Media
- New! Employees buy out and run Proof Bakery in Atwater Village
The Eastsider L.A. / September 22, 2021 - New! Employee Ownership Catalyst Fund raises nearly $5 million to back worker-ownership conversions
Impact Alpha / September 8, 2021 - New! Employee Ownership Catalyst Fund Preserves Local Businesses and Jobs
Fifty by Fifty / September 6, 2021 - New! Project Equity launches new financing option to help local businesses build for the future
PRWeb press release / September 2, 2021 - Acquisition-conversion: the promising new strategy for scaling worker ownership
Shareable.net / August 19, 2021 - Baby boomers exiting small businesses: crisis or opportunity
Programming Insider / August 13, 2021 - New Data Finds Aging Baby Boomers Own Half of Small Businesses in North Carolina; Vast Majority Have No Concrete Exit Plan, Putting Local Jobs and State Revenue at Risk
PR Web press release / August 11, 2021 - Emory teams with Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative to create more inclusive contracting
Atlanta Business Chronicle / July 26, 2021 - How an SF Restaurant Can Turn a Profit — Even With 40 Percent Labor Costs
Eater.com / July 13, 2021 - The Missouri Center for Employee Ownership Receives Funding from SRC Holdings and The Great Game of Business to Educate Missouri Businesses About Employee Ownership
PR Web press release / July 13, 2021 - N.C. Employee Ownership Center prepares for business transitions
Mountain Xpress / July 2, 2021 - New Partnership Launched to Advance Employee Ownership
PR Newswire / June 21, 2021 - New report says employee-owned businesses more profitable and resilient than many privately owned firms
San Diego Metro Magazine / June 16, 2021 - Workforce Partnership Report Finds Benefits from Employee-Owned Businesses
Times of San Diego / June 15, 2021 - The Missouri Center for Employee Ownership Receives Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Grant to Raise Awareness of Employee Ownership Benefits
PR Web press release / June 15, 2021 - Why Cooperative Food Businesses Are on the Rise: Restaurants are exploring worker-owned models
James Beard Foundation / June 10, 2021 - The Government Is Here to Help Small Businesses — Unless They’re Cooperatives
ProPublica / June 7, 2021 - The Minnesota Center for Employee Ownership Receives McKnight Foundation Grant to Raise Awareness of Employee Ownership
PR Web press release / June 1, 2021 - Reducing racial wealth inequality and preserving beacons of hope through employee ownership
Generocity / May 27, 2021 - New Data Reveals Twin Crises from Silver Tsunami and COVID-19 in Minnesota
PR Web press release / May 14, 2021 - Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative Launches Signature Campaign — “1,000 Black Businesses in 1,000 Days”
Patch Media press release / May 1, 2021 - Can Co-ops Save Restaurants?
Mother Jones / May and June 2021 issue - ‘The big work we are doing’: California Solar Electric Company becomes first Certified B Corp in Nevada County
The Union / April 30, 2021 - The Risky Business of Employee Ownership
The Well News / April 15, 2021 - Project Equity is helping small businesses create succession plans
San Diego Workforce Partnership / April 8, 2021 - Race and Gender Wealth Equity and the Role of Employee Share Ownership
Economic Opportunities Program, The Aspen Institute / April 1, 2021 - Webinar can help employees buy businesses
Lynden Tribune / March 24, 2021 - These 12 impact funds are catalyzing transitions to employee ownership
ImpactAlpha / March 18, 2021 - Can Cooperatives Build Worker Power? Give platform co-ops a seat at the policy table
Public Seminar / March 11, 2021 - Santa Clara To Help Local Businesses Create Worker Cooperatives
Santa Clara News / March 4, 2021 - Business Sense | Employee-owned businesses are recession-resilient. Let’s make more.
