What does it say about the viability of market-based strategies that even the most integral moral commitment to worker equity ultimately could not stand up to economic and market pressures?
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Can a Private Equity Fund Model Help Scale Employee Ownership?
Proposed model could provide a vehicle for investors to finance worker-centric employee ownership conversions.
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At the Beyster Symposium, Fifty by Fifty panel explored a new financing model to scale employee ownership.
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Evergreen Cooperatives plans expansion of its laundry co-op model to New Haven and other cities.
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Financial ownership vs. inclusive multistakeholder ownership leads to different outcomes for Jossey-Bass and Berrett-Koehler
Continue ReadingA National Strategy to Grow Home Care Cooperatives?
Participants at the USDA Interagency Working Group meeting see role for government leadership.
Continue ReadingMission-led Employee-Owned Enterprises Share Learnings in First-Ever Convening
Firms united in desire to spread transformative enterprise design model.
Continue ReadingOwnership Design: Why does it matter?
At Fifty by Fifty we’ve been exploring ownership design. Our research has led us to conclude that enterprise design is an important lever of change, the key to building an economy that is both sustainable and equitable.
Continue ReadingMission-led Employee-owned Firms: The best of the best
Fifty by Fifty releases report identifying new ownership design.
Continue ReadingMission-led employee-owned firms: The best of the best
Mission-led employee-owned firms embody a powerful model of enterprise design for a new era of environmental sustainability and social equity.
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