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• New! Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative Launches Signature Campaign — “1,000 Black Businesses in 1,000 Days”
  Patch Media press release / May 1, 2021
• New! Can Co-ops Save Restaurants?
  Mother Jones / May and June 2021 issue
• New! ‘The big work we are doing’: California Solar Electric Company becomes first Certified B Corp in Nevada County
  The Union /April 30, 2021
• New! The Risky Business of Employee Ownership
  The Well News / April 15, 2021
• New! 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
  December 2013