Times Standard / February 28, 2021 - City of Santa Clara News Release: City Launches Initiative to Stop Small Business Closing and Help Transition to Employee Ownership
The City of Santa Clara / January 29, 2021 - Slice of the pie: How this South Bay pizza shop successfully became a worker-owned cooperative
The Six Fifty / January 12, 2021 - A Job Quality Agenda for the Next Administration
The Aspen Institute / December 18, 2020 - New Partnership Launched to Amplify the Awareness of Employee Ownership
as a Cost-Effective Recovery Strategy for Small Businesses
Press Release / December 2, 2020 - Employee owned? Certification lets the world know
New Hope Network / November 23, 2020 - The $68 trillion transfer of wealth in America is evaporating amid crisis
CNBC / November 5, 2020 - Industry Leader Highlights Benefits of Transforming Businesses Into Co-Ops
The Weekly Journal / November 2, 2020 - Negocios privados pueden convertirse en cooperativas
El Vocero de Puerto Rico / October 31, 2020 - Employee ownership is a win-win for Berkeley’s small businesses, and the community
Berkeleyside / October 29, 2020 - Letters to the Editor: Rebuild with Equity
Good Times Santa Cruz / October 21, 2020 - Project Equity Helps SMBs Implement Employee Ownership Without Workers Accruing Personal Debt
BadCredit.org / September 23, 2020 - SV Lawmaker Taps Local Pizza Shop for Worker Co-op Panel
San Jose Inside / September 15, 2020 - Bay Area political events: Peter Strzok, House members town hall
San Francisco Chronicle / September 14, 2020 - Turning the small business crisis into an opportunity for equitable employee ownership
Impact Alpha / August 26, 2020 - Empleados de Happy Earth Cleaning se convierten en dueños del negocio desde comienzos del año
La Prensa de Minnesota / August 20, 2020 - Black co-ops matter.
Medium: Start.coop / August 3, 2020 - Building a Co-op Economy in Maine—And Perhaps in Your State Too
Nonprofit Quarterly / July 31, 2020 - Cooperative Ownership: A Covid Recovery Strategy
The Nation / July 7, 2020 - From Crisis to Opportunity: Recommendations for state and local governments
American Sustainable Business Council / July 2020 - American Companies are Sick. Here’s How to Cure Them.
NY Times / June 30, 2020 - How ESOPs Can Help to Close the Racial Wealth Gap and Promote Economic Justice
The Menke Group / June 19, 2020 - Democratizing business financing and ownership to build community wealth
ImpactAlpha / June 16, 2020 - California Employee Ownership Alliance Proposes $10M Recovery Package
Fifty by Fifty / June 11, 2020 - Long Beach Anchors Local Businesses Against Silver Tsunami and COVID-19 Crisis
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) LA / June 9, 2020 - Exit and Succession Planning Strategies to Preserve Equity
Urban Manufacturing Alliance / June 5, 2020 - A Quiet Workplace Revolution in the Shadow of Silicon Valley
The New Republic / June 3, 2020 - Project Equity’s Hilary Abell: The ESOP Podcast
The ESOP Podcast / May 26, 2020 - Project Equity’s Alison Lingane: The ESOP Podcast
The ESOP Podcast / May 19, 2020 - Community Support, Collaboration Signal Resilient Future for Co-operatives
Sustainable Brands / May 13, 2020 - We Must Flatten The Curve For Small Businesses Too
Forbes / March 27, 2020 - This Acquisition Won’t Hang Workers Out to Dry
Next City / March 5, 2020 - Accelerate Employee Ownership Initiative Addresses Capital Bottleneck
Fifty by Fifty / March 3, 2020 - Alchemy Collective empowers its baristas with ownership, quality coffee
Berkeleyside / February 25, 2020 - Building a Worker Co-op Ecosystem: Lessons from the Big Apple
Nonprofit Quarterly / February 25, 2020 - Seeking a More Worker-Friendly Economy, Some States Push Employee Ownership
Pew Charitable Trusts / February 3, 2020 - Supporters see worker co-ops as way to spread the wealth
Minnesota Public Radio News / January 28, 2020 - Building Workers’ Wealth in Cities and States
Center for American Progress / January 20, 2020 - Mini-cast 66: Project Equity – A Community-Based Focus on EO
Nonprofit Quarterly / January 15, 2020 - A New Path to Worker Ownership: Turning Private Equity from Enemy to Friend
Nonprofit Quarterly / January 10, 2020 - Urban Ore pushes for zero waste by finding treasures in trash
Berkeleyside / December 18, 2019 - Two L.A. County Initiatives Aim to Support Small Businesses
My News LA.com / December 17, 2019 - Project Equity and San Francisco Partner to Support Local Small Business Owner Success (press release)
Cision PR Web / December 9, 2019 - Grant Makers Face Uphill Battle as They Push for a Kinder Form of Capitalism
Chronicle of Philanthropy / December 4, 2019, pdf here > - ACCI Gallery molds connection between artists and their community
Berkeleyside / November 21, 2019 - Cal Solar becomes first worker cooperative in Nevada County, according to worker-owners, nonprofit
The Union / November 21, 2019 - Arizmendi Bakery’s Bread-Based, Worker-Owned Movement
SF Weekly / November 21, 2019 - Baby Boomers’ Untapped Legacy: Stronger Local Economies
Forbes / November 20, 2019 - Making a More Democratic Economy, One Revolving Loan Fund at a Time
Next City / November 14, 2019 - Op-Ed: Employee ownership: An important step to creating quality jobs in Bellingham
Bellingham Business Journal / November 7, 2019 - Op-Ed: A critical step towards building quality jobs in Long Beach: employee ownership
Signal Tribune / November 6, 2019 - Will Spokane’s Small Business Sector Wither as Baby Boom Owners Retire?
