Retirement readiness: Do you understand your succession options?
If you’re getting ready to retire, you should know all your succession options before committing to one.
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Savvy Sellers: Meet three business owners who are winning with Employee Ownership
Find out why these three owners took the leap and sold their businesses to the employees.
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2018 Worker Cooperative National Conference
“The U.S. saw a 10% growth in the number of worker coops nationwide from 2016 to 2017.” State of the Sector Report
Over 400 people from all across the nation attended this conference…
The Great Game of Business Conference
“What if every member of your team was operating as if he/she owned the business?” The Great Game of Business
Great Game of Business (GGOB) is an organization that believes that quality work happens when every member of the team…
Alison Lingane selected for the Aspen Job Quality Fellowship
“The Job Quality Fellowship presents an opportunity for Project Equity to bring employee ownership into important national conversations about job quality.” Alison Lingane, Co-founder, Project Equity
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Historic bill passes Congress
The Main Street Employee Ownership Act is a major federal breakthrough addressing the small business closure crisis and wealth inequality in our country. The new law empowers the Small Business Administration to assist in the conversion of businesses to employee ownership and updates the SBA’s lending practices to support the process. Project Equity was pleased to support this bipartisan
Five myths about Employee Ownership
The following are five common myths about employee ownership and the realities that bust them.
People support what they help create
How often do we hear people say, “I hate my job!” Creating profitable companies isn’t in conflict with creating happy employees; in fact, it’s much the opposite. People support what they help create. This mantra was repeated at a Great Game of Business workshop we attended in Asheville, NC, hosted by New Belgium Brewing, an employee-owned company. Thousands
The business of the future cultivates real ownership
In the dawn of the Information Age, our nation finds itself radically redefining how work is organized. This spring, Project Equity attended the 2018 Equity Summit hosted by PolicyLink. This year’s Equity Summit generated unprecedented interest, swelling to over 4,000 attendees and demonstrating a deep national desire to advance racial and economic equity. We were honored to participate
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State of the City Address
On March 28th Mayor Lily Mei presented Fremont’s annual State of the City Address and recognized Project Equity for our recent work spotlighting baby boomer business ownership in their thriving manufacturing sector. We performed an analysis for Fremont to quantify the number of manufacturing and supply chain companies that are 20 years or older —