Media

• New! 2023 Employee Ownership Equity Summit Highlights: Part One – Project Equity
  Egreenews / April 29, 2023
• New! The Employee Ownership Expansion Network Receives W.K. Kellogg Foundation Grant to Increase Employee Ownership in Michigan
  Press release: PR Web / March 28, 2023
• New! The People’s Maximum Fun
  New York Magazine: Vulture / March 22, 2023
• New! VIDEO: Maximum Fun’s Big Announcement!
  Maximum Fun on Reddit / March 20, 2023
• New! His L.A.-based podcast company faced a crossroads. Now Jesse Thorn’s employees are owners  (in French here)
  L.A. Times / March 20, 2023
• New! Podcast network Maximum Fun is becoming a worker-owned co-op (in Spanish here)
  TechCrunch / March 20, 2023
• How Berkeley is Accelerating Community Partnerships to Enhance Small Business Equity
  National League of Cities / March 8, 2023
• The One Workforce Attraction and Retention Strategy You Probably Haven’t Considered
  NIST / March 1, 2023
• Six trust-based practices to help investors shift power to communities
  ImpactAlpha / Feb 28, 2023
• How Project Equity is turning employees into owners by surfing the ‘silver tsunami’
  ImpactAlpha / Feb 17, 2023
• Employee Ownership and the Fight For Economic Equity
  A Change is a Chance / Feb 15, 2023
• How to Convert Your Business Into a Co-Op
  Workest by Zenefits / Jan 14, 2023
• Advancing Employee Share Ownership, Rutgers University Appoints 34 Research Fellows
  Press Release – Businesswire / Jan 12, 2023
• New California law promotes worker-owned businesses
  American Public Media’s Marketplace / Jan 6, 2023
• Oakland bar and concert venue Starline Social Club announces closure
  SF Gate & Delicious Food / Dec 18, 2022
• Building and Sustaining Worker Cooperatives in the US
  Aspen Institute / Dec 15, 2022
• Ritual Coffee Focuses on Growth While Grappling With Its Complicated Past
  SF Eater / Dec 7, 2022
• California Embraces Employee Ownership: Will Other States Follow?
  The Nonprofit Quarterly / Nov 23, 2022
• Crucial questions to ask before selling your business
  Orange County Register / Nov 20, 2022
• How This Local Restaurant Is Taking The Patagonia Approach
  Next City / Nov 15, 2022
• Andrew Moss: We need to pay more attention to economic democracy
  Agusta Free Press, Black Star News, LA Progressive, Bohemian, Daily Review and Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber / Nov 6, 2022
• California Passes Employee Ownership Act: Lessons from an Advocacy Campaign
  Democracy Collaborative / Oct 26, 2022
• 4 Ways to Give Employees Part Ownership in Your Company
  CO: U.S. Chamber / Oct 24, 2022
• What makes Berkeley a hotbed of worker co-ops?
  Berkeleyside / Oct 9, 2022
• Every worker-owned company in Berkeley
  Berkeleyside / Oct 9, 2022
• Staff of life: Talking with Bellegarde Bakery’s new worker-owners
  Uptown Messenger, New Orleans / Oct 7, 2022
• Good Jobs Champion Group: Statement on Good Jobs
  Aspen Institute / Oct 4, 2022
• Governor Newsom Signs Ground-Breaking Law Giving Workers a Chance to Become Owners
  Press release – PR Web / October 3, 2022
• Bellegarde Bakery Transitions to Employee-Owned Cooperative
  Biz New Orleans / September 26, 2022
• Heinz Family Foundation announces 2022 Heinz Award recipients
  Philanthropy News Digest / September 22, 2022
• Heinz Award Honors Indigenous Woman Serving Native Communities
  The Daily Yonder / September 22, 2022
• Alison Lingane and Hilary Abell, co-founders of Project Equity, receive the Heinz Award for the Economy
  Heinz Award / September 22, 2022
• Bellegarde Bakery transitions to employee-owned cooperative
  Bake Magazine / September 22, 2022
• Bellegarde Bakery founder departs; game-changing local bread shop now employee-owned
  NOLA.com / September 21, 2022
• City of Tucson, Project Equity Launch Effort to Preserve Legacy Businesses
  Biz Tucson / September 20, 2022
• City of Tucson and Project Equity Launch Program to Preserve Legacy Businesses Worth $16 Billion in Revenues
  Press release – PR Web / September 17, 2022
• Long Beach Heritage kicks off new Legacy Business Program with 10 honorees
  Long Beach Business Journal / September 12, 2022