Nonprofit Quarterly / October 28, 2019 - Baby boomers face decision of a generation
Spokane Journal of Business / October 24, 2019 - Employee Ownership as a Business Retention Strategy
Fifty by Fifty / October 21, 2019 - Converting Businesses to Cooperatives Just Got Easier
YES! Magazine / October 10, 2019 - Project Equity’s Data Shows 1,100 Business Owners in Bellingham May Retire Within 15 Years
Press Release, PRWeb.com / October 4, 2019 - New Partnership Wants to Push Employee Ownership Closer to Mainstream
Next City / September 10, 2019 - Growing Long Beach: New Initiative Aimed At Business Retention, Employee Ownership
Long Beach Business Journal / September 9, 2019 - Project Equity and Shared Capital Cooperative Launch Accelerate Employee Ownership to Retain Small Businesses and Advance Quality Jobs
Press Release, PRWeb.com / September 5, 2019 - Can Search Funds Ease the Family Business Succession Crisis?
Market Currents Wealth Management / September 5, 2019 - Economy Remix: Can We Rebalance the Scales between Capital and Labor?
Nonprofit Quarterly / September 4, 2019 - Nexus Community Partners plans to further worker ownership and wealth
Minneapolis Star Tribune / August 31, 2019 - $24m in grants given to ‘democratic employee ownership’ in US
Co-operative News / August 28, 2019 - Grants Roundup: features Kendeda Fund investment in democratic employee ownership
The Chronicle of Philanthropy / August 28, 2019 - Kendeda Fund Awards $24 Million to Expand Employee Ownership
Philanthropy News Digest / August 27, 2019 - Kendeda Fund invests $24 million in helping nonprofits transition small businesses to employee ownership
National Cooperative Business Association CLUSA International / August 27, 2019 - Kendeda Fund Announces Plan to Invest over $24 Million in Expanding Employee Ownership
Fifty by Fifty / August 27, 2019 - To Build Community Wealth, a Grantmaker Gets Behind Employee Ownership in a Big Way
Inside Philanthropy / August 26, 2019 - Kendeda Fund Announces More Than $24 Million In New Grants To Expand Democratic Employee Ownership in America
Yahoo Finance / August 26, 2019 - Kendeda Fund Announces More Than $24 Million In New Grants To Expand Democratic Employee Ownership in America
The Daily Times, Blount County, TN / August 26, 2019 - Evergreen Cooperative Corp. shares in $24 million grant
Crain’s Cleveland Business / August 26, 2019 - Kendeda Fund Announces More Than $24 Million In New Grants To Expand Democratic Employee Ownership in America
Press Release / August 26, 2019 - Building Community Wealth that Lasts
Diane Ives, Kendeda Fund / August 25, 2019 - Heir to the throne? A wave of boomer-owned companies are heading into transition
Business Pulse / July – August 2019 issue - How employee ownership can prevent loss of beloved businesses and local jobs
The Mercury News, San Jose, CA / July 9, 2019 - North Coast SBDC getting ready for boom in employee-owned businesses
California’s North Coast Small Business Development Center / July 3, 2019 - It’s time for baby-boomer business owners to plan succession
Bellingham Business Journal / July 1, 2019 - Workers rising: The push for city-supported worker coops is taking hold in these Bay Area cities
The Mercury News (San Jose, CA) / June 30, 2019 - Nonprofit Aims To Address Succession Gap Among Long Beach Businesses
Long Beach Business Journal / June 3, 2019 - Job Quality Fellows Profiles: Alison Lingane, Project Equity
The Aspen Institute: Economic Opportunities Program / May 21, 2019 - Capitalism has failed immigrants, can worker cooperatives do better?
