Small businesses make your neighborhood, town, or city unique, but too many of them fail because they can’t access the capital, advice, or resources they need to succeed.
Pacific Community Ventures helps small business owners grow and create good local jobs through a “Good Jobs, Good Business” model that combines fair and affordable loans with pro-bono advising, free tools, and incentives to profitably create good jobs with strong wages and benefits.
In the last 20 years, we’ve impacted the lives of thousands of small business owners who have created and grown tens of thousands of jobs. We invested more than $80 million in quality-job-creating companies and our volunteers have donated the equivalent of $2 million in pro bono advising.
Small Business Advising and Mentoring
Pacific Community Ventures invests in people. We leverage technology and volunteerism to provide small business owners with high-quality mentoring, at no cost. Our award-winning BusinessAdvising.org small business advising and mentoring platform matches business owners who are beyond the startup phase with pro bono business coaches and mentors who provide tailored, hands-on advising.
All advice is completely free and completely confidential. Companies working with our mentors increase their annual revenue by 20% on average. Our platform also removes location as a barrier, so wherever you are in America, we’ll find the best advisor to help your company grow. The entrepreneurs we work with typically own or operate brick-and-mortar businesses that have the potential to create new jobs for working people.
Small Business Loans
Does your small business need funds to increase inventory, expand or update your space, scale up for a new opportunity, purchase equipment, or add new jobs? Pacific Community Ventures can help. We’re a mission-driven lender that provides fair and affordable loans from $10,000 — $200,000 to California small businesses. Our loans help small business owners like you thrive and be successful.
We’re here to help small business owners build back better from the COVID-19 pandemic, including the capital and advice needed to pivot or reopen safely and sustainably. Pacific Community Ventures is also proud to be participating as a community lender in the California Rebuilding Fund.
If you’re a California company that’s been in business for at least 12 months, and you’ve got at least 1 full- or part-time employee, then we’d love to work with you! We don’t require a minimum credit score, and specialize in working with small business owners who’ve had a hard time accessing capital, like female entrepreneurs, immigrant entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs of color, and borrowers that may have been turned down for SBA or traditional bank loans.
Our Free Small Business Webinar Series
You can access all of PCV’s upcoming webinars, watch past webinars, and check out some special webinars from our partner organizations on our webinar calendar. We cover topics like bookkeeping basics, marketing in the pandemic, and running your small business safely for your workers and customers.
Good Jobs, Good Business
We know business owners like you want to provide really good jobs, but sometimes you’re not sure how to raise wages, add benefits, or engage employees in ways that work or your bottom line. The Good Jobs, Good Business Toolkit gives you the practical tools you need to offer jobs that balance the needs of the business with the needs of your employees.
Impact Investing Research and Consulting
We’ll work to guide the alignment of your profit with your social purpose. Our impact investing research and consulting practice helps clients effectively deploy capital and manage investments in alignment with their financial and impact objectives. We provide investors, philanthropists, and policymakers the tools, tactics, and strategies to measure and communicate the social and financial outcomes of their investments and increase their impact.
Pacific Community Ventures is an industry leader, evaluating investments across all impact themes and asset classes. Our work has influenced capital markets for decades and our clients have strengthened local economies, created tens of thousands of good jobs, and driven private and public investments in underserved communities. We believe we all have a role to play in creating equitable communities, where everyone has access to things like a good job, healthcare, education, affordable housing, and healthy food. We help people get a fair shake by working with investors to reshape markets and create supportive policies to better serve working people and their communities.
