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ORGANIZATION OVERVIEW
At Project Equity, we re-envision community economic development to shift control locally and build economic resiliency in low-income communities. We envision a future where business decisions are made through a lens of what is good for workers and communities, leading to businesses that are more successful, communities that are more resilient, and workers who have stable jobs and economic security. Our mission is to foster economic resiliency with low-income communities by demonstrating and replicating strategies that increase worker ownership. Our clients are unique local businesses (most with 25-50 employees, but increasingly larger companies as well) that are assessing or implementing transitions to broad-based employee ownership (e.g. worker cooperatives, democratic ESOPs or other forms of employee or stakeholder ownership).
Project Equity’s current programs are:
- BUSINESS OUTREACH AND EDUCATION: we raise awareness and educate business owners and community leaders through professional marketing and PR strategies and by partnering with municipal economic development staff, small businesses networks, and professional service providers such as CPAs, M&A advisors, and exit planners.
- BUSINESS TRANSITION PROGRAM: we help businesses convert to employee ownership through our Business Transition Program in three distinct phases: feasibility assessment; employee ownership design, preparation and transaction; and “Thrive,” our post-conversion support for new employee-owners, which emphasizes board and leadership development, and individual asset building. Our custom service package includes hands on training as well as technical assistance.
- REGIONAL EXPANSION: we are creating repeatable processes for our Business Outreach and Business Transition programs and adapting them with regional partners around the country, with strategic partnerships in the Twin Cities and Western North Carolina, outreach partnerships in three other cities, and other regional expansion efforts in the works.
We are seeking talented candidates for the following roles:
Director of Communications and Marketing
As Project Equity’s Director of Communications and Marketing, you will help shape the narrative of employee ownership. Building on the groundwork laid since the organization’s inception, you will showcase the power of employee ownership as the preferred business model to achieve the goals of business owners, employees, communities, economic development specialists and others, and you will continuously raise the profile of Project Equity and our work within key influencer audiences.
Director of Advancement
New updates!
Now including the impacts of COVID-19, our latest study across the United States indicates millions of businesses are at risk of closing and point to employee ownership as a solution.
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