Urban Manufacturing Alliance The Urban Manufacturing Alliance 2018 Gathering was held in Pittsburgh and focused on Building Coalitions to Create Equitable Manufacturing Ecosystems. Patty Viáfara, Project Equity's Client Services Manager, pictured right with Rasheed...
“Employee ownership is both a profound and a simple business model in which business decisions are made through the lens of what is good for their employees and by extension, their families and their communities. It creates true pathways to opportunity and quality jobs.”
Touted as "picking up where Merger and Acquisition firms leave off" employee ownership centers are powerful regional organizations that expand the retirement options for owners of privately-held businesses. We are excited, through our board involvement, to play a role...
The Main Street Employee Ownership Act is a major federal breakthrough addressing the small business closure crisis and wealth inequality in our country. The new law empowers the Small Business Administration to assist in the conversion of businesses to employee...
How often do we hear people say, “I hate my job!” Creating profitable companies isn’t in conflict with creating happy employees; in fact, it’s much the opposite. People support what they help create. This mantra was repeated at a Great Game of Business workshop we...
In the dawn of the Information Age, our nation finds itself radically redefining how work is organized. This spring, Project Equity attended the 2018 Equity Summit hosted by PolicyLink. This year's Equity Summit generated unprecedented interest, swelling to over 4,000...
Two monumental bills in support of employee-owned companies have received federal bipartisan and bicameral support, The Main Street Employee Ownership Act in the House of Representatives and the Small Business Employee Ownership Promotion Enhancement Act in the...
For most businesses, the employees are the most valuable assets. Imagine, if job satisfaction skyrocketed, how much would that increase the productivity of a business and keep people in their jobs longer term? Studies conducted by the National Center for Employee...
Project Equity was invited to write a piece for The Democracy Collaborative, a national research institution working to build a more democratic economy by growing and preserving community wealth. In it we show, by inventorying retiring business owners, city by city,...
Our most recent publication highlights the role of participatory management in high-performing businesses, including a spotlight on New Belgium Brewing, a 100% employee-owned company. Participatory management is a management philosophy and approach in which employees...
