PCV News
Mary Jo Cook Profiled On Aspen Institute’s Quality Jobs Fellows
Pacific Community Ventures’ President & CEO Mary Jo Cook has an awesome new profile from the Quality Jobs Fellowship at the Aspen Institute. Mary Jo Cook is our mission-driven leader who’s passionate about using business as a force for good. She believes that amidst widening income and wealth inequality, the decline of jobs that afford […]
Apr 30, 2018 – Good Jobs • PCV News •
Pacific Community Ventures Receives $500,000 from Citi Foundation’s Community Progress Makers Fund
This $500,000 investment in core operating support will enable Pacific Community Ventures to strengthen communities by investing in more small businesses and create good jobs for more working people. The Citi Foundation announced that Pacific Community Ventures was selected as the recipient of a $500,000 grant as part of the 2018 Community Progress Makers Fund. The Fund […]
Apr 26, 2018 – Good Jobs • PCV News •
Announcing The Principles for Investment in Sustainable Wild-Caught Fisheries
Although billions of public and private dollars are invested in fisheries every year, more often than not, sustainability is neither the driver nor the intended outcome of those investment dollars. Pacific Community Ventures is excited to be one of the founding endorsers of the Principles for Investment in Sustainable Wild-Caught Fisheries. These principles will forward the impact- […]
Mar 08, 2018 – Impact Investing • PCV News •
San Francisco Entrepreneurs of Color Fund
Thanks to a new partnership with JP Morgan Chase, San Francisco entrepreneurs of color have a new source of capital: The Entrepreneurs of Color Fund. San Francisco has one of the highest concentrations of small businesses owned by people of color; there are about 46,000 such small businesses in the city. The fund is designed […]
Feb 14, 2018 – PCV News • Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Loans •
New Source Of Capital For Small Business Owners of Color in Contra Costa County
Pacific Community Ventures – a nonprofit small business lender that’s fueled small businesses in San Francisco and Oakland for 20 years – has just announced a new expansion to provide small business owners in Contra Costa County access the funding and business advice they need to grow their businesses, create jobs, and support the local […]
Feb 12, 2018 – PCV News • Small Business Loans •
Reflections On SOCAP 2017
In early October, Pacific Community Ventures had the opportunity to engage with panels at SOCAP in all capacities – as moderators, speakers, and attendees. SOCAP, which celebrated its 10th anniversary this year with a record gathering of 3,000 attendees, is the “largest impact investing capital markets gathering in the world.” As an organization with both […]
Oct 27, 2017 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News •
PCV and Opportunity Fund Have Joined Forces
America’s leading nonprofit small business lender and mentoring platform join forces for Santa Clara County entrepreneurs, supported by $600,000 grant from Google.org Pacific Community Ventures and Opportunity Fund are excited to announce a new collaboration funded by Google.org through a $600,000 grant. Their grant will help 150 small business owners in Santa Clara County […]
Sep 28, 2017 – PCV News • Small Business Advising And Mentoring •
Announcing The Impact Due Diligence Initiative
PCV is excited to announce the launch of the Impact Due Diligence Initiative. This project will identify best practices in impact due diligence, which we’ll build into a free, practical toolkit for investors across sectors – including foundations, faith-based organizations, CDFIs, equity fund managers, institutional investors, and others – seeking to assess the expected social impact of […]
Sep 19, 2017 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News •
We’ve Won A 2017 CDFI Fund Award
Great news! We’re excited to announce that Pacific Community Ventures has been awarded a 2017 CDFI Fund award, to support our programs delivering capital to small businesses across California that create good jobs for working people and build community wealth from the bottom up. In 2016, the small businesses in our lending program grew revenues by […]
Sep 19, 2017 – PCV News • Small Business Loans •
We’ve Been Awarded An Aspen Institute Quality Jobs Fellowship!
We’re thrilled to announce that Pacific Community Ventures and our President and CEO — Mary Jo Cook — were chosen as one of 15 fellows by the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program to more deeply engage in work that expands the availability of better quality jobs in our economy. Americans place a high value on work, and […]
Sep 07, 2017 – Good Jobs • PCV News •
We Need Your Small Business’ Voice
Here at Pacific Community Ventures, we’ve seen firsthand though our work with small businesses that job creation alone is insufficient to create lasting economic change in underserved communities and for working people. We view the advancement of quality jobs as an important avenue to better support underserved communities and address rising income and wealth inequality […]
Jul 24, 2017 – Good Jobs • PCV News • Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Loans •
PCV Reaffirms Our Support For The Small Business Borrower’s Bill of Rights
We work with small business owners who have a dream, but who don’t have big built-in networks or access to enormous sums of capital. For example, the fastest-growing group of Americans starting new ventures is African-American women. But you’d never know that based on where the money is going. Sarah Kersten Studio in Berkeley has […]