Transcending Politics: 5 Ways Congress Can Use Existing Policies and Programs To Create Millions of Good Jobs for Working People
The Surdna Foundation and Pacific Community Ventures announce a new report on common-sense changes to existing federal policies and programs that Congress can adjust or expand to create more economic opportunity and more middle-class jobs in communities that have been left behind by globalization, automation, or generations of discrimination. - May 06, 2017
Pacific Community Ventures and Aspen Institute to Create Quality Jobs at Retail Small Businesses
Pacific Community Ventures will participate in Reimagine Retail to investigate strategies for collaborating with employers on job quality and worker advancement. - April 29, 2017
Nonprofit Provides California Small Businesses with an Alternative to Predatory Lenders
PCV, a Bay Area nonprofit with two decades of experience investing in California’s small business community, is aiming to combat predatory online lending by offering microloans to small businesses that have been turned down by banks or the Small Business Administration. - September 16, 2016
Surdna Foundation, Pacific Community Ventures, and OFN to Discuss CDFI Industry’s Efforts to Create Quality Jobs
The Surdna Foundation, Pacific Community Ventures, and Opportunity Finance Network will be convening a discussion of CDFI small business lenders at the Opportunity Finance Network Small Business Finance Forum on June 9th in Chicago to share approaches and identify collective steps for the CDFI... - May 23, 2016
Joining Pacific Communities Ventures for Lunch is an Investment in Quality Jobs
While our economy has improved on paper, most of us know that isn’t the whole story. Since the end of the Great Recession, 11.3 million jobs have been created but average wages have dropped 23 percent. The strongest growth has been in low-wage work, at places like strip malls and fast-food... - February 18, 2016
Diverse Businesses Win Super Bowl with Pacific Communities Ventures and Business Connect
Pacific Community Ventures, a member of the Opportunity Finance Network, has teamed up with the Super Bowl 50 Host Committee as part of the Business Connect Playbook for Success program. - February 04, 2016
Joint Statement on the Department of Labor’s New Guidance on Economically Targeted Investments by Pension Funds
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued new guidance on “economically targeted investments” (ETIs) for pension funds. As co-sponsors of the Accelerating Impact Investing Initiative (AI3), Pacific Community Ventures commends the DOL for issuing this important guidance. - October 25, 2015
Creating Jobs and Building Local Economies: Pacific Community Ventures 2015 Annual Luncheon
Pacific Community Ventures, a California-based nonprofit, invites you to its Annual Luncheon on creating quality jobs for the people in underserved communities who need them most. - March 28, 2015
National Small Business Advising Program Launched by Pacific Community Ventures
www.BusinessAdvising.org gets small business owners the support they need to grow. - June 07, 2014