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 […]
Jul 08, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Got Health Insurance?
In March of last year, after much cajoling and arm-twisting, the president signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. OK, so, what now? One intention of the legislation is to expand health coverage to millions of Americans via the small businesses that employ so many of them. You might wonder if there’s […]
Jul 08, 2015 – Impact Consulting •
PCV Inverviews Tides Foundation Founder
Check out this video of PCV’s own Ben Thornley as he interviews Tides Foundation and new member of the Equilibrium Capital Group team, Drummond Pike:
Jul 08, 2015 – Impact Consulting •
PCV Takes to the International Stage… In Bellagio!
A few weeks back, PCV had its debut on the international stage. With funding from The Rockefeller Foundation, PCV’s InSight team hosted a meeting of about 30 policymakers, advocates, and researchers from ten countries – from USA and Canada to Ghana, India and South Africa, quite a bunch! – to talk about the ways that […]