Impact Investing
Policy Brief: An Impact Investing Policy Agenda for Growing Employee Ownership to Support COVID-19 Recovery
By: Brenna McCallick, Sanjana Seth, Jacqulyn Washington, and Tom Woelfel PCV is excited to announce the release of a new Policy Brief: An Impact Investing Policy Agenda for Growing Employee Ownership to Support COVID-19 Recovery. With support from the Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing (TPF), PCV conducted in-depth research and interviews with experts from […]
Sep 17, 2021 – Blog and News • Good Jobs • Impact Investing • PCV News •
An Urgent Call to Biden-Harris Administration: Create White House Initiative on Inclusive Economic Growth
Today the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance, B Lab and a coalition of more than 50 impact-oriented organizations are calling for the creation of a White House Initiative on Inclusive Economic Growth to coordinate federal policies that will reshape and rebuild our economy so that it works for all of us. The proposed Initiative’s bold approach […]
Apr 07, 2021 – Impact Investing • PCV News •
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 •
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 •
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 •
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 […]
Nov 10, 2020 – Impact Investing •
Meeting The Moment: 3 Ways That Impact Investing Policy Can Improve Americans Health, Housing, and Communities
The COVID-19 pandemic’s toll on low-income families, frontline workers, small businesses, and communities of color has laid bare the consequences of income, wealth, and racial inequality in the U.S. Tens of thousands of Americans are contracting the virus daily, millions of workers have lost their jobs, businesses are shutting down, and whole communities are suffering. […]
Nov 02, 2020 – Impact Investing •
Meeting The Moment: U.S. Impact Investing Policy, Inequality, and COVID-19 Recovery
By: Sanjana Seth, Jacqulyn Washington, Tom Woelfel, and Brenna McCallick Pacific Community Ventures (PCV) is excited to announce the release of Meeting the Moment: U.S. Impact Investing Policy, Inequality and COVID-19 Recovery. This discussion paper examines how impact investing policy can be leveraged at the federal level to support the impact investing ecosystem in harnessing […]
Oct 28, 2020 – Blog and News • Good Jobs • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News •
PCV Receives A Grant From The Tipping Point Fund to Advance Policy Ideas That Mobilize Private Capital for Public Good
Black and Brown business owners need affordable loans and accessible, free advice. They also need markets to support them at all levels. For centuries, the finance industry has not only been complicit in racist policies like redlining, underinvesting in Black-owned businesses, and profiting off of bad mortgages to Black homeowners, but many fortunes were built out […]
Jul 08, 2020 – Good Jobs • Impact Investing • PCV News •
The Good Jobs Agenda: Pacific Community Ventures 2019 Good Jobs Report
Pacific Community Ventures’ work has never been more crucial to the communities we serve. The coronavirus pandemic wiped out 22 million jobs — 10 years of job growth — in the first four weeks, with an additional 37 million jobs vulnerable to layoffs and tens of millions of small businesses in danger of closing. The […]
Jun 04, 2020 – Blog and News • Good Jobs • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News • Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Loans •
EAEF Inaugural Impact Report
PCV’s Research & Consulting team is proud to have worked on the inaugural impact report of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund (EAEF). This report is the culmination of a year-long effort to analyze EAEF’s developmental impact in Egypt from its inception in 2013 through 2019. The EAEF has supported close to 5,000 jobs, seeded what […]