PCV News
Small Business Saturday 2015 Is Fast Approaching
Now in its sixth year, Small Business Saturday serves as the ceremonial kickoff to the holiday shopping season for small businesses across the United States. Each year, shoppers spend tens of billions at small businesses on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The day was also championed by elected officials in all 50 states and Washington D.C., including President […]
Oct 29, 2015 – PCV News • Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Loans • Small Business Resources •
PCV Has Signed The Small Business Borrowers’ Bill Of Rights
Like many of our CDFI colleagues, Pacific Community Ventures is alarmed at the rise of predatory small business lending. Small business owners are struggling through many of the problems we saw in the subprime mortgage and payday lending crises. But there’s a critical difference—predatory small business lending is still young enough that we can slow […]
Oct 29, 2015 – PCV News • Small Business Loans •
PCV’s Loan Fund Is Meeting Its Mission
We started our small business loan fund to meet the needs of small businesses that wanted to grow and create new jobs for working people. But for one reason or another, these small businesses were unable to secure capital from a traditional bank, credit union, or the Small Business Administration (SBA). PCV uses the venture […]
Oct 27, 2015 – PCV News • Small Business Clients And Success Stories • Small Business Loans •
Department of Labor Issues New Guidance on Economically Targeted Investments by Pension Funds
Joint statement from Enterprise Community Partners and Pacific Community Ventures, Co-Sponsors of the Accelerating Impact Investing Initiative (AI3) Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued new guidance on “economically targeted investments” (ETIs) for pension funds. ETIs are a type of impact investment that seeks certain social goals alongside a market-rate financial return. The […]
Oct 23, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News •
SOCAP15 Preview: Six Must-See Sessions
Social entrepreneurs, fund managers, nonprofits, foundation staff, and more will converge in San Francisco next week for SOCAP — one of the leading impact investing conferences in the country. With four days of networking, panels, and other events, SOCAP is an excellent opportunity to learn about the intersection of money and social good and to […]
Sep 28, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News •
Today in Small Business: U.S. Treasury Announces $160M in CDFI Fund Awards
Pacific Community Ventures would like to congratulate all of the CDFIs that have been selected as awardees for the U.S. Treasury’s CDFI Fund. As community partners, funding such as this is essential to increase your investments and impact across our nation’s low-income and economically distressed communities. Congratulations! In celebration of today’s award announcements we’d like to […]
Sep 10, 2015 – PCV News •
PCV Profiled In Bay Area For Sale
Fun news! As part of their great series on local nonprofits doing good work in California, Bay Area For Sale has profiled PCV! Read the article here: Pacific Community Ventures: Empowering Small Businesses to Combat Economic Inequality [custom_headline type=”left” level=”h1″ looks_like=”h2″]About Bay Area For Sale[/custom_headline] BayAreaForSale.com is a full service brokerage firm serving all of […]
Aug 18, 2015 – PCV News •
Introducing PCV’s New President
I am excited to announce that after a comprehensive and methodical executive search process, we have selected Mary Jo Cook as our next President and C.E.O. We are grateful for the wonderful legacy that Beth Sirull leaves behind which includes nearly 4,000 entrepreneurs and small businesses that have created and maintained 25,000 jobs for the […]
Aug 17, 2015 – PCV News •
PCV’s Five Year Impact
The Great Recession destroyed almost 3 million jobs at small businesses, and devastated America’s working people and low-income communities. Pacific Community Ventures has fueled the recovery since the end of the Recession five years ago. We’ve created 1,297 jobs for working people in underserved communities, and empowered 867 companies across 25 states. The small business […]
Jul 21, 2015 – PCV News •
In The News: The State of Small Business Finance
There’s been a lot of public discussion about the state of small business funding, what’s available, and how the times, they are ‘a changing. The U.S. economy is growing, and small businesses are a large part of that. They’ve been the engines of job creation for the past few years as we’ve come out of […]
Jul 21, 2015 – PCV News • Small Business Loans •
The Start Of A New Era At PCV
Over the past five years, Pacific Community Ventures’ impact has grown steadily and the organization is poised to scale nationally and internationally. PCV is at an exciting inflection point with an effective and proven platform now in place on which the organization can build exponentially. After much personal reflection, I have come to the conclusion […]
Jul 21, 2015 – PCV News •
Meet The Companies Donating To Our Event’s Raffle
We want to extend a special thank you to all of our advised and borrower companies who have donated their products and services to be raffled off in support of our annual event on Monday, May 4. Thank you for your generosity! If you haven’t already, you can reserve your seat at our luncheon here. […]