2020 PCV holiday gift guidE
About Pacific Community Ventures
Under $25:
Unless otherwise indicated (by Local Only), national shipping or virtual experiences are available at all of these small businesses.
B-Love's Guest House
Oakland, CA (Local Only)
B-Love's Guest House was created with an intention of wellness and creativity. Great for short term stays, this beautiful Victorian house has a wonderful backyard garden and unique holistic hand made products.
Featured Product: A stay in the guesthouse with a beautiful urban garden. Soak up the sun or chill in the shade. This urban oasis has, veggies, fruit, herbs, and flowers grown year round. This is a great space to relax, have a meal, or event get some work done.
Bombay Wraps
Chicago, IL (Local Only)
Delicious Indian dishes served in a familiar form - wraps, sandwich roll, rice & salad bowls.
Featured Product: Chicken Tikka & Samosas (side) are a must try!
Christmas Corner
Lake Forest, CA (Local Only)
This is a personalized ornament store where we write names, years, messages and more to make connections.
Featured Product: Family Ornaments
Daybreak Seaweed
Oakland, CA
Daybreak Seaweed is a two-woman team creating nutrient-packed, umami-rich seaweed products that are good for you and good for the ocean. Our easy-to-use products are packed with salty and savory goodness, nourishing vitamins and minerals, and add an umami-filled depth of flavor to any dish. We support small regenerative ocean farms in Alaska, that are growing seaweed in a way that restores the ecosystem and absorbs carbon!
Featured Product: Our Nori + Wakame Seaweed Flakes. They are versatilie and easy to sprinkle on to avocado toast, popcorn, roasted veggies, rice, or baked into bread and desserts (from sea salt chocolate brownies to miso tahini cookies!)
Dippity and Snark
Akron, OH
Dippity and Snark is an independent design studio offering cards, stationery and illustrated goods. You'll find so many fun goodies from stickers and stuffies to sassy greeting cards. Dippity and Snark is your one stop gift shop!
Featured Product: Stop Believing in Santa Christmas Card
Falafel, etc.
Fremont, CA (Local Only)
Authentic Middle Eastern restaurant. Family friendly. Focused on quality, cleanliness, and service.
Featured Product: Falafel, Hummus, Shwarma, Kabob
Fingersnaps Media Arts
San Francisco, CA
Fingersnaps Media Arts in the heart & soul of the Mission District in San Francisco, envisioned and founded by DJ Lamont. It is a creative, educational and artistic dj-studio, to converge and partake in exploring one's passion; learn to dj, record a mix, formal talks, workshops and dj entertainment services.
Featured Product: Kumbu Kumbu the visual memory card game. Enthrall flipping and memorizing original artistic photography cards captured from San Francisco and beyond of people, places, and things. And for the music lover, learn to DJ!
Glazier
San Francisco, CA (Local Only)
Fresh, Delicious, Natural rolled ice cream made from scratch on the spot. The shop is located at 414 Sutter Street at Union Square at the heart of the city. Along with great ice creams, come to us for seasonal flavor such as pumpkin pie and also great selection of tea, coffee and snacks.
Featured Product: Hello Marshmallow ice cream made with Oreo cookie, roasted marshmallow and Nutella
Healthy Eating On The Go Protein Bars
Burnsville, MN
Our bars are all natural and made with only ingredients you know and can read and pronounce. We focus on ingredients that have benefits to our bodies.
Featured Product: Peanut butter chocolate oat bar is our best seller!
Hooray Hoopla LLC
Philadelphia, PA
Pals Socks come paired as two different friends. Pals inspires empathy, inclusivity, and an easy teachable moment about why it’s soooo fun to have a friend who isn’t just like you! To add depth to our mission, all pairs come with their own collectible PalsCard, where kids can name their new Pals and learn how they met.
Featured Product: Gingerbread & Candy Cane | Crowded Teeth Artist Series | Kids Christmas Mismatched Socks
Kaathis LLC
Chicago, IL (Local Only)
Fast casual restaurant serving Fresh Indian Street Food. Delicious, healthy, dietary restriction and specialized diet friendly options available.
