Impact Investing
Creating Good Jobs – the Entrepreneur’s Journey
By: Mick Acevedo Loayza, Research Analyst, Pacific Community Ventures What would it look like if jobs at America’s small businesses (the ones who employ almost half of Americans) were not the domain of the “working poor,” but rather “Good Jobs” that supported economic mobility through intergenerational wealth building? Research presented in Pacific Community Ventures’ newly […]
Jul 15, 2024 – Good Jobs • Impact Investing •
Ensuring Historic Federal Climate Investments (GGRF) Work Well for Justice40 and LMI Communities
By: Casey Bell, Chief Impact Officer-Pacific Community Venters The opportunity presented by the EPA’s historic $27 billion in grants for the climate economy through the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) is arriving at a critical moment where the U.S. is facing two inter-related systemic risks: the existential risks presented by the climate crisis, and the […]
Apr 22, 2024 – Blog and News • Climate Justice • Impact Investing •
Investing in Beloved Community: A Playbook for Place-Based Impactful Lending
By: Bulbul Gupta, President & CEO-Pacific Community Ventures; Casey Bell, Chief Impact Officer-Pacific Community Venters; Charles Fisher-Post, Associate Director, Good Jobs Innovation Lab-Pacific Community Ventures Addressing a Legacy of Disparity by Design Racial disparities in wealth and income, also known as the “Black/white wealth gap,” are no coincidence. They exist by design. The damage caused […]
Feb 15, 2024 – Blog and News • Good Jobs • Impact Investing • PCV News •
Five Lessons from the One-Year Anniversary of PCV’s Good Jobs Innovation Lab
By Bulbul Gupta, President & CEO; and Casey Bell, Chief Impact Officer One year ago, Pacific Community Ventures launched its Good Jobs Innovation Lab at the Clinton Global Initiative. We embarked on an ambitious Five Pillar Research Agenda exploring the intersection of restorative capital and business advising for low-income and entrepreneurs of color – with […]
Sep 18, 2023 – Blog and News • Good Jobs • Impact Investing • PCV News •
25 Years of Impact: A CDFI’s Journey from Impact Investing to Impact-First Restorative Capital
Authors: Bud Colligan, Co-Founder, PCV, & Bulbul Gupta, President & CEO, PCV The story of Pacific Community Ventures began with a question in 1998 at the height of the dot.com boom: how can an entrepreneurial haven like Silicon Valley provide monetary and people resources to low income communities to create a more inclusive economy? A […]
Jun 28, 2023 – Blog and News • Impact Investing •
3 Ways PCV Uses Data Analytics to Close the Racial Wealth Gap
Author: Kenneth Kitahata, Manager of Data & Analytics Pacific Community Ventures (PCV) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit impact investor and community development financial institution (CDFI). In 2022, our integrated “loan + advice” model deployed $9M in loans and helped 2000+ BIPOC, women, and other underestimated small business owners create good jobs with dignity, address racial and […]
Jan 11, 2023 – Good Jobs • Impact Investing •
$2.5 Million Investment to Help Minority-Owned Businesses Thrive in Oakland
Pacific Community Ventures (PCV) is working with JPMorgan Chase, The Rockefeller Foundation, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), and several Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) in an initiative to expand the Entrepreneurs of Color Fund (EOCF) program in Oakland. The $2.5 million commitment over two years will support diverse-led small businesses and provide them with opportunities […]
Dec 15, 2022 – Blog and News • Good Jobs • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News •
Mapping the PCV Impact Frontier – How much alpha does it cost to fix the racial and gender wealth gap?
Pacific Community Ventures (PCV) is one of the U.S.’s first impact investing organizations, and a community development financial institution (CDFI) with a mission to eradicate the market failures that create barriers for small business entrepreneurs that perpetuate the racial and gender wealth gap in America. PCV provides restorative loans and culturally-competent business advising to its small business clients, and in 2022 launched its Good Jobs Innovation Lab, which leverages data infrastructure and analytics to surface behavioral economic insights and identify drivers of good jobs creation.
Nov 16, 2022 – Good Jobs • Impact Investing •
Managing Negative Impact
How does impact investing actually make a difference? In the face of a global pandemic, widening inequality, racial justice, and the climate crisis, impact investors and corporate social responsibility teams have been leveraging their capital to tackle some of our biggest problems. From supporting early-stage investments in vaccine developers to providing finance to sustain struggling […]
Feb 23, 2022 – Blog and News • Impact Investing •
Spurring Inclusive Economic Recovery Through Donor-Advised Funds
COVID-19 has drawn attention to systemic racial and economic injustice in the United States of America, yet over this unprecedented year, the racial wealth gap has widened even further. Too many BIPOC-owned small businesses have permanently shut down after being denied or simply not qualifying for sustaining capital and Federal stimulus. Now is the time […]
Oct 25, 2021 – Blog and News • Impact Investing • PCV News •
Growing Michigan’s Good Food Future: An Evaluation of the Michigan Good Food Fund 2015-2019
Below is the foreword written by Capital Impact Partners, as part of the full impact evaluation and report which was conducted by PCV. For more than four decades, Capital Impact Partners—a nonprofit, national Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI)—has provided financing and capacity-building programs to advance racial and economic justice by facilitating access to quality health […]
Oct 05, 2021 – Blog and News • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
California FreshWorks’ Social and Economic Impacts 2018 – 2020
More than one million Californians, many in low-income communities, live without access to grocery stores, or other sources of fresh and healthy food. California produces over half of the country’s fruits and vegetables, yet California faces a food insecurity rate of 23.7 percent. The food insecurity rates for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) […]