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Video Highlights – InSight Report Launch Events
To celebrate the launch of their most recent report, Impact at Scale: Policy Innovation for Institutional Investment with Social and Environmental Benefit, InSight at PCV and the Institute of Responsible Investing at Harvard held three events around the country in New York, Washington, DC and Sacramento, CA. All three events demonstrated the growing excitement around […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Impact Consulting •
What Would Impact Investing At Scale Look Like? $20 Trillion for Good
Forbes’ Rahim Kanani interviews PCV’s Ben Thornley: Recently, I interviewed Ben Thornley of InSight and author of a new study on impact investing, which demonstrates that institutional investors, such as pension funds and endowments that invest for social and environmental outcomes are also earning a competitive rate of financial return. Launched a few weeks ago […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Google Announces Free Websites and Training For CA Small Businesses
Last Thursday, Google launched California Get Your Business Online , a program that offers California small businesses free websites and online training. Google is working with small business groups across the state to help drive economic growth by giving California businesses the tools and resources to establish a website, find new customers, and grow their […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring •
Hot Off The Press: InSight Launches New Report
Are Institutional Investors investing in markets that provide social and environmental, as well as financial, impact? According to InSight’s recently released report, Impact at Scale: Policy Innovation for Institutional Investment with Social and Environmental Benefit, Institutional Investors are already making socially and environmentally responsible investments, but a lot more still needs to be done. Read […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Impact Consulting •
PCV’s Beth Sirull at ‘Access to Capital for Women Business Owners’ On 3/8
Women-owned business generate $3 trillion in revenue each year in the U.S., yet gaining access to capital is still one of the major challengesfacing female entrepreneurs. We want to change that. Would you like to secure the financial means to start a new business or grow your existing one? Understanding the Life cycle of Capital […]
Jul 10, 2015 – PCV News •
Friday Fun – A Short Film
This is an awesome short story about 9 small businesses in Detroit. I’m posting this for you, Paul – enjoy!
Jul 10, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring •
NSBA Report: Small Business Climate Improving
The National Small Business Association (NSBA) today released its 2011 Year-End Economic Report which shows a decidedly more positive outlook for America’s small businesses, with important gains in several key indicators. Most notably, more small-business owners report being confident about the future of their businesses than at any time in the last three years, up […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring •
PCV’s Ben Thornley: ‘Now Is The Time To Bring Institutions Into Impact Investing’
Written by Noah Flower on Thursday, January 26th, 2012 Interview: now is the time to bring institutions into impact investing I had the opportunity on Tuesday to sit down with Ben Thornley of Pacific Community Ventures, who has published a series of forward-looking reports on impact investing as head of their InSight program. After a […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
PCV Advised Company, InterSchola, Featured in Today’s San Diego Union Tribune
Five pianos. A snack vending machine. A 1978 Chevy school bus. When the Lemon Grove School District wanted to get rid of outdated equipment that was hogging precious real estate in its storage yard, it took the 21st century approach to a garage sale. It enlisted the help of Interschola, a company that converted district […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring •
PCV’s Ben Thornley: Advancing Social Impact Investments Through Measurement
The Center for Community Development Investments (http://www.frbsf.org/cdinvestments/) at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco has just published a new issue of its journal, the Community Development Investment Review(the Review) – and our own Director of InSight at PCV is a featured author. This issue of the Review centers around the proceedings of the conference […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
“A Man. A Van. A Surprising Business Plan.”
My sincere apologies for leaving you all with a quiet blog for the last week or so. I was out for the holidays (Colorado! A white Christmas!) – and have been digging out of my inbox ever since. But now I’m back. And so is the blog. And together, we’re going to be better than […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring •
A Happy San Francisco New Year, Indeed!
On January 1st, 2012, San Francisco is set to become the first city in US history to set minimum wage over $10/hr. As if I needed another reason to love this city so much! Here’s more from The San Francisco Chronicle: Thanks to a 60% voter approval rate, SF passed Proposition L in 2003. This […]