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June 8, 2023 | 10:00 AM PST / 1:00 PM EST

Sell your business and attract & retain employees

Join us for a free webinar to learn about employee ownership, and how it can be used to build a succession plan and a tool for employee retention and business resiliency.

June 12, 2023 | In-person| East L.A.

Sell your business in East L.A. and attract and retain employees

Location: East Los Angeles Library

Discover how selling your business to your employees can be a game-changer for employee retention and business resiliency at this free in-person event.

This event is in collaboration with Bet Tzedek, a nonprofit law firm located in the heart of Los Angeles.

Joining us will be L.A.’s podcast network Maximum Fun to speak about their current transition to a worker-owned cooperative. They will talk about why they chose to do this and what this means for their business and for the employees.

June 14-15, 2023 | Virtual and in-person | Washington DC

Employee Ownership Ideas Forum

Please join us for the Employee Ownership Ideas Forum, a two-day virtual and in-person event in Washington DC on June 14 and 15, 2023. The event will bring together leading policymakers, researchers, employee-owned companies, investors, experts, and media to explore how the US can grow employee share ownership to improve the economic freedom and prosperity of American workers.

Hosted by the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program and the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing at Rutgers University,

June 20, 2023 | 11:00 AM PDT / 2:00 PM EDT

Roadmap to Black Employee Ownership

Project Equity and Morehouse College collaborated to produce two groundbreaking papers on the topic of employee ownership and its potential to address the racial wealth gap.

Join Project Equity CEO, Evan Edwards, Dr. Cynthia Hewitt, Ph.D., from Morehouse College, and Terron Ferguson, who leads Morehouse’s Black Employee Ownership Initiative partnership with Project Equity, for a virtual discussion of this work.

This event is in collaboration with Morehouse College.

July 20, 2023 | 12:00 PM PST / 3:00 PM EST

Sell your business and attract & retain employees

Join us for a free webinar to learn about employee ownership, and how it can be used to build a succession plan and a tool for employee retention and business resiliency.

Past events and webinars

2023

Succession Planning for Women-Owned Businesses | May 31

Deeper Dive on Private Company Transitions to Worker Co-ops and Financing | May 18 | Hosted by National Society of Accountants for Cooperatives (NSAC)

Sell your business and attract & retain employees | May 18

Employee Ownership 101 For Small Business Advisors | May 11 | Hosted on MyCPE.com

Succession Planning & Employee Ownership | Hosted by Marin SBDC | May 3

Employee ownership 101: Bay Area | April 27

How to sell your manufacturing business | Hosted by OMEP | February 23

Lending to Cooperative Businesses | Hosted by Shared Capital Cooperative| January 18

Employee Ownership (registration required) | California Association for Local Economic Development | January 11

Coffee Chat: Employee Ownership as an Emerging Workforce Tool (registration required)|America Works, Manufacturing Extension Partnership | January 11

2022

Transforming Business Ownership for Social Justice | ASBN 2022 Conference | December 1

Creating an economy that works for everyone | Stacey Vanek Smith, NPR, reporter and host | November 29

Private Equity and Employee Shared Ownership Symposium | Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations | November 18

Democratizing Work: The Role, Opportunities and Challenges of Worker Cooperatives in the US | Aspen Institute | November 17

Succession planning and the employee ownership solution | City of Tucson | November 8

Conversations with Employee Ownership Experts | American Sustainable Business Network | October 28

Exploring Employee Ownership: Why business owners choose it and what it could offer your company | American Sustainable Business Network |October 21

Planeando para tu negocio: Venta del Negocio y Planificacion de Sucesion | October 5 | Tucson, AZ

Growing your practice through Employee Ownership (BEI) | Sept. 28

Employee Ownership Transitions: Beyond ESOPs | Sept. 28

Makeover Montgomery 5 | Sept. 23

Employee Ownership in Atlanta, Prosperity Summit | Sept. 20

What’s next for employee ownership? | Sept. 7

State Small Business Credit Initiative and Employee Ownership | August 15

Recruit, retain, and reward employees with employee ownership | June 29

Recruit, retain, and reward employees with employee ownership | May 18

Closing the Racial Wealth Gap for Shared Prosperity (Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative) | May 4

Investing in Employee Ownership Models to Build Generational Wealth | April 21

Investing in People and Culture: Why EO= Enduring Organizations | March 31

California Cooperatives: People-centered solutions to worker empowerment, affordable home ownership and quality childcare | January 13

