Marjorie Kelly, co-founder of Fifty by Fifty and a leading authority on the democratic economy, talks with Bret Keisling, host of The ESOP Podcast.
Continue ReadingSenators Introduce Employee Ownership Legislation
A brief overview of legislative proposals to lift some of the barriers to growing employee ownership
Continue ReadingApis & Heritage Legacy Fund Targets Racial Wealth Gap
Announcing its first close at $30 million, the fund plans to acquire about 8 firms with majority workforces of color to transition to employee ownership.
Continue ReadingDick May and Chris Mackin: A $100 billion loan guarantee program for employee ownership would be transformational
A federal loan guarantee program of $100 billion per year would permit policymakers to grasp how employee ownership could truly address the problem of economic inequality on a national level.
Continue ReadingInternational Employee Ownership Organizations Endorse Corporate Responsibility
Growing momentum to put social purpose at the center of employee ownership firms.
Continue ReadingWorkers at Cooperatives Report High Job Satisfaction and Community Engagement
Dataset from first national survey of co-op workers publicly available through Democracy at Work Institute by Adria Scharf Over the years, worker cooperatives have sparked the imagination and hope of many who dream of a more just alternative to the capitalist employment relationship. In a cooperative, workers own and control the business democratically—in contrast with […]
Continue ReadingBruce Dobb & Tomás Durán: Overcoming the “Equity Injection” Obstacle to Employee Ownership
The reauthorization of the State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) could offer a timely answer to the down payment dilemma.
Continue ReadingSSBCI Technical Assistance Funds Could Support Outreach & Education
State Centers for Employee Ownership could ramp up their education and outreach to business owners, business service providers, and state leaders with SSBCI technical assistance funds.
Continue ReadingThe State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI): An Opportunity to Grow Employee Ownership?
Could SSBCI 2.0 provide the capital to begin to significantly redistribute business ownership?
Continue ReadingMelissa Hoover: SSBCI Financing Sets Stage to Grow Employee Ownership Conversions
As a field we will need to work hard to build the pathways for capital and technical assistance within the SSBCI program.
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