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Our Small Business Support Circle Is Growing
Pacific Community Ventures is bringing together a rapidly growing coalition of people, companies, and organizations invested in the success and resilience of small businesses across the United States. Members of the PCV Small Business Support Circle are helping to get millions of dollars of free advice into the hands of job-creating small business owners by […]
Feb 02, 2021 – PCV News • Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Resources • Uncategorized •
Essential Needs for Essential Workers in a Just Recovery
Happy New Year, PCV community! As we turn the corner from 2020 into 2021, I am reminded that even in the darkest of times, we need to look for the light. And if we don’t find it, we need to be the light. There’s a vaccine rolling out as we write this, which gives us hope […]
Jan 05, 2021 – PCV News •
Announcing The Small Business Covid-19 Relief Grant Program
California recently announced a $500 million Small Business Covid-19 Relief Grant program for eligible small business owners and nonprofits who have been impacted by COVID-19 and the resulting health and safety restrictions. Grants of up to $25,000 will be given to eligible small businesses to help cover expenses during the pandemic. You can visit the new […]
Dec 29, 2020 – PCV News • Small Business Loans • Small Business Resources •
Meeting The Moment: 3 Approaches to Public Sector Leadership and Coordination
In 2009, the U.S. created the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation. Its mission was to advance opportunity, equality, and justice, and to elevate the impact investing industry. As administrations changed hands in subsequent years, the office was ultimately dismantled, which led to a current lack of specified-issue area knowledge transference within […]
Dec 17, 2020 – Impact Investing •
Meeting The Moment: Policy Landscape for Impact Investing, Market Infrastructure
Market Infrastructure policy can reshape the conditions that guide how private capital works, promote impact investing at a larger scale, and drive more capital toward enterprises with a positive social and environmental impact. In 2011, Pacific Community Ventures released Impact Investing: A Framework for Policy Design and Analysis, mapping the policy environment. With government involvement […]
Dec 11, 2020 – Impact Investing •
How To Safely Reopen Your Small Business After COVID-19
As COVID-19 restrictions are slowly lifted, non-essential businesses are able to resume their operations. However, before reopening your small business, it’s crucial that you take the necessary steps to ensure that your employees and customers will be safe and to reduce their risk to exposure. Here are 7 key factors to consider when reopening your […]
Dec 10, 2020 – Small Business Resources •
Announcing The FOUND/LA Small Business Recovery Fund
COVID-19 has devastated small business communities across the country, hitting hardest in big states and cities like New York, our backyards of San Francisco and Oakland, and FOUND/LA’s hometown of Los Angeles. We know entrepreneurs of color face the greatest challenge, as long-standing issues like inequitable access to access to capital have only been amplified […]
Dec 08, 2020 – PCV News • Small Business Loans •
Meeting The Moment: 3 Initiatives For Building A Sustainable Community
Access to economic opportunities that can build wealth for a family year in and year out, generation after generation, and a vibrant civic life, is out of reach for many rural and industrial communities. These communities have persistently dealt with climate change, social injustice, and income inequality. And to add insult to injury, the COVID-19 […]
Dec 03, 2020 – Impact Investing •
Announcing The California Rebuilding Fund
California small businesses are drivers of economic growth – creating two-thirds of new jobs and employing nearly half of all private sector employees. California is home to 4.1 million small businesses, representing 99.8 percent of all businesses in the state and employing 7.2 million workers in California, or 48.5 percent of the state’s total workforce. […]
Nov 20, 2020 – PCV News • Small Business Loans •
Meeting The Moment: 3 Ideas to Develop Quality Jobs and a Reliable Workforce
Employers spend time and resources to recruit and train employees, making their employees a vital investment — so retaining employees is priceless. However, keeping all of your employees during an economic fallout is challenging. The unemployment rate abruptly rose to 14.7% in April 2020. At the same time, the pandemic has shown that many small […]
Nov 17, 2020 – Impact Investing •
6 Tips On Getting A Small Business Loans
Business loans can be beneficial to small businesses, when it comes to helping them get a new goal off the ground. Though, the process of obtaining a business loan can be tricky and confusing, since the goal is to provide a small company with financial help to handle its operations. Getting the wrong loan could […]
Nov 16, 2020 – Small Business Resources •
Meeting The Moment: 3 Ways That Federal Policy Can Help Small Business Build Back Better From COVID-19
Small business owners have suffered devastating losses due to the COVID pandemic, forcing many to permanently close, relocate, or quickly pivot their business model or move online. As the culture-keepers of our community and backbone of the U.S. economy who employ nearly 50 percent of the nation’s workforce, small business owners need support. In response […]