To help you keep up with Project Equity and the employee ownership movement, here are the latest updates, top stories and media appearances featuring our team and our clients.
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Featured stories
Journal of Accountancy
Media Coverage
2025
25Jun
19Jun
06Jun
Becoming a CommonWealth company
SmartBrief
22May
14May
How to Reduce Economic Inequality by Expanding Employee Ownership
Nonprofit Quarterly
08May
24Apr
Ownership Without Culture Change Is Just Paperwork
Employee Ownership + Workplace Democracy
01Apr
What to know when your client is considering employee ownership
Journal of Accountancy
01Apr
03Mar
24Feb
17Jan
Impact Investing In Opportunity Zones, With Noelle St.Clair Lentz
Opportunity Zones Podcast
2024
17Dec
Retiring Baby Boomers Can Turn Workers into Owners: Securing American Business Ownership through Employee Ownership
Federation of American Scientists
01Nov
23Oct
Co-op Federation Seeks to Shift Worker Co-op Movement into a Passing Gear
Nonprofit Quarterly
08Oct
08Oct
09Sep
US Department of Labour Launches Employee Ownership Initiative
Cooperative News
28Aug
01Aug
Shared Ownership 101
EO+WD (Employee Ownership + Workplace Democracy)
29Jul
25Jul
10Jul
The Question Aging Bosses Should Ask Themselves
Wall Street Journal
09Jul
A Successful Owner Chooses an Innovative Exit
21 Hats podcast
11Jun
Closing the Wealth Gap with Project Equity
The Inclusive Community (podcast)
30May
29May
Boats for a Rising Tide: How Philanthropy Can Narrow the Racial Wealth Gap
The Bridgespan Group
03May
Building Black Wealth Through Employee Ownership
EO+WD (Employee Ownership + Workplace Democracy)
23Apr
04Apr
Can Employee Ownership Improve Capitalism?
Fast Company
02Apr
Rethinking Ownership: Putting Purpose at the Center
Harvard Social Impact Review
01Apr
15Mar
07Mar
EOTs as Tools for Strengthening Neighborhoods
Employee Ownership + Workplace Democracy
26Feb
13Feb
26Jan
25Jan
A Hopeful Way Out of Our Dismal Economics
Capital and Main
25Jan
16Jan
The Worker Co-Op Solution
21 Hats
08Jan
How some Twin Cities entrepreneurs sold the businesses they built
The Star News Today
2023
14Dec
County launches free employee ownership consultation
Beverly Press and Park Labrea News
12Dec
Giroux Glass Presented with LA County Award for Employee Ownership
US Glass News Network
29Nov
22Nov
Anchor workers ‘hopeful’ about bids for iconic SF brewery assets
The San Francisco Examiner
15Nov
Report Assesses Impact of Philanthropic “Big Bet” on Employee Ownership
Nonprofit Quarterly
15Nov
14Nov
23Oct
Investing in Enterprises That Work for Everyone
Stanford Social Innovation Review
21Oct
06Oct
Hanging with MaxFunHQ: Co-op Q&A
Maximum Fun / Youtube video
01Oct
How to sell your business and preserve your legacy through employee ownership
Atlanta Business Chronicle
01Oct
How a successful business owner improved employee engagement, created an ownership culture
Atlanta Business Chronicle
29Sep
25Sep
14Sep
08Sep
Back Anchor Brewing is on its last kegs, sorry its last legs
Angry Bear Blog
05Sep
Employee union launches fundraiser to save Anchor Brewing
The San Francisco Examiner
02Sep
These Tucson businesses share the wealth with their employees
Tucson.com | Arizona Daily Star
31Aug
29Aug
Solidarity Ale! Anchor Brewing workers plan to turn closed company into a co-op
The Real News Network
18Aug
Sink or Swim: Last Shot at Saving America’s Oldest Craft Brewer Could Be an Employee Buyout
The Race to the Bottom | University of Denver
18Aug
04Aug
S.F.'s Anchor Brewing eyes a cooperative future
Los Angeles Times
28Jul
Anchor brews its last bottles as employees continue fight to purchase company
KION 46 News Channel
28Jul
Employees call for delay in sale of Anchor Brewing, but company says it bottled its last beer
The San Francisco Examiner
27Jul
SAPPORO: Give Anchor Brewing Workers a Chance to Save Anchor Steam!
