Impact Consulting
Impact Investor – Video Recap (Part 1)
Here at InSight we’re still sorting through all the incredible conversation from the launch of our new project – The Impact Investor. The launch took place in Oxford, UK before the Skoll World Forum, where over 80 impact investors participated in the dialogue that will inform and shape much of our research. We are undertaking […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
InSight at PCV Launches Global Research Initiative on Impact Investing
Last week at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, InSight, along with CASE at Duke University and ImpactAssests, launched their new global research initiative, “The Impact Investor: People and Practices Delivering Exceptional Financial and Social Returns”. The project, which has attracted generous funding from the Omidyar Network, The Annie E. Casey Foundation and RS Group […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News •
A Note From Our Executive Director…
Okay, it’s been three months since I last contributed to this blog. I have no excuse, but I’ll offer one anyway. When last I wrote, I was heading off to India for three weeks. It was a fascinating trip—a true reminder of the challenges we face when people living in corrugated huts with no windows […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Impact Consulting • PCV News •
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 •
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 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’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 •
5 Reasons Small Businesses Shouldn’t Dump Health Care Benefits
Here’s an interesting article that relates quite well to the research our Insight Team has been working on: Forbes article by Rob Lynch, Contributor That true harbinger of winter is here: open enrollment. As the seasons change, employees will be spending a little extra time in the HR department picking out a health plan for […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Good Jobs • Impact Consulting • Small Business Advising And Mentoring •
PCV’s InSight Team Launches Health Care and Small Business Report in Sacramento
Last Wednesday, October 12th, Pacific Community Ventures’ InSight team travelled to The California Endowment in Sacramento to present the main findings of their health care and small business report. Following the presentation, InSight’s Director, Ben Thornley, facilitated a thoughtful and engaged panel discussion. Esteemed panelists, Terry Gardiner, VP of Policy and Strategy at Small Business […]
Jul 08, 2015 – Impact Consulting •
California Small Businesses More Likely to Offer Health Insurance
PCV Press Release, San Francisco, October 10, 2011 – When informed about key provisions in the national health care law, California’s small businesses are more likely to offer health care coverage to their workers, according to a new report released today by Pacific Community Ventures. The report, Health Care and Small Business: Understanding Health Care […]
Jul 08, 2015 – Impact Consulting •
Impact Investing in California: A Forbes Interview with Ben Thornley of PCV’s InSight
Recently, I interviewed Ben Thornley, Director of InSight – the thought leadership practice in high-impact investing at Pacific Community Ventures (PCV). PCV is a preeminent San Francisco-based Community Development Financial Institution and growth equity manager deploying $60 million in three funds with the aim of creating quality jobs in low-income areas of California. Ben is responsible […]