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Once Upon a Time in Silicon Valley
As we prepare for our 15 Year Anniversary Celebration, we have continually looked back at our beginnings with a sense of appreciation and pride. In 1998, the world was changing – tech companies were popping up left and right, receiving both financial and intellectual capital from venture capital firms and prospering because of it. Our […]
Jul 15, 2015 – PCV News •
Spotlight on Penelope Douglas: PCV Co-Founder and President Emeritus
As part of PCV’s 15th anniversary celebration, we want to recognize and thank our founders and early supporters. In this blog, our focus is on PCV co-founder and President Emeritus, Penelope Douglas. We hope you are as inspired by Penelope as we are and that you will join us to celebrate PCV’s 15th anniversary and […]
Jul 15, 2015 – PCV News • Small Business Clients And Success Stories •
Beth Sirull: Greetings from Down Under!
Greetings from Down Under! I write from Melbourne Australia where I’ve been attending the Global Shifts Social Enterprise Conference at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. I’m here as a guest of the Australian government to speak on a plenary panel with social entrepreneurs from around the globe about trends in social enterprise. I had the […]
Jul 15, 2015 – PCV News •
2012 PCV Holiday Promotions Guide
Check out the 2012 PCV Holiday Promotions Guide for big deals from small businesses!
Jul 15, 2015 – PCV News • Small Business Advising And Mentoring •
SF wants visitors to get out of the tourist traps and into the neighborhoods!
As great as Fisherman’s Wharf is, San Francisco wants to get tourists into other neighborhoods. As part of a program that highlights small businesses located outside of the city’s main tourists spots, the SF Travel Association has chosen 10 new recipients to join the ranks. Now in its third year, the neighborhood partnership grants give […]
Jul 15, 2015 – PCV News •
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 •
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 •
PCV Profiled in First Ever IRIS User Registry
PCV is excited to be one of the first organizations to be listed as a registered user on The Global Impact Investing Network’s Impact Reporting and Investment Standards (IRIS) User Registry. PCV utilizes IRIS metrics – a standard set of metrics that describe social, environmental, and financial performance – to measure the impact of its portfolio […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News •
PCV InSight at SOCAP
PCV InSight is a curator again at the SOCAP conference in San Francisco this year, the world’s largest annual gathering of social entrepreneurs and their supporters. PCV InSight will be joining research partners CASE at Duke University and ImpactAssets to host three sessions on October 3rd related to The Impact Investor – a research project […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Impact Consulting • PCV News •
PCV partners up with WIPP
Today Pacific Community Ventures announces its strategic partnership with Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP)! This partnership will allow WIPP and PCV to strengthen our abilities to advocate for women small business owners and help them grow. WIPP is a national nonpartisan public policy organization advocating on behalf of nearly one million women-owned businesses and representing […]
Jul 14, 2015 – PCV News •
Small Business Lending Program in SF Business Times
Hello PCV network! We’ve been so excited about our new Small Business Advisor Integrated Lending program (SAIL), and it looks like others are getting excited too. The San Francisco Business Times published an article last Friday talking about the new loan program and what we’re hoping to accomplish. You can read on below for the […]
Jul 14, 2015 – PCV News • Small Business Loans •
PCV Awarded Over $900,000!
Great news for PCV! The US Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) announced that it will award $186 million to organizations serving low-income communities and PCV is thrilled to have been one of 18 recipient organizations in California, receiving $953,806. We will be using this award to broaden our services to high-potential, job-generating small businesses […]