Impact Consulting
PCV InSight helps kick off G8 Summit
As you all know from this blog post, PCV InSight is our research and policy arm here at Pacific Community Ventures. Their work focuses heavily on impact investing, a field that is seeing a “surge of interest” according to PCV InSight Director Ben Thornley in his latest Huffington Post blog. There is so much interest, […]
Jul 15, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
What Does PCV InSight Do?
One of the most unique programs at PCV is PCV InSight. However, it can be rather tricky to explain to someone who isn’t familiar with the space. Let me break it down for you. Even early on, Bud and Penelope realized the importance of tracking our work and analyzing the impact that it had on […]
Jul 15, 2015 – Impact Consulting •
Launching a Framework for Government Action
Today we are thrilled to announce the global launch of Breaking the Binary: Policy Guide to Scaling Social Innovation, a collaborative effort of InSight at Pacific Community Ventures, the Initiative for Responsible Investment at Harvard University, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship/World Economic Forum, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation. Breaking the Binary is the culmination […]
Jul 15, 2015 – Impact Consulting •
Big Government. Big Impact. Big Data. Big Lessons.
One of the great, unsung heroes of impact investing is the U.S. Small Business Administration and its Small Business Investment Company program (SBIC). That’s right — a government agency. Since 1958, the SBIC program has been providing publicly-guaranteed leverage to privately-owned and managed investment funds for the purpose of capitalizing small businesses, defined broadly as […]
Jul 15, 2015 – Impact Consulting •
Event Recap: Impact Investors Help Identify New Paths to Transit-Oriented Development
This post is written by Brenna McCallick, Project Coordinator on the PCV InSight team. Given the culture of learning at Pacific Community Ventures, it was fitting that I marked my one month anniversary here by attending a policy briefing at the San Francisco Federal Reserve. The topic of the day was “New Paths to Housing […]
Jul 15, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
The Facts on U.S. Social Enterprise
Ben Thornley shares some recent findings from the Great Social Enterprise Census and discusses the need for data on social enterprise in the United States. Read his article below. Social enterprises in the U.S. are small on average, by revenue and number of employees, an even mix of for-profits and non-profits and are scattered throughout […]
Jul 15, 2015 – Impact Consulting •
The Impact Investing Grounds Are Shifting
In his most recent article in the Huffington Post, PCV’s Ben Thornley outlines significant developments in impact investing by key players in the field. Read the full article below: Some notable stirrings in and around impact investing, at two of the flagship players in mainstream capital markets, are likely to have significant consequences but have […]
Jul 15, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
The Impact Investor at SOCAP12
This week at SOCAP12 InSight, CASE at Duke University and ImpactAssets launched A Market Emerges: The Six Dynamics of Impact Investing, the second report for The Impact Investor project. As part of the launch the research team curated several panels exploring findings and highlights from the report. Below are recaps from the first two sessions, […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
PCV to Curate SF Federal Reserve Oct 1st Event – Capital Markets for Impact at Scale
This coming Monday, October 1st, a PCV and Equilibrium Capital curated event, Capital Markets for Impact at Scale (#impactatscale), will convene the field’s foremost experts to discuss the roles that policy, mainstream capital markets, and innovation play in building scale in impact investing. The event, co-hosted by the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank and Rockefeller […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Impact Consulting • PCV News •
Six Dynamics Describe How Impact Investing Is Unique
In his recent article in the Huffington Post, PCV’s Ben Thornley, with Cathy Clark, and Jed Emerson provide an overview of the latest report from the Impact Investor project, A Market Emerges: The Six Dynamics of Impact Investing. Read the full article below. With Cathy Clark, CASE at Duke, and Jed Emerson, ImpactAssets As dozens […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
PCV Launches The Great Social Enterprise Census
Today we are pleased to announce the launch of The Great Social Enterprise Census. The Great Social Enterprise Census is a 60 second survey of social enterprises that seeks to clarify the size, structure, and geographic diversity of the social enterprise sector in the United States. For this effort PCV has partnered with some of […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Impact Consulting • PCV News •
Data: The Missing Piece in the Social Enterprise Puzzle
In his recent article in the Huffington Post, PCV’s Ben Thornley explains how data is the missing the piece to the social enterprise puzzle and how PCV plans to address this need. Read the full article below. This article ends with a brazen appeal. Forgive me for starting with one also. Please visit www.socialenterprisecensus.org and […]