InSight

InSight is the thought leadership practice at Pacific Community Ventures – providing impact evaluation and policy research to some of the most prominent investment and philanthropic institutions in the United States. InSight’s analysis is focused in three primary areas:

• Impact Investing: advancing the global practice of investing for intentional social and environmental benefit by investigating and disseminating best industry practices and supporting the development of enabling policy and market infrastructure.
• Non-Financial Performance Measurement: contributing vital tools and ideas to the development of double- and triple-bottom line investment as one of the preeminent independent evaluators of non-financial return. In 2010, InSight measured the social impact of over $1.2 billion of private equity investments by 40 individual money managers.
• Small Business Needs And Development: supporting the creation of quality jobs with research into the policies, financing, and support services needed to build a vibrant, sustainable small business sector, particularly in underserved communities.

Representative clients:

California Public Employees Retirement System
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
The California Endowment
The Northwest Area Foundation
Hamilton Lane
Macquarie Funds Management

For additional information on InSight, please contact the team at:

Ben Thornley
Director
bthornley@pcvmail.org

Meredith Willa
Project Manager
mwilla@pcvmail.org

Tom Woelfel
Project Manager
twoelfel@pcvmail.org