Featured Product: Masala Chicken Roll, Mango Shake, Paneer Makhani Bowl, Chicken Biryani, Samosas
Lulu's Restaurant
Van Nuys, CA (local only)
Lulu's Restaurant has been a San Fernando Valley landmark since 1976, serving authentic comfort food to millions of Valley residents. You must try our Memphis style BBQ, large salads, fresh pastas and truly delicious sandwiches.
Featured Product: Lulu's Famous Broasted Chicken
Nuts+Nuts
San Mateo, CA
We are a women owned company that work directly with cashew farmers in Central Java, Indonesia and almond farmers in California. We roast these nuts using our family recipe in small batches using local ingredients.
Featured Product: Chili lime leaves cashews in 176 oz and 4 oz; California almonds with rosemary, maple, and sea salt
Paz Holding, Inc. dba A+ Insurance Service
Studio City, CA (Local Only)
Our agency will help you get the best most affordable health insurance for the upcoming 2021. We are a store front for Covered CA and specialized in Employer benefits, Medicare 65+, International travel benefits and Stress reduction Techniques.
Featured Product: Covered CA Subsidy / Medicare holiday promotion
Progeny Coffee Farmers
Oakland, CA
Our brand, Progeny Coffee Farmers goes beyond trade. We’ve removed any unnecessary middlemen in our supply chain. We offer coffee farmers a set rate for their crop based on quality, independent of the fluctuations of the market that often leave growers operating at a loss.
Featured Product: El Poder and Single Serve Coffee
Smith Golden Rule
Washington, DC
Stay clean and safe this holiday season with our All Natural Sugarcane Hand Sanitizer! Help empower people with knowledge and confidence to sustain safe communities. We offer the highest quality natural FDA/WHO/CDC formulation hand sanitizer.
Featured Product: Hand Sanitizer
Snuggabear Mobile LLC
Dothan, AL
Big Fun for Everyone. Plush cushions can be purchased as gifts or you can buy them for yourself.
Featured Product: Birthday Tee with Red Sleeves
The Assembly
West Hollywood, CA (Local Only)
Located on iconic N. Robertson Blvd in West Hollywood, California, The Assembly is a specialty coffee and tea shop. At The Assembly, we seek to create an inviting space for the community, where coffee serves as the invitation for people to come gather and engage in meaningful exchange and conversation.
Featured Product: Gift Cards
The Empowered Cookie
Oakland, CA
Soft, moist, chewy and baked to fluffy perfection! Our line of individually packaged cookies are ideal for anyone looking to empower their diet with premium plant based nutrition.... in the form of a delicious cookie! Certified Vegan, Paleo, Gluten-free & refined sugar-free. Our flavors are bold & seasonally inspired- we're here to win your taste buds and get you through the day, one bite at a time.
Featured Product: Our Variety Packs (Fruity and Floral or Chocolate Lovers)!
V-Solutions Consulting, LLC
El Segundo, CA
V-Solutions provides training and consulting but we also have psychoeducational books and a very interesting novel that is a psychological thriller.
Featured Product: "She: A puzzle undone" is a psychological thriller that will captive you
Wight Tea Company
Baltimore, MD
Wight Tea Company handcrafts adventurous loose leaf tea blends and sources high quality single origin teas.
Featured Product: Fireside Fig, Cinnamon Walnut Yaupon
Yemen Kitchen
San Francisco, CA (Local Only)
Mediterranean restaurant specializing in Yemeni cuisine.
Featured Product: Roasted Lamb Dinner, Chicken Kabsah Dinner
Z Wraps
Easthampton, MA
Z Wraps, handmade in Massachusetts, offer a beautiful, reusable, easy to use alternative to single use plastic. They also keep your food fresher longer—win! Z Wraps are soft, pliable, and stick down when you want them to—the first time.
Featured Product: Sustainable and reusable Z Wraps last over 100 washes!
Our mission
Pacific Community Ventures envisions a world of thriving communities where everyone has a fair shake. Our mission is to invest in small businesses, create good jobs for working people, and make markets work for social good. We achieve our mission through a “Good Jobs, Good Business” model that combines affordable loans with pro-bono advising; our BusinessAdvising.org platform, impact measurement, evaluation and research; and tools and small grants to create good-quality jobs that address racial and gender wealth gaps. Pacific Community Ventures is a 501c3 nonprofit social enterprise and community development financial institution (CDFI).