Over the next decade, engaging and activating policymakers to advance employee ownership will be key to addressing income, wealth and racial inequality at scale.
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A Job Quality Agenda for the Next Administration was written by The Aspen Institute Job Quality Fellows urging policymakers to build an agenda for economic recovery focused on job quality and economic inclusion.
The City of Santa Clara launched an initiative to assist locally-owned businesses that are at risk of closure to learn about the option of employee ownership.
“The beauty of the cooperative model is it involves everybody. It allows everyone to feel vested in the success of the business.” Lars Ortegren, founder and former owner of California Solar Electric Company Project Equity was proud to assist California Solar Electric Company located in Grass Valley, CA, with its transition to employee ownership in
2021 is a new year, and a great time to make a resolution to focus on succession planning.
Employee-owned companies have protected their workers’ jobs four times better than other firms and suffered fewer cuts to hours and pay during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study.
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 Aziz, from CitywideYouth Development in Baltimore, was invited to highlight our work with cities to help them identify and mitigate the
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“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.”
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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 in the growth of the California Center for Employee Ownership and its influence across California. Joining the
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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 ownership and updates the SBA’s lending practices to support the process. Project Equity was pleased to support this bipartisan