Change.org (petition)
27Jul
Anchor Steam Union Asks Sapporo for a Fair Chance to Bid on Beloved Brewery
The San Francisco Standard
25Jul
'Time running short' for employees looking to buy Anchor Brewing
NBC San Francisco Examiner
24Jul
The Future is Within Reach: How Public Banking and Employee Ownership Can Create Resilient Local Economies
Urgent Futures, Institute for the Future (Medium)
23Jul
23Jul
26Jun
24Jun
Executive co-leadership: An emerging model for better economic equality
Philanthropy News Digest
24Jun
21Jun
Impact at Scale: How the social sector can spark solutions to big problems
See Change Magazine
19Jun
ESOPs: A Safe Harbor Amidst the Silver Tsunami
Advisors Magazine
15Jun
05Jun
22Mar
The People's Maximum Fun
New York Magazine
22Mar
20Mar
20Mar
08Mar
How Berkeley is Accelerating Community Partnerships to Enhance Small Business Equity
National League of Cities
17Feb
15Feb
Employee Ownership and the Fight for Economic Equity
A Change is a Chance
23Jan
Advancing Employee Share Ownership, Rutgers University Appoints 34 Research Fellows
Press Release - Businesswire
14Jan
06Jan
2022
18Dec
Oakland bar and concert venue Starline Social Club announces closure
SF Gate & Delicious Food
15Dec
Building and Sustaining Worker Cooperatives in the US
Aspen Institute
23Nov
20Nov
Crucial questions to ask before selling your business
Orange County Register
06Nov
Andrew Moss: We need to pay more attention to economic democracy
August Free Press
26Oct
California Passes Employee Ownership Act: Lessons from an Advocacy Campaign
Democracy Collaborative
24Oct
4 Ways to Give Employees Part Ownership in Your Company
CO: US Chamber
09Oct
What makes Berkeley a hotbed of worker co-ops?
Berkeleyside
09Oct
04Oct
Good Jobs Champion Group: Statement on Good Jobs
Aspen Institute
26Sep
Bellegarde Bakery Transitions to Employee-Owned Cooperative
Biz New Orleans
22Sep
Heinz Family Foundation announces 2022 Heinz Award recipients
Philanthropy News Digest
22Sep
Heinz Award Honors Indigenous Women Serving Native Communities
The Daily Yonder
22Sep
22Sep
12Sep
Long Beach Heritage kicks off new Legacy Business Program with 10 honorees
Long Beach Business Journal
09Sep
02Sep
Aprende a manejar el dinero de tu negocio y a conseguir más recursos
La Estrella de Tucsón
01Sep
How California workers can own their futures
San Mateo Daily Journal
29Aug
17Aug
Spark Conversation 3: Moving from Financially Invisible to Financially Free
Motley Fool Foundation & Ashoka
15Aug
10Aug
We are equals': Worker cooperatives recover from COVID-19 setbacks
The Daily Californian
09Aug
01Aug
20Jul
Worker-owned apps are becoming more common, and changing the way the gig economy operates
KMGH-TV (Denver, CO), also shown in WPTV-TV (West Palm Beach, FL), WTKR-TV (Norfolk, VA) and KMTV-TV (Omaha, NE)
10Jul
California's Expanding of the Employee Ownership Act
The ESOP Podcast
01Jul
Project Equity busts four myths about Employee Ownership
Surgeons of Steel
01Jul
22Jun
The Great Awakening: Defining Work, Values, and Purpose
Nonprofit Quarterly
10Jun
Building Worker Co-op Infrastructure: What Knowledge Does the Field Need
Nonprofit Quarterly
31May
Project Equity's Evan Edwards
The ESOP Podcast
20May
19May
The 2022 East Bay Innovation Awards Nominees
East Bay EDA
19May
13May
02May
28Apr
Kaiser launches employee ownership initiative for suppliers
Becker's Hospital Review
26Apr
Employee-owned businesses foster healthier local economies
Kaiser Permanente
22Apr
11Apr
How Arizonans are planning to keep their businesses locally owned
KJZZ 91.5, Arizona
31Mar
31Mar
16Mar
08Mar
28Feb
Leverage Employee Ownership as a Powerful Tool for Contractors
Construction Executive
31Jan
28Jan
Worker Co-op Model Gaining Traction in Santa Clara
The Silicon Valley Voice
19Jan
Where Are New Co-ops Emerging? The Changing Map of Co-op Development
Nonprofit Quarterly
12Jan
03Jan
The Case for Investing in Employee Ownership
Stanford Social Innovation Review
2021
28Dec
20Dec
03Dec
02Dec
29Nov
25Nov
22Nov
Pulling Together: Winter 2021
edible Marin & Wine Country
02Nov
04Oct
22Sep
Employees buy out and run Proof Bakery in Atwater Village
The Eastsider L.A.
