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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The Washington Center for Employee Ownership (WACEO) is an initiative to catalyze EO across the state by raising awareness, building on existing practitioner capacity and expanding access to capital. The WACEO is being developed by the longtime EO champion Whatcom Community Foundation, with support from Project Equity. This center will join a growing number of
Becoming employee-owned without giving up WBE certification In 2011, after two years of careful planning, Sue Butler and Tracy Till began the process of selling their marketing agency, Butler/Till, to their employees. Using a common form of employee ownership, an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). They began by selling 51% of the business to their
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Last week, the LA County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion by Supervisor Holly Mitchell to create a countywide Worker Ownership Initiative (WOI). To raise awareness and support businesses across the county, the WOI will build on LA’s rapidly growing worker ownership ecosystem, which includes LA Coop Lab, Project Equity, and an increasing number
