Pacific Community Ventures

Support the community and build local wealth by shopping at Black-owned businesses today -- and every day. Here's a growing list of almost 300 of Pacific Community Ventures' own #smallbusiness clients all across the country. #SupportBlackOwned #BlackLivesMatter

With uncertainty surrounding recovery for the U.S. economy, the federal government has an opportunity to implement policies that rebuild and strengthen the small business sector, identifying and directing resources to business owners most in need and connecting women, rural, and minority entrepreneurs - those hardest hit by the pandemic - with urgent, low-cost capital. Our latest discussion paper examines how impact investing policy can be used to help private capital address inequality and support COVID-19 recovery efforts in the U.S. #impactinvesting #socialenterprise #smallbiz #supportblackowned #supportblackbusiness https://www.pacificcommunityventures.org//meeting-the-mom/

There are over 2.5 million Veteran-owned businesses in the U.S. What better way to celebrate #VeteransDay than by shopping with Veteran-owned #smallbusiness today -- and every day. We're excited to call almost 100 of them our clients: https://docs.google.com//1wVJuZy8UrzcJMS6exwdyKX1589/edit

Starting next week, join PCV and our friends at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business - UC Berkeley for a complete Business Bootcamp. Join us Wednesday 11/18 at 3:30pm EST / 12:30pm PST for Financial Logistics - Using Cost and Profitability Analysis to Improve Your Profitability. This presentation will focus on how to run a profitability-and cost-analysis on your business and specific products and services. We'll discuss how to use this method to improve your business’s profitability by cutting unnecessary costs and/or increasing revenues. #smallbusiness https://us02web.zoom.us//4516040/WN_a39oOKwFRBSYxtYgUmYCgw

Starting next week, join PCV and our friends at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business for a complete Business Bootcamp. Join us Tuesday 11/17 at 6pm EST / 3pm PSTfor Building Your Ecommerce Platform. The presentation will focus on how to create an ecommerce website from scratch, including choosing the right ecommerce website platform, building your own eCommerce website, and utilizing available features. We'll show real-life examples and talk through pros and cons. https://us02web.zoom.us//3016040/WN_-MtPb09QSwmWm8ZXRKhSLw

To create lasting change, the impact investing community must renew discussions with civil society and government about reforming and enacting new federal policies, rules, and regulations that will increase the flow of private capital toward addressing the fallout from COVID-19. #impactinvesting #smallbusiness https://www.pacificcommunityventures.org//meeting-the-mom/

As part of building back better, the government has an opportunity to address the current crisis and combat long standing inequality by increasing collaboration between the health, community development, and housing sectors. Smart federal policy can unlock additional investment and reduce long-term costs by supporting innovations in affordable housing and healthcare provision rooted in the recognition that housing is foundational to health. #policy #impactinvesting #housing #fairhousing #housingjustice #healthcare #buildbackbetter https://www.pacificcommunityventures.org//meeting-the-mom/

Pacific Community Ventures (PCV)' newest report details the role of policy in impact investing and the opportunity to use it in this moment of crisis is critical to ensuring impact investing delivers meaningful benefits our communities and can serve as a model for a more equitable recovery. This discussion paper examines how impact investing policy can be leveraged at the federal level to support the impact investing ecosystem in harnessing private capital to address inequali...ty and catalyze COVID-19 recovery. We want to shoutout some of the organizations and work that informed and inspired us in this, such as Project Equity for their work on employee ownership, Transform Finance for their research on employee ownership conversions; Harvard University Initiative for Responsible Investment for their work on a just transition; Social Finance for their research on donor advised funds; Enterprise Community Partners for their work on affordable housing; and 1863 Ventures for their work supporting entrepreneurs of color. #goodjobs #qualityjobs #housing #policy #impactinvesting #smallbusiness #socialimpact # #esg #social #socialgood #cdfis #racialequity https://www.pacificcommunityventures.org//meeting-the-mom/

Understanding the role of policy in impact investing and the opportunity to use it in this moment of crisis is critical to ensuring impact investing delivers meaningful benefits our communities and can serve as a model for a more equitable recovery. Pacific Community Ventures 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 private capital to address inequality and catalyze COVID-19 recovery in the U.S. Thank you to The Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing and the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance for supporting this work. #impactinvesting #COVID19 #socialimpact #socialenterprise #smallbusiness #qualityjobs #goodjobs #housingjustice #affordablehousing https://www.pacificcommunityventures.org//meeting-the-mom/ See more

Thank you President Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation for highlighting Pacific Community Ventures' commitment to support 3,000+ #smallbiz owned by BIPOC, women, and immigrants, through our pro bono BusinessAdvising.org platform with partners like Hope Credit Union, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), 1863 Ventures, and Appalachia Community Capital. https://vimeo.com/470275954/43de9981c5

Another amazing profile of a Pacific Community Ventures #smallbusiness client from our friends at CNote: How Vanessa Silva of Culinary Artistas is recreating her recipe for success during a global pandemic https://www.mycnote.com/blog/culinary-artistas/

Join PCV next Tuesday, October 27, at 1pm PST (4pm EST) for the next free webinar in our Ask Me Anything: Expert Office Hours series: Succession Planning with our friends at The Law Offices of Howard J. Finkelstein. It doesn't matter if you want to sell your business or hand your business over to a family member, if you're planning on exiting your business in 2 years or 20 years: If you fail to plan; you are planning to fail! #smallbusiness Take that first step in your plan - RSVP now: https://us02web.zoom.us//6616020/WN_veehoKs-QKuRcq_bu6S4JA

This economic recovery needs to be a #goodjobs recovery, and improving job quality in workforce accountability can help close equity gaps. We're happy to see our work on defining and measuring the creation of quality jobs featured in this new Center for American Progress report.