• A Bold Vision for Black Businesses and National Black Business Month
  Black Enterprise / Yahoo Finance / September 9, 2022
• Aprende a manejar el dinero de tu negocio y a conseguir más recursos
  La Estrella de Tucsón / September 2, 2022
• How California workers can own their futures
  San Mateo Daily Journal / September 1, 2022
• Opportunity to engage states around employee ownership: SSBCI TA grant applications due in October
  Fifty by Fifty / August 29, 2022
• Bridging The Gaps: Two Paths To Financial Freedom
  Forbes / August 25, 2022
• Spark Conversation 3: Moving from Financially Invisible to Financially Free
  Motley Fool Foundation & Ashoka / August 17, 2022
• The Challenge of Business Succession in Manufacturing and the Opportunities for Diversifying Ownership
  The Century Foundation / August 15, 2022
• ‘We are equals’: Worker cooperatives recover from COVID-19 setbacks
  The Daily Californian / August 10, 2022
• Kaiser Permanente Pilots Community Wealth Building Strategy Focused on Employee Ownership Conversions
  Fifty by Fifty / August 9, 2022
• Job Quality Toolkit: Strategies and actions to help small–to–medium sized organizations recruit and retain a high-performing workforce
  U.S. Department of Commerce / August 2022
• 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) / July 20, 2022
• Cambridge Local First Conversation with Franzi Charen from Project Equity
  Cambridge Commuity Television / July 12, 2022
• Project Equity busts four myths about Employee Ownership
  Surgeons of Steel / Summer issue
• Berkeley tech company turns into worker co-op as owner retires
  Berkeleyside / July 1, 2022
• The Great Awakening: Redefining Work, Values, and Purpose
  Nonprofit Quarterly / June 22, 2022
• California’s Expanding Employee Ownership Act
  The ESOP Podcast / June 10, 2022
• Building Worker Co-op Infrastructure: What Knowledge Does the Field Need?
  Nonprofit Quarterly / June 1, 2022
• Project Equity’s Evan Edwards
  The ESOP Podcast / May 31, 2022
• Shop Talk: Westbrae Nursery turns into worker co-op
  Berkeleyside / May 20, 2022
• The 2022 East Bay Innovation Awards Nominees
  East Bay Economic Development Alliance / May 19, 2022
• How Employee Ownership Models Help Put People First
  B The Change / May 19, 2022
• Legacy Businesses in Atlanta, Worth $163 Billion in Revenue, at Stake As Baby Boomers Retire
  Press Release, PR Web / May 16, 2022
• Project Equity Launches an Initiative to Retain Black-owned Legacy Businesses
  Metro Atlanta CEO / May 13, 2022
• Kaiser Permanente Hawaii boosts local businesses with new employee initiative
  BizJournals – Pacific Business News / May 6, 2022
• Kaiser Permanente making a push for small businesses to become employee-owned
  Fierce Healthcare / May 2, 2022
• Kaiser launches employee ownership initiative for suppliers
  Becker’s Hospital Review / April 28, 2022
• Opinion: Gentrification is killing Long Beach’s local communities
  Long Beach City College Viking News / April 27, 2022
• Employee-owned businesses foster healthier local economies
  Kaiser Permanente / April 26, 2022
• The Value of Green Businesses A Look at Two Green Businesses and Their Transition to Employee Ownership
  Exit Planning Institute / April 22, 2022
• How Arizonans are planning to keep their businesses locally owned
  KJZZ 91.5, Arizona / April 11, 2022
• CITI and Project Equity Launch Business Retention and Recovery Program
  Press Release, PR Web, Longview News-Journal / April 1, 2022
• Harnessing the power of employee ownership: Interview with Evan Edwards, CEO of Project Equity
  ICA Fund / March 31, 2022
• Project Equity Announces Employee Ownership Accelerator Campaign
  HR Tech Series / March 31, 2022
• Legacy Businesses in Arizona Worth $100 Billion in Revenue at Stake
  Press Release, PR Web / March 31, 2022
• Project Equity Announces Employee Ownership Accelerator Campaign
  Press Release, PR Web, HR Tech Series, Bezinga / March 30, 2022
• America’s SBDC Celebrates SBDC Day with new Annual Report and the Support of its Ambassadors
  PR Newswire / March 16, 2022
• The Restaurant Goes Radical A more equitable, accessible, and accepting vision for food.
