April 2024

Sign on to support California’s Employee Ownership Hub

EO supporters across California are coming together in support of a budget request to fund the California Employee Ownership Hub. Senator Josh Becker and Assemblymember Ash Kalra are co-sponsoring this request for $1.5million over 3 years. This initial small budget allocation would fund the Hub Manager position and enable essential programming for the first three […]

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Championing progress: 2024 Employee Ownership Inspiration Award nominees

Employee ownership is a model that works from Main Street to Wall Street. While it remains one of the “best kept secrets” for business M&A, local business retention, strong local economies and equitable economic development, there are many employee ownership champions around the country working to elevate EO. During this year’s Employee Ownership Equity Summit,

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New bill supports worker-owned cooperatives

On March 19, Representatives Ro Khanna (CA-17) and Jamaal Bowman, Ed.D. (NY-16) announced a new bill, the National Worker Cooperative Development and Support Act, which supports worker-owned cooperative businesses by endowing the Small Business Administration, Internal Revenue Service, and numerous federal agencies with the authority to implement programs to support worker co-ops. A worker cooperative is a

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