We are a community development loan fund created as a vehicle for investors that want to make the world a better place.

• Economic Justice:  International community investment fund whose goal is to apply the ethical principles of the “common good” to investment choices as a means of advancing economic justice and social change.
  

• Access to Capital:   Working as a wholesale participation lender, PCG lends to nonprofit and for-profit, mission driven organizations engaged in innovative and high social impact activities. By channeling investments into organizations that are working to empower low income people and communities, we finance projects that advance affordable housing, non-profit working capital, mission focused enterprise, and entrepreneurs and healthy communities in the US and abroad.
   
• National Leader:  In the fall of 2008 PCG was awarded with the Social Venture Network's (SVN) Innovation Award for our loan participation model which gets more capital into communities that need it most. Click here to read the full SVN press release! During the Clinton Administration we received national recognition when we were given the Presidential Award for Excellence in Microenterprise Development for innovation and social impact.
  

• Small Dollars, Big Impact:   Community investing asks investors to dedicate a modest portion of their investment portfolios to activities that pay a below-market return, but generate significant community benefits. 

• Faith Based Initiative:   PCG is a collaborative initiative of Congregations of Catholic Sisters, Brothers and Priests, Catholic health care systems, and Protestant denominations. Currently 88 faith-based institutions have committed or invested over $11 million. PCG is also a membership corporation comprised of faith-based institutions dedicated to promoting economic justice.
  
• Investing with Your Values:   PCG empowers organizations to invest with their values. PCG is part of a small -- but emerging -- sector of community investing pools that raise capital from socially motivated investors that would otherwise have difficulty finding high impact community development organizations. 
  
• Strong Performance:   Since 1989, PCG has made loans and deposits totaling nearly $20 million to community based non-profit organizations. Eighty-percent of PCG’s activities are domestic and twenty-percent international. PCG has demonstrated solid financial performance with very low loan losses.