Nationally, employee-owners’ median household wealth is 92% higher than average, they receive 33% more income from wages, and their job tenure is over 50% longer
Celebrate October employee ownership and coop month! Read More »
At this summer’s Economic Security Summit, Project Equity’s Co-founder, Hilary Abell represented our successes in connecting work and wealth through employee ownership. Our partners at The Industrial Commons were highlighted at The Aspen Ideas Festival
Our summer at the Aspen Institute Read More »
As communities across the nation help business owners plan for succession, they realize the tremendous power employee ownership has to keep their companies locally-rooted. This summer Project Equity’s Co-founder, Hilary Abell, visited Communities Unlimited (CU) in Little Rock, Arkansas
Empowering regional partners Read More »
This summer, Project Equity helped the employees complete their purchase of Niles Pie Comany, a growing bakery and cafe in Union City, CA. On August 12th Niles Pie threw their community a big party, and the turnout was fantastic.
Community engagement Read More »
This year we celebrated our third anniversary and launched a new website loaded with powerful resources. Our recent media blitz has significantly increased interest in employee ownership and client engagements. Here are some of the stellar people behind this work. This summer we added two brilliant summer interns, Hans Falck (left) and Lola Liu (right) pictured above with Patty Viáfara, our Client Services Manager. Hans graduates
2017 summer interns Read More »
In the summer of 2017, Project Equity helped employees purchase Niles Pie, a bakery and cafe in Union City, CA and A Slice of New York, a pizza restaurant with locations in San Jose and Sunnyvale. Each owner (Kirk Vartan pictured above left and Carolyn Berke, right) are staying on and joining the new worker-owners in each
SF Bay area’s newest cooperatives Read More »
Independently owned and operated businesses are the lifeblood of our local economies. With 10,000 baby boomers retiring every day in the United States, a significant portion of privately-owned businesses will change hands or permanently close, putting 1 in 6 jobs at risk. Our local business landscape is about to go through a dramatic shift. The
Why 1 in 6 jobs are at risk Read More »
We’re honored that, for the second year in a row, Capital Impact Partners selected our organization for this prestigious award! The following is reprinted from Capital Impact Partners’ website. Arlington, VA (May 3, 2017) – Capital Impact Partners announced today that it has awarded grants totaling $50,000 to Project Equity and the Food Co-op Initiative, co-winners of its
Project Equity receives the 2017 Coop Innovation Award Read More »
In July of 2016, our co-founder, Alison Lingane, was honored to be invited, along with U.S. credit union executives and field builders, to visit Mondragon, one of the world’s largest federations of cooperatives, in the Basque region of Spain. The trip was spearheaded by the National Cooperative Bank and organized by Michael Peck of 1worker1vote.org. Back in the U.S. in August,
In June of 2016 we had the honor of facilitating a Think Tank Day in Morganton, NC, hosted by Western Piedmont Community College and Molly Hemstreet, founder of Opportunity Threads. The goal of this event was to initiate a plan and map the regional assets that could help create a corridor of colleges working together
Think Tank Day: North Carolina Read More »