08Sep
06Sep
13Aug
Baby boomers exiting small businesses: crisis or opportunity
Programming Insider
26Jul
Emory teams with Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative to create more inclusive contracting
Atlanta Business Chronicle
02Jul
21Jun
16Jun
15Jun
10Jun
Why Cooperative Food Businesses are on the Rise
James Beard Foundation
27May
01May
Can Co-ops Save Restaurants?
Mother Jones
01May
30Apr
15Apr
The Risky Business of Employee Ownership
The Well News
08Apr
Project Equity is helping small businesses create succession plans
San Diego Workforce Partnership
01Apr
Race and Gender Wealth Equity and the Role of Employee Share Ownership
Economic Opportunities Program, The Aspen Institute
24Mar
Webinar can help employees buy businesses
Lynden Tribune
11Mar
04Mar
Santa Clara To Help Local Businesses Create Worker Cooperatives
Santa Clara News
28Feb
12Jan
11Jan
Report Shows Positive Impacts of Cooperatives on California Jobs, Housing and Childcare
Broadcast News Resource
2020
18Dec
A Job Quality Agenda for the Next Administration
The Aspen Institute
23Nov
Employee owned? Certification lets the world know
New Hope Network
02Nov
31Oct
Negocios privados pueden convertirse en cooperativas
El Vocero de Puerto Rico
23Sep
15Sep
SV Lawmaker Taps Local Pizza Shop for Worker Co-op Panel
San Jose Inside
14Sep
Bay Area political events: Peter Strzok, House members town hall
San Francisco Chronicle
26Aug
03Aug
Black co-ops matter.
Medium: Start.coop
31Jul
Building a Co-op Economy in Maine—And Perhaps in Your State Too
Nonprofit Quarterly
07Jul
01Jul
From Crisis to Opportunity: Recommendations for state and local governments
American Sustainable Business Council
19Jun
11Jun
09Jun
Long Beach Anchors Local Businesses Against Silver Tsunami and COVID-19 Crisis
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) LA
05Jun
Exit and Succession Planning Strategies to Preserve Equity
Urban Manufacturing Alliance
03Jun
A Quiet Workplace Revolution in the Shadow of Silicon Valley
The New Republic
26May
Project Equity’s Hilary Abell: The ESOP Podcast
The ESOP Podcast
19May
Project Equity’s Alison Lingane: The ESOP Podcast
The ESOP Podcast
13May
05Mar
03Mar
05Feb
Building a Worker Co-op Ecosystem: Lessons from the Big Apple
Nonprofit Quarterly
03Feb
Seeking a More Worker-Friendly Economy, Some States Push Employee Ownership
Pew Charitable Trusts
28Jan
Supporters see worker co-ops as way to spread the wealth
Minnesota Public Radio News
20Jan
Building Workers’ Wealth in Cities and States
Center for American Progress
17Jan
Mini-cast 66: Project Equity – A Community-Based Focus on EO
Nonprofit Quarterly
10Jan
A New Path to Worker Ownership: Turning Private Equity from Enemy to Friend
Nonprofit Quarterly
2019
18Dec
17Dec
04Dec
Grant Makers Face Uphill Battle as They Push for a Kinder Form of Capitalism
Chronicle of Philanthropy
21Nov
21Nov
21Nov
07Nov
Op-Ed: Employee ownership: An important step to creating quality jobs in Bellingham
Bellingham Business Journal
28Oct
Will Spokane’s Small Business Sector Wither as Baby Boom Owners Retire?
Nonprofit Quarterly
24Oct
Baby boomers face decision of a generation
Spokane Journal of Business
21Oct
Employee Ownership as a Business Retention Strategy
Fifty by Fifty
11Oct
09Sep
Growing Long Beach: New Initiative Aimed At Business Retention, Employee Ownership
Long Beach Business Journal
04Sep
Economy Remix: Can We Rebalance the Scales between Capital and Labor?