  New York Magazine / March 8, 2022
• Leverage Employee Ownership as a Powerful Tool for Contractors
  Construction Executive / March 1, 2022
• Worker-owned Bay Area food businesses are on the rise
  San Francisco Chronicle / February 21, 2022
• Prudential’s small-business support
  Prudential Newsroom / February 17, 2022
• Local Butcher Shop goes worker-owned
  The Jewish News of Northern California / February 9, 2022
• Worker Co-ops Gaining Attention: New research and reports show importance of ecosystems for growing cooperative economy
  Fifty by Fifty / February 7, 2022
• They saved it! Staffers to reopen Berkeley’s iconic Bette’s Oceanview Diner
  SiliconValley.com / February 7, 2022
• Bette’s Oceanview Diner in Berkeley to reopen as a worker co-op
  San Francisco Chronicle / February 5, 2022
• Worker-Owned Meets the Moment
  Edible East Bay / February 3, 2022
• The American Council of Learned Societies Opens 2022 Leading Edge Fellowship Competition for Recent PhDs in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences
  PRWeb / February 1, 2022
• Project Equity Stemming job losses by helping exiting owners of small businesses transition to employee ownership
  Medium / January 31, 2022
• Empowering local nonprofits: California Solar Electric Company, Good Sun Solar give energy project to SYRCL
  The Union / January 31, 2022
• Worker Co-op Model Gaining Traction in Santa Clara
  The Silicon Valley Voice / January 28, 2022
• Where Are New Co-ops Emerging? The Changing Map of Co-op Development
  Nonprofit Quarterly / January 19, 2022
• Jefferson Public Radio in Northern California – Live interview with Hilary Abell The Jefferson Exchange / January 12, 2022
  

• The Case for Investing in Employee Ownership
  Stanford Social Innovation Review / January 3, 2022
• Employee Ownership Through the Lens of Two Glass Manufacturers
  Industry Week / December 28, 2021
• In-depth interview: Alison Lingane, Co-founder of Project Equity, a National Leader to Harness Employee Ownership
  NGO A Go Go Podcast  / December 20, 2021
• KCBS Morning Radio News – Live interview with Hilary Abell
  KCBS / December 8, 2021

• Report Shows Positive Impacts of Cooperatives on California Jobs, Housing and Childcare
  Broadcast News Resource  / December 8, 2021
• Opinion: COVID pandemic has shown the value of employee ownership
  The Mercury News  / December 3, 2021
• On the Edge of Homelessness: The Vulnerability of Extremely Low-Income Households in the Bay Area
  UC Berkeley  / December 2, 2021
• New $51M private equity fund Garden City targets small businesses amid ‘silver tsunami’ of retirees
  Atlanta Business Chronicle / November 29, 2021
• Steward Ownership: Exiting Your Business with Employee Ownership – The Journey of Alison Lingane0
  Her CEO Journey Podcast / November 25, 2021
• Pulling Together: Winter 2021
  Edible Marin & Wine Country / November 22, 2021
• Project Equity, a national nonprofit organization, names Evan Edwards as first Chief Executive Officer
  PRWeb press release / November 18, 2021
• Proof Bakery Makes Employees the Owners – Los Angeles Gem Preserves Local Legacy with Transition to Employee Ownership
  PRWeb press release / November 17, 2021
• Why Worker-Owned Food Co-Ops Are Suddenly Hot In The Rise And Grind Era
  LAist / November 16, 2021
• Are Co-Op Restaurants a Practical Response to the Pandemic?
  Yes Magazine / November 11, 2021
• Kendeda Doubles Down on Employee Ownership, an Underused Part of the Equity Toolbox
  Inside Philanthropy / November 2, 2021
• The Local Butcher founders are turning over the successful shop to their workers
  Berkeleyside / October 21, 2021
• The pandemic is helping create a new era of employee-owned companies
  Shareable / October 18, 2021
• Co-op restaurants: pipe dream or practical solution
  Counter / October 14, 2021
• EO Equals Campaign Launches to Strengthen Communities Through Employee-Owned Businesses
  Business Wire / October 4, 2021
• Employees buy out and run Proof Bakery in Atwater Village
  The Eastsider L.A. / September 22, 2021
• Employee Ownership Catalyst Fund raises nearly $5 million to back worker-ownership conversions
  Impact Alpha / September 8, 2021
• Employee Ownership Catalyst Fund Preserves Local Businesses and Jobs
  Fifty by Fifty / September 6, 2021
• 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
  December 2013