Chief Financial Officer 

Pacific Community Ventures

Oakland, CA (Hybrid; CA-based)

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Are you a strategic and innovative financial leader passionate about building a more equitable society? Pacific Community Ventures (PCV) – a nonprofit community development investor that supports small business entrepreneurs and their communities to build economic mobility through the power of inclusive entrepreneurship and a good quality job – is hiring a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to lead their Finance & Operations team and be a key thought partner to the CEO, leadership team, and Board during a period of significant growth. PCV is invested in addressing racial and gender wealth gaps and climate justice through small business owners as local community changemakers. PCV is one of the U.S.’s first impact investing funds and, over the past several years, they have become a leading statewide Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) in California, while scaling a nationwide mentorship platform for under-estimated small business owners and providing innovative product design and policy advocacy for their Good Jobs Innovation Lab. Core audiences and clients include small business owners across the United States; volunteer business experts; leading foundations and impact investors; other CDFIs; and policymakers at the state and local level.

This is an exciting time to join PCV as, over the past several years, PCV has worked with an outsourced CFO and Accounting company and, as they grow, they are bringing these essential roles in-house to be led by a dedicated CFO with strong managerial, analytical, and interpersonal skills who is passionate about investing in under-estimated communities and bringing lived experience to advance the mission. To apply, email a cover letter, resume, and list of three references (references will not be contacted without your advanced notice) to pcv@walkeraac.com ASAP.  

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Leslie Lindo Joins the Hidden Leaf Foundation as Executive Director

Hidden Leaf Foundation happily announced the appointment of Leslie Lindo to the role of Executive Director! Leslie – who brings decades of experience identifying and advancing solutions to address wealth disparities and promoting approaches that are less extractive on social and natural ecosystems – will officially begin her new role on January 28, 2025, as the third person to lead the Foundation -- following previous ED, Supriya Lopez Pillai (now President of Libra Foundation), and founding ED, Tara Brown. Leslie’s extensive experience in community development and social impact investing – most  recently as the Managing Director of the Olamina Fund at Candide Group and previously as VP of Strategic Partnerships at Common Future – deeply collaborative leadership style, and lifelong commitment to contemplative practice make her distinctly suited to lead Hidden Leaf in pursuit of their mission to promote inner awareness within liberatory movements in order to advance a more just, ecologically healthy and compassionate society.

Walker & Associates Consulting had the immense pleasure of supporting the board, search committee, staff, and extended Brown family in leading an inclusive, thoughtful, and robust search process that resulted in resounding alignment that Leslie’s shared vision, relational style, and relevant experience and leadership make her the right person to lead Hidden Leaf into its next chapter. Just as the Brown family was guided and inspired by the generosity and commitment to mindfulness and presence of their late father and Hidden Leaf Founder, Dave Brown, Leslie also attributes her own community-centered focus to her father, who dedicated his life to the economic empowerment of Black communities across the country by developing shared ownership models. We were inspired and enlivened by working with the incredible Hidden Leaf team and know that more great things are to come from the easeful, dynamic pairing of Hidden Leaf and Leslie! 

Ways To Support California Fire Relief

If you’re like us, you’ve been looking for vetted ways to support LA-area fire relief and recovery efforts. There are many ways and places to give, if you haven’t already, but please review, consider, and share the following opportunities:

• Our client and one of California’s largest philanthropic public health institutions – The  California Wellness Foundation – released a message from its President and CEO Richard Tate outlining the $1.1 million in immediate funding they are committing to four trusted partners and community-led funds with a focus on the needs of people who often don’t have access to resources in times of crises. See Richard’s message with links to these funds, including the California Black Freedom Fund's - Black LA Relief & Recovery Fund, here: Working Together: Supporting Wildfire Recovery
• Our longtime friend and colleague Antonio Manning, President & CEO of Affordable Living for the Aging, who has dedicated his career to uplifting communities across corporate philanthropy, community development, and affordable housing, lost the home he’d purchased back in the 1990s in historically Black West Altadena where he and his wife intentionally chose a community filled with teachers, artists, tradespeople, small business owners, pastors, and others who help make communities thrive and raised their two sons. If you’re looking for a specific family to support, please consider the Manning Family via this GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-mannings-after-tragic-fire