Nonprofit Quarterly
31Aug
Nexus Community Partners plans to further worker ownership and wealth
Minneapolis Star Tribune
28Aug
Grants Roundup: features Kendeda Fund investment in democratic employee ownership
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
28Aug
$24m in grants given to ‘democratic employee ownership’ in US
Co-operative News
27Aug
27Aug
Kendeda Fund invests $24 million in helping nonprofits transition small businesses to employee ownership
National Cooperative Business Association CLUSA International
27Aug
Kendeda Fund Awards $24 Million to Expand Employee Ownership
Philanthropy News Digest
25Aug
Building Community Wealth that Lasts
Diane Ives, Kendeda Fund
08Jul
How employee ownership can prevent loss of beloved businesses and local jobs
The Mercury News, San Jose, CA
01Jul
It’s time for baby-boomer business owners to plan succession
Bellingham Business Journal
30Jun
26Jun
Evergreen Cooperative Corp. shares in $24 million grant
Crain’s Cleveland Business
26Jun
03Jun
Nonprofit Aims To Address Succession Gap Among Long Beach Businesses
Long Beach Business Journal
21May
Job Quality Fellows Profiles: Alison Lingane, Project Equity
The Aspen Institute: Economic Opportunities Program
05May
The Whatcom Report
KGMI Radio, Washington
03May
This City Has A Radical Plan To Get Rid Of Bosses
Huffington Post
24Apr
Baby boomer retirement wave brings risk to Whatcom jobs
KGMI Radio, Washington
23Apr
01Apr
Employee Ownership Education Beginning in Response to New SBA Mandate
Fifty by Fifty, Democracy Collaborative
09Mar
More than 26,000 Kentucky businesses are owned by baby boomers, and many don’t have succession plans
The Manchester Enterprise
08Mar
07Mar
The Daily Californian
East Bay Express
01Mar
Nonprofit Takes Leadership Role to Address Business Succession “Tsunami”
Nonprofit Quarterly
14Jan
Long Beach Moves Into Phase 2 Of Economic Inclusion Initiative
Long Beach Business Journal
02Jan
Support for Employee Ownership Climbs Nationally
Nonprofit Quarterly
2018
28Dec
28Nov
Nonprofit helps employees take hold of reins as business owners retire
San Francisco Chronicle
12Nov
Employee ownership and the promise of quality jobs
Times of San Diego
08Aug
Why the U.S. Needs More Worker-Owned Companies
Harvard Business Review
18Jul
Interview with Alison Lingane, Co-founder of Project Equity
Heart Stock Radio
13Jul
Gillibrand Announces Her Bipartisan Employee Ownership Bill Included In National Defense Bill
Press Release, PR Web, HR Tech Series, Bezinga
08Jun
Wealth Building for Equity: Lessons from the Twin Cities
NonProfit Quarterly
26Feb
22Feb
21Feb
25Jan
At Lancaster meeting, nonprofits urge employee ownership
Central Pennsylvania Business Journal
23Jan
11Jan
10Jan
08Jan
As boomer owners prepare to sell, a push for workers to buy
Central Pennsylvania Business Journal
08Jan
2017
05Dec
Local Ownership in Manufacturing: Fremont seeks to curb effects of the Silver Tsunami
City of Fremont / Think Silicon Valley
27Nov
Can Employee Ownership Hold Back a Silver Tsunami of Small Business Closures
Nonprofit Quarterly
17Oct
The Power of Employee Ownership
VoiceAmerica podcast
12Oct
The Purpose of Capital
SOCAP 2017 Conference
17Aug
08Aug
Building Economic Sustainability One Pie at a Time
Community Vision Capital & Consulting
14Jun
Employee ownership could be Asheville’s key to prosperity
Asheville Citizen-Times
14Jun
30May
29May
The Bookstore in the Grove is closing. It won’t be the last.
The New Tropic, Miami
25May
24May
Employee ownership could be answer to exit of baby boomer owners
Minneapolis Star Tribune
22May
What will happen to Asheville’s baby boomer businesses?
Asheville Citizen-Times
15May
09May
28Apr
17Apr
24Mar
Project Equity KALX radio interview with Project Equity Co-founder
KALX- UC Berkeley
21Mar
Employee-owned Businesses Can Boost Local Economies
Nonprofit Quarterly
14Mar
17Feb
Employee ownership may help businesses stay open as Boomers retire
San Francisco Chronicle
2016
24Oct
Worker-Ownership, the Coop Incubator, and Addressing the Silver Tsunami
LIFT Economy podcast
05Sep
Conscious Company Magazine
SOCAP Digital
07Jul
Co-ops Gain Ground in Communities of Color
Rooflines blog via Shelterforce Magazine
2015
2014
2013
01Dec
Announcement of Presidio Graduate School’s first Big Idea Prize for Project Equity
Presidio Graduate School
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