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Decolonizing Capital For Racial & Economic Justice: Pacific Community Ventures 2021 Social Impact Report
PCV is committed to making sure our entrepreneurs who have historically been left out of the traditional financial system gain access to the capital and resources they need to meet their ambition. PCV was one of America’s first impact investors – and CDFIs like us were created out of the Civil Rights Movement with the purpose of getting capital to low-income and communities of color.
Jun 20, 2022 – Blog and News • PCV News •
Managing Negative Impact
How does impact investing actually make a difference? In the face of a global pandemic, widening inequality, racial justice, and the climate crisis, impact investors and corporate social responsibility teams have been leveraging their capital to tackle some of our biggest problems. From supporting early-stage investments in vaccine developers to providing finance to sustain struggling […]
Feb 23, 2022 – Blog and News • Impact Investing •
Spurring Inclusive Economic Recovery Through Donor-Advised Funds
COVID-19 has drawn attention to systemic racial and economic injustice in the United States of America, yet over this unprecedented year, the racial wealth gap has widened even further. Too many BIPOC-owned small businesses have permanently shut down after being denied or simply not qualifying for sustaining capital and Federal stimulus. Now is the time […]
Oct 25, 2021 – Blog and News • Impact Investing • PCV News •
Growing Michigan’s Good Food Future: An Evaluation of the Michigan Good Food Fund 2015-2019
Below is the foreword written by Capital Impact Partners, as part of the full impact evaluation and report which was conducted by PCV. For more than four decades, Capital Impact Partners—a nonprofit, national Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI)—has provided financing and capacity-building programs to advance racial and economic justice by facilitating access to quality health […]
Oct 05, 2021 – Blog and News • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
California FreshWorks’ Social and Economic Impacts 2018 – 2020
More than one million Californians, many in low-income communities, live without access to grocery stores, or other sources of fresh and healthy food. California produces over half of the country’s fruits and vegetables, yet California faces a food insecurity rate of 23.7 percent. The food insecurity rates for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) […]
Oct 05, 2021 – Blog and News • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Policy Brief: An Impact Investing Policy Agenda for Growing Employee Ownership to Support COVID-19 Recovery
By: Brenna McCallick, Sanjana Seth, Jacqulyn Washington, and Tom Woelfel PCV is excited to announce the release of a new Policy Brief: An Impact Investing Policy Agenda for Growing Employee Ownership to Support COVID-19 Recovery. With support from the Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing (TPF), PCV conducted in-depth research and interviews with experts from […]
Sep 17, 2021 – Blog and News • Good Jobs • Impact Investing • PCV News •
The State of Small Business: PCV’s 2020 Impact Report
Times of crisis force us to dig deep in so many ways, and test us in new ways. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a magnifying glass over structural inequity that is generations’ old, and the fallout threatens yet another generation of businesses owned by entrepreneurs of color. The same entrepreneurs that have always had the […]
Jun 08, 2021 – Blog and News • PCV News •
Meeting The Moment: U.S. Impact Investing Policy, Inequality, and COVID-19 Recovery
By: Sanjana Seth, Jacqulyn Washington, Tom Woelfel, and Brenna McCallick Pacific Community Ventures (PCV) is excited to announce the release of Meeting the Moment: U.S. Impact Investing Policy, Inequality and COVID-19 Recovery. This discussion paper examines how impact investing policy can be leveraged at the federal level to support the impact investing ecosystem in harnessing […]
Oct 28, 2020 – Blog and News • Good Jobs • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News •
PCV and Other National Small Business Leaders Release Five-Point Plan to Save the Small Business Sector
With Congress at an impasse on a new stimulus package and permanent business closures rising by the day, a group of the country’s leading nonprofit executives, former senior federal officials, and top public policy experts today released “Big Ideas for Small Business,” a five-step plan outlining a path forward for America’s threatened small business sector. […]
Oct 20, 2020 – Blog and News • PCV News •
The Good Jobs Agenda: Pacific Community Ventures 2019 Good Jobs Report
Pacific Community Ventures’ work has never been more crucial to the communities we serve. The coronavirus pandemic wiped out 22 million jobs — 10 years of job growth — in the first four weeks, with an additional 37 million jobs vulnerable to layoffs and tens of millions of small businesses in danger of closing. The […]
Jun 04, 2020 – Blog and News • Good Jobs • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News • Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Loans •
EAEF Inaugural Impact Report
PCV’s Research & Consulting team is proud to have worked on the inaugural impact report of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund (EAEF). This report is the culmination of a year-long effort to analyze EAEF’s developmental impact in Egypt from its inception in 2013 through 2019. The EAEF has supported close to 5,000 jobs, seeded what […]
Mar 02, 2020 – Blog and News • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
IRIS+ for Impact Due Diligence
Pacific Community Ventures has worked in partnership with The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) to develop IRIS+ for Impact Due Diligence. IRIS+ provides a solid foundation for investors to integrate impact performance into decision-making across the investment cycle, including the due diligence process. Adopting IRIS+ strengthens the integrity of investment decisions, leading to social, environmental, […]