PACCO is a welcoming and inclusive community organized to promote economic empowerment and resiliency for historically marginalized, economically disadvantaged, underserved and under-resourced communities.

We ground our efforts in racial equity and promote entrepreneurism, education, professional growth, civic engagement, and business development by providing scholarships, leadership training programs, technical assistance, and relevant workshops.

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PACCO Appoints New Executive Director

Portland, Ore. — The Philippine American Chamber of Commerce of Oregon (PACCO) is pleased to announce the appointment of a new executive director. For the first time in the twenty-five-year history of PACCO, the board unanimously voted to appoint Ms. Ellen Bolus-Edmonds as Executive Director, effective December 1, 2021.
“We are thrilled for Ellen and the community! Ellen is a talented, experienced leader with business acumen, positive energy, and deep passion for helping business owners thrive,” says PACCO President Janice Mason. “The board is confident with this decision and looking forward to building on accomplishments from 2020 and 2021,” said PACCO co-founder and board member Jaime Lim.
Bolus-Edmonds was born, raised, and schooled in the Philippines. She earned her MBA degree and graduated with the highest honors from the Ateneo Graduate School of Business and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of the Philippines. Bolus-Edmonds past leadership roles include several appointments as Chief Operations Officer and Vice-President for Marketing and Sales for various publicly traded companies. She is expertly adept in administering and leading organizational matters involving people, processes, and systems management. Bolus-Edmonds managed sales teams that generated a revenue of $200M annually.
“I am deeply passionate about assisting small business owners, community members, and clients achieve their maximum potential so that together we can position the lives of the next generation to be better than our own,” said Bolus-Edmonds. Leveraging her credentials as a Certified Professional Executive Coach (CPC, Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner (ELI-MP), and a Growthwheel Certified Business Advisor, Bolus-Edmonds will continue business recovery, growth, and development programs for PACCO, which during the pandemic included assisting more than 300 small business owners to survive. Ellen is faithful to her mission statement, “Live insanely great lives, make a difference every day!”
ABOUT PACCO
PACCO is a welcoming and inclusive community organized to build generational wealth to empower economic resiliency, affordable sustainability, and purpose-driven global commerce, especially for historically marginalized, economically disadvantaged, and underserved communities through relevant, impactful programs and meaningful connections.
By grounding our efforts in racial equity, we promote economic opportunity, education, professionalism, and civic engagement by providing scholarships, leadership training programs, and technical assistance. PACCO is organized as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

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PACCO Receives Grant From Business Oregon

PACCO is one of the grant awards recipients from Business Oregon for organizations focused on under-served small businesses. A total fund of $250,000.00 was awarded to PACCO. This fund shall be spent in delivering technical assistance services. Having experienced the challenges that the small business owners dealt with everyday as we served them in the last 14 months with previously funded technical assistance programs, greatly enhanced service packages will be offered this round.

To quote Pacco's Executive Director, Ellen Bolus-Edmonds, " We saw the need to enable entrepreneurs to work ON their businesses as opposed to working IN them. They want to grow but most of the time, they are too overwhelmed with putting out fires that they don't have the time to learn new things that would increase their productivity".

With the huge shift in the way business is conducted in the 21st century, our offered programs remain to be crucial to the small business owners so they may be able to compete with huge corporations having deeper pockets invested on staff, intense research, online marketing programs, e-commerce platforms. PACCO has enhanced KEY programs/services to include : virtual assistance services, business plan review & assistance, mentoring/cohort business coaching on resiliency & business expansion, referrals and resource navigation, marketing and brand identity, technology services – web development, social media management, e-commerce.

PACCO hopes to expediently help qualified entrepreneurs to either start and/or sustain and expand their businesses to create more jobs thus contributing in growing the economy.

Please watch out for application timelines and hiring announcements coming out next week!

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Donate Vaccines, Save Lives!

PACCO cares deeply about the well being of our fellow kababayans and relatives back home in the Philippines. Together with COFACC and the FACC Foundation, we're in the middle of an important fundraising effort as recognized by His Excellency Jose Manuel "Babes" Romualdez, Philippine Ambassador to the United States. We need your help. Please donate to save a life today!
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