Truthout / May 6, 2019 - The Whatcom Report
KGMI Radio, Washington / May 5, 2019 - This City Has A Radical Plan To Get Rid Of Bosses
Huffington Post / May 2, 2019 - Project Equity’s Data Reveals 2,500 Long Beach Businesses as Possible Candidates for Succession Planning
Press Release, PRWeb.com / May 1, 2019 (Markets Insider coverage here and Benzinga article here) - Baby boomer retirement wave brings risk to Whatcom jobs
KGMI Radio, Washington / April 24, 2019 - New Research Details Effects Of Silver Tsunami On Local Washington Economies And What To Do About It
Press Release, PRWeb.com / April 23, 2019 Joint release with Whatcom Community Foundation (Whatcom Talk article here) - Training available for retiring business owners in Morehead
The Morehead News, Kentucky / April 10, 2019 - Employee Ownership Education Beginning in Response to New SBA Mandate
Fifty by Fifty, Democracy Collaborative / April 1, 2019 - Project Equity Data Uncovers Opportunities to Sustain Berkeley’s Small Businesses
Press Release / March 12, 2019 - In California, Berkeley City Council Votes Unanimously to Support Worker Co-ops
Nonprofit Quarterly / March 8, 2019 - Berkeley City Council increases support of worker cooperatives
The Daily Californian / March 7, 2019 - Berkeley Pledges Support and Funding for Worker Co-ops
East Bay Express / March 6, 2019 - More than 26,000 Kentucky businesses are owned by baby boomers, and many don’t have succession plans
The Manchester Enterprise / March 4, 2019 - Nonprofit Takes Leadership Role to Address Business Succession “Tsunami”
Nonprofit Quarterly / March 1, 2019 (Project Equity study referenced) - Long Beach Moves Into Phase 2 Of Economic Inclusion Initiative
Long Beach Business Journal / January 14, 2019 - Support for Employee Ownership Climbs Nationally
Nonprofit Quarterly / December 26, 2018 (Project Equity study referenced) - Could expanding employee ownership be the next big economic policy?
The Intercept / December 26, 2018 (Project Equity study referenced) - Nonprofit helps employees take hold of reins as business owners retire
San Francisco Chronicle / November 29, 2018 - Project Equity partners with the City of Berkeley to support small businesses
PRlog.org / November 29, 2018 - Employee ownership and the promise of quality jobs
Times of San Diego / November 12, 2018 - The government just made it easier for workers to own a piece of their employer
CNN Money / August 26, 2018 (Project Equity study referenced) - 18,920 Central Coast Small Businesses Threatened by Aging
PR.com / August 27, 2018 - Why the U.S. Needs More Worker-Owned Companies
Harvard Business Review / August 8, 2018 (Project Equity study referenced) - Interview with Alison Lingane, Co-founder of Project Equity
Heart Stock Radio / July 18, 2018 - Gillibrand Announces Her Bipartisan Employee Ownership Bill Included In National Defense Bill
Press Release / June 13, 2018 - Wealth Building for Equity: Lessons from the Twin Cities
NonProfit Quarterly / June 8, 2018 - Passing the business baton: How to transition into an employee-owned company
Rental Management Magazine / June 2018 - Nonprofits Shift Baby Boomer Businesses to Worker Ownership in Bid for Community Sustainability
NonProfit Quarterly / February 26, 2018 - With 1 in 6 jobs at risk, how do we turn lemons into lemonade?
Fifty by Fifty / Medium / February 22, 2018 - Why an Increasing Number of Retiring Entrepreneurs Are Selling the Business to Their Employees
Entrepreneur Magazine / February 21, 2018 - Trump Has Manufacturing All Wrong–And So Do The Rest Of Us
Forbes / January 31, 2018 - At Lancaster meeting, nonprofits urge employee ownership (paywall)
Central Pennsylvania Business Journal / January 25, 2018 - California City Looks to Keep its Factories Locally-Owned
Forbes / January 24, 2018 - Worker cooperatives offer real alternatives to Trump’s retrograde economic vision
Waging Nonviolence / January 23, 2018 - Sharing the wealth: The push for workers to buy the companies that employ them
Mercury News / January 13, 2018 - Local Ownership in Manufacturing: Fremont seeks to curb effects of the Silver Tsunami
Manufacturing.net / January 11, 2018 - Can The Wave Of Boomer Entrepreneur Retirements Create A Surge Of Worker-Owned Businesses?
