2021 was a year of growth and change for Project Equity, fueled by the support of our donors and funders. We helped more workers and businesses than ever along the pathway to employee ownership. We expanded to new regions, built new partnerships, launched new initiatives and advanced our efforts to create economic opportunity for Black and Brown workers by making employee ownership a fundamental part of the way America does business. And, with your support, we appointed our first CEO and expanded our team to make this work possible.
Some highlights from our 2021 Annual Report:
- Find out how a Los Angeles bakery and a Berkeley tech company empowered their workers and secured their founders’ legacies by becoming worker-owned cooperatives.
- Learn about our second capital initiative, which has enabled us to provide flexible and forgivable funding to help businesses recovering from the pandemic to pursue employee ownership transitions.
- Discover how we ramped up our work to influence state and federal policy, including helping to craft the California Employee Ownership Act (SB 1407).
- Read interviews with our Employee Ownership Champions, offering their unique perspectives from across the employee ownership ecosystem.