Our service-led model begins with our entrepreneurs. By convening the right types of capital, partnerships, and technical support, we empower them to grow their companies, and fund good jobs.
Solomon Forest, The Red Door Catering
TOTAL REVENUES UNDER MANAGEMENT
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Total jobs under management:
Job growth, year over year:
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Companies owned by POC and women:
Our experienced pro bono advisors are central to our model, and serve as powerful allies to our companies. They leverage their expertise to provide targeted support and results-based advising for our entrepreneurs.
Reign Free, founder of The Red Door Catering, with ICA Fund Good Jobs CEO, Sean Daniel Murphy
PRO BONO ADVISING HOURS DONATED
Pro bono advising hours donated:
Value of pro bono advising:
Our advising hours donated increased year over year by:
1 hour of advising yields 21 dollars of employee income:
Every dollar of donated advising yields $165 of company revenue:
Securing growth capital is difficult. By partnering with capital providers who share our mission, weʼre not only able to fund our companies directly, but leverage our investments many times over, magnifying the impact of our capital.
Diego Gomez assembling a screen at AGW Screen Works
Ratio of investment to dollars raised:
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Capital deployed by Fund Good Jobs:
ICA Fund Good Jobs companies seeking capital:
Capital raised by Good Jobs Accelerator companies in 2017:
Capital raised to date by ICA Fund Good Jobs Investment Portfolio and Accelerator Companies:
The companies in our investment portfolio and the Good Jobs Accelerator are a testament to the power of small businesses to create catalytic community change.
Workers at Firebrand Artisan Breads
WAGE GROWTH, YEAR OVER YEAR
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Companies with benefits:
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Companies that made an effort to hire people with barriers to employment:
In the Bay Area, the economic divide is bigger than ever. Our small business services yield real impact, driven by the singular mission of creating economic freedom for the employees who most need it.
TOTAL WAGES PAID IN 2017
The kitchen at Red Door Catering
ICA Fund Good Jobs company workers with access to health benefits:
Total wages paid in 2017:
Education companies owned by people of color and women:
People of Color
Women
Education companies owned by people of color and women:
People of Color
Women
Companies with majority people of color and women management teams:
People of Color
Women
Average wages:
Education
Accelerator
Portfolio
Access to benefits:
Education
Accelerator
Portfolio
Average revenue:
Education
Accelerator
Portfolio
With the combined power of targeted advising, hands-on support, and access to our network, companies in the Good Jobs Accelerator have met over 85% of their funding need, all while growing revenues, wages, and creating more jobs, year over year.
Greg Colvin at EBY Construction building a drawer
Capital Raised by Good Jobs Accelerator Companies to date
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Job growth year over year
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Companies that provide benefits:
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For 22 years, we’ve worked with companies throughout the region, generated over a billion dollars in wages, and connected hundreds of entrepreneurs to business support and capital. Today we are doubling down on our work to serve high-potential businesses. With the support of The Sobrato Family Foundation, we have begun work in San Jose and are strengthening partnerships throughout the Bay Area.
Photo of Oakland by Rodrigo Soares
Working to create good jobs and economic freedom in the Bay Area
Companies based in Oakland:
Companies based in San Francisco:
Companies based in the remaining 9-county Bay Area:
Companies referred to capital providers and small business support partners in 2017:
The ICA Fund Good Job team
Members of the ICA Fund Good Jobs team and the Board of Directors
Chairman & CEO,
OluKai
National Managing Partner of
Corporate Development,
Deliotte
Executive Officer,
The Body Time
Director of the Bay Area Regional
Partnership,
The San Francisco Foundation
Director of Equity & Strategic
Partnerships,
City of Oakland
Principal,
Green & Associates
SVP/Chief Lending Officer, Community Bank of the Bay
President & Founder,
J.P. King Advisors
Director of Impact Investing, Wetherby Asset Management
Executive Director,
East Bay Economic Development
Alliance
Managing Partner,
Reed Smith