A new research brief by Senior Client Services Manager, Oyindamola “Alicia” Ijewere, investigates the decision-making factors influencing Black small business owners considering transitioning to worker cooperatives.
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By advocating for a shift to employee ownership, we can help individuals and communities build real wealth.
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In 2023, we collaborated with partners across the nation to advance employee ownership as a strategy for community wealth building and economic development. From Los Angeles to St. Paul, Chicago to Atlanta, we’ve built partnerships with local governments, workforce development boards, other nonprofits and many others…
The 3rd Annual National Conference on the Black Cooperative Agenda was held June 13-15,2024 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The conference was organized by the Network for Developing Conscious Communities (NDCC) and Nexus Community Partners with the theme Driving Economic Wealth: The Power of Black Cooperative Enterprises. While national in scope, the conference highlighted the growing
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This May 6-8, the 2024 Employee Ownership Equity Summit convened policymakers, funders, business owners and advisors to address some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities around broad-based employee ownership. Exceptional speakers, ranging from acclaimed journalist and author Nick Romeo to former Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs inspired attendees to develop visionary, actionable plans that will
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Broad-based employee ownership (EO) has emerged as a transformative strategy to boost incomes and build wealth for working people, including low- and moderate-income workers and workers of color. But as EO gains momentum across the country, questions remain about its specific impacts on Black communities: To what degree are Black workers currently benefiting from EO?
Above mural, ‘Our Liberation,’ in Oakland, California, by muralist Rachel Wolfe Goldsmith Over the last 10 years, Project Equity has demonstrated the power of employee ownership conversions to preserve legacy businesses and build wealth for both selling owners and employees. In 2023, we launched the Black Employee Ownership Initiative to deepen our commitment to expanding
Nataki Gregory: CEO, 8 years Rob Kawada: Marketing Director, 9 months Greg Pace: Financial Advisor and ESOP Committee Member We had the opportunity to sit with CT3 Education, an equity-focused education consulting practice based out of San Francisco, CA, with employee-owners across the United States. We talked about their decision to transition to employee ownership
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