter II of the report provides […]
Jul 28, 2015 – Blog and News • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Creating Economic Opportunity in 2008 – PCV Social Return Summary
In 2008, PCV worked with 105 companies in California. Ten of these companies have received a financial capital investment. Nineteen of these companies are members of Business ADVANCE, PCV’s year-long program that delivers strategic advice and practical business education to entrepreneurs building businesses that contribute to the development of California’s economically underserved areas. The remaining […]