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.
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
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
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
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
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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
The BALLE Local Economy Fellows are leaders with fierce love for their communities – a love that they’re each putting to work in ways that bring equity, opportunity, capital, and support to small local businesses and the diverse populations in every community they serve. They represent some of the most innovative local economic and community development
The Cooperative Growth Ecosystem framework encourages diverse stakeholders in the field of community economic development to invest in inclusive economic development by fostering cooperatively owned enterprises within a broader entrepreneurial “ecosystem.”
TS Designs, in Burlington NC, reinvented itself in the 1990s, from a T-shirt manufacturer printing for big apparel brands, to an apparel printing company that brings its own T-shirts to market with a transparent and local supply chain and cutting edge eco-friendly screen-printing. North Carolina’s first Certified B Corporation, TS Designs partners with local environmentally-