Employee ownership 101 for Berkeley small business owners | January 10

2021

The Employee Ownership Solution for Business Resiliency, Succession and Worker Retention (Texas) | December 2

Recruit. Retain. Reward. Retire. | November 4 | Watch recording

Building Back Better: How Investing in Employee Ownership Creates Resiliency for Workers, Businesses and Local Economies | October 20

Advancing Employee Ownership Through City Policy | Sept. 30

Ensuring Your Legacy Through Employee Ownership | Greater Washington Center for Employee Ownership | September 15

Employee Ownership San Francisco: Preserve your legacy and exit on your terms | July 13 & August 10 | Watch recording

Brokering Employee Buyout Deals: Employee ownership options for business brokers | July 13

Employee Ownership San Francisco: Preserve your legacy and exit on your terms | July 13

Employee Ownership: A Briefing for Bankers (Audience: Lenders) | June 24

Employee Ownership grows good jobs and keeps our local businesses thriving (San Francisco) | June 22

Employee Ownership: Rebuilding post pandemic (Audience: SBA staff & business Connectors) | June 23

Keep San Diego Businesses Thriving: An Employee Ownership Workshop | June 17| Watch recording

Business Owners Forum: Why I chose worker ownership for the legacy of my business (Santa Clara) | May 25 | Watch recording

Worker Owned 101: A Smart Option for Your Business Legacy (Santa Clara) | April 22 | Watch recording

Resilience through employee ownership (San Diego) | Hosted by San Diego Regional EDC | April 20

Employee ownership: A strategy for business resiliency and succession | March 25 | Watch recording

Worker Owned 101: A Smart Option for Your Business Legacy|February 25 | Watch recording

Employee Ownership Strategy: Unlocking the benefits for you and your employees|February 18 | Watch recording

2020

District Connect 2020: Cooperative Equity and Resilience |December 17, 2020

Employee ownership: an economic development solution to keep our local businesses thriving | December 10, 2020 | Watch recording

ASBC & SVC 2020: Remaking & Revitalizing the Economy | December 2, 2020

Employee ownership keeps our local businesses thriving | December 3, 2020 | Watch recording

Bay Area B Local Virtual Meetup: Demystifying Employee Ownership For B Corps | November 12, 2020

Employee ownership keeps LA businesses thriving | November 20, 2020 | Watch recording

Employee ownership keeps San Francisco’s small businesses thriving | November 18, 2020 | Watch recording

Neighborhood Economics: Healing our communities | November 18, 2020

Wisconsin Manufacturing Webinar | October 6, 2020 | Watch recording

Worker Cooperatives Panel | September 16, 2020 | Watch recording

Webinar: Rebuilding with resiliency and equity through Employee Ownership | August 20, 2020 | Watch recording

Employee Ownership 101 | August 18, 2020 | Watch recording

Reenvisioning Retail: The Future of Retail Webinar | July 24, 2020 | Watch recording

Santa Cruz Small Business Cash Flow & Succession Presentation Hosted by Santa Cruz Community Ventures | July 21, 2020

Employee ownership: A business succession strategy in challenging times | June 9, 2020 | Watch recording

Webinar: Increasing Equity in a Post-Pandemic Economy: The Potential for Growing Worker Ownership | May 19, 2020 | Watch recording

San Francisco Business Transition & Employee Ownership Forum | San Francisco, CA | January 15, 2020

2018-2019

Berkeley Business Retention Information Session | Berkeley, CA | September 30, 2019

Sell your business to your employees: A deeper dive | Eureka, CA | September 23, 2019

Accelerate Employee Ownership Launch Event | Long Beach, CA | September 5, 2019

America’s SBDC Annual Conference | Long Beach, CA | September 3-6, 2019

SFMade: Employee Ownership | San Francisco, CA | September 4, 2019

SBA Summer Small Business Supporter Meeting San Francisco SBA | San Francisco, CA | August 20, 2019

Webinar: Attract and Retain the Best Talent with Employee Ownership | June 26, 2019 | Watch recording

Sell Your Business with Employee Ownership | June 18, 2019 |Watch recording

Berkeley Business Success Forum | Berkeley, CA | June 13, 2019

San Francisco Small Business Week: Keeping the Business Going – Transition Your Business to the Next Generation Through Employee Ownership | San Francisco, CA | May 9, 2019