Fast Company / January 10, 2018 - Baby Boomers Own Numerous Small Businesses in Central Pennsylvania
Press Release / January 8, 2018 - As boomer owners prepare to sell, a push for workers to buy
Central Pennsylvania Business Journal / January 8, 2018 - Local Ownership in Manufacturing: Fremont seeks to curb effects of the Silver Tsunami
City of Fremont / Think Silicon Valley, December 6, 2017 - Can Employee Ownership Hold Back a Silver Tsunami of Small Business Closures
Nonprofit Quarterly, November 27, 2017 - Baby Boomer Retirement Means Now’s the Time for Worker Owned Businesses
NextCity, November 21, 2017 - The Power of Employee Ownership
VoiceAmerica podcast hosted by Thomas Rosenberg and Rani Langer Croager, October 17, 2017 - The Purpose of Capital
SOCAP 2017 Conference, October 12, 2017 - Work It radio interview
Minnesota CBS, WCCO station: Jordanna Green interviews our partner Elena Gaarder of Nexus Community Partners, August 24, 2017
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- San Jose Pizza Shop Deals Employees a Slice of the Action
San Francisco CBS Local KPIX, August 18, 2017 - South Bay Pizzeria Slices Up its Ownership, Cuts Employees In
San Jose Inside, August 17, 2017 - Baby-Boomer-Owned Businesses in Transition (original article behind paywall click here for pdf)
Business Journal News Network, August 10, 2017 - Building Economic Sustainability One Pie at a Time
Northern California Community Loan Fund, August, 2017 - Boomer Entrepreneurs: Selling their Business without Selling Out
Forbes, June 28, 2017 - Boomer Retirements Threaten Economy
KTRH Houston, June 28, 2017 - Qué es el “tsunami plateado” que amenaza millones de empleos en Estados Unidos, América Latina y el resto del mundo
BBC Mundo, June 14, 2017 - Employee ownership could be Asheville’s key to prosperity
Asheville Citizen-Times, June 4, 2017 - How New York City Could Save 2,220 Jobs a Year
Next City, May 30, 2017 - The Bookstore in the Grove is closing. It won’t be the last.
The New Tropic, Miami, May 30, 2017 - 45% of Aging Twin Cities Small Business Owners May Shut Down
Press Release, May 25, 2017 - Employee ownership could be answer to exit of baby boomer owners
Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 24, 2017 - What will happen to Asheville’s baby boomer businesses?
Asheville Citizen-Times, May 22, 2017 - Sharing the Pie: Niles Pie rolls out a business plan that lets employees share in the profits
Edible East Bay, May 15, 2017 - Why the looming ‘Silver Tsunami’ could put 25 million jobs at risk
Washington Post, May 9, 2017 - 2.3 Million Small Businesses Nationwide Owned by Aging Boomers Preparing To Retire Puts 1 in 6 Employees’ Jobs at Risk, Based on a Project Equity Study
Press Release, May 8, 2017 - Baby Boomer Entrepreneurs Hope Co-Op Model Will Keep Business Going
Marketplace, May 3, 2017 - Who will fill their shoes? 45% of Western North Carolina biz owners near retirement
Mountain Xpress, April 28, 2017 - Bay Area Nonprofit Project Equity Transforms Businesses into Worker-Owned Coooperatives
Shareable, April 17, 2017 - Project Equity KALX radio interview with Project Equity Co-founder
KALX- UC Berkeley, March 24, 2017 - Voice from the Field: Employee-owned Businesses Can Boost Local Economies
Nonprofit Quarterly, March 22, 2017 - Berkeley’s Scrappiest Entrepreneurs Hope Co-op Model Will Keep Business Alive After They Retire
KQED Radio, March 14, 2017 - Project Equity Data Shows 45% of Bay Area Privately-Held Businesses Owned by Retiring Boomers: New insights foster opportunities for employee-owned businesses
Press Release, February 21, 2017 - Employee ownership may help businesses stay open as Boomers retire
San Francisco Chronicle, February 17, 2017 - Worker-Ownership, the Coop Incubator, and Addressing the Silver Tsunami
LIFT Economy podcast, Oct. 2016 - By the People, For the People
Conscious Company Magazine, Sept. / Oct. 2016 - For Some, Worker Cooperatives Emerge As An Alternative To ESOPs
Forbes, August 14, 2016 - Co-ops Gain Ground in Communities of Color
Rooflines blog via Shelterforce Magazine, July 7, 2016 - 10 Reasons to Leave Your Company to Your Workers When You Retire
Yes! Magazine, November 13, 2015 - As Boomers Retire, Millions of Small Businesses Will Change Hands. Can We Keep Them Local?
Yes! Magazine, October 13, 2015 - Gray Tsunami Creates Ownership Succession Opportunity for Low-Wage Workers
Living Cities Blog, December 19, 2014 - Three Moves for a Bigger, Stronger Worker-Owned Economy
Yes! Magazine, October 15, 2014 - How America’s Largest Worker Owned Co-Op Lifts People Out of Poverty
Yes! Magazine, August 15, 2014 - Laura Flanders/GRITtv interview with Project Equity about scaling worker coops
18 min., July 29, 2014 - Video interview on The Real News Network
8 min., July 14, 2014 - Seizing the Moment: Catalyzing Big Growth for Worker Co-ops
geo.coop, June 2014 - Release of white paper Worker Cooperatives: Pathways to Scale
community-wealth.org, June 2014 - Announcement of Presidio Graduate School’s first Big Idea Prize for Project Equity
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