Recent News

• Polis creates commission to fulfill promise of economy that works for all, not just wealthy April 10, 2019
• Gov. Polis signs executive order to establish commission on employee ownership April 10, 2019
• Training available for retiring business owners in Morehead April 10, 2019
• How Massachusetts is working to get retiring business owners to let their employees take over April 9, 2019
• Massachusetts Seeks to Avert Business Shutdowns by Boosting Employee Ownership April 4, 2019
• Employee ownership can save jobs, build the state’s economy April 2, 2019
• Mass. lawmakers revive effort to spur employee ownership April 2, 2019
• Colorado Says It Wants to Be the “Delaware” of Employee Ownership March 26, 2019
• Colorado launches initiative to boost employee ownership of businesses March 22, 2019
• Owners sell Save-A-Lot, Food City to employees March 20, 2019
• Common Myths about Employee Ownership March 19, 2019
• Illinois Proposal Aims To Empower Worker Co-Ops March 18, 2019
• City of Baltimore commits funding to help BRED accelerate business conversions to worker cooperatives March 18, 2019
• Colorado co-ops seeing a revival in state with strong ties to “radical tradition” March 15, 2019
• What is the Carbondale Spring? A proposed 4-point plan for Carbondale’s future March 13, 2019
• Newark Mayor Makes Employee Ownership Economic Centerpiece March 12, 2019
• Carbondale Spring plan reimagines future of city, combats climate change March 11, 2019
• Changing its tune: Downtown Sounds to become worker-owned cooperative after retirement of founder Joe Blumenthal March 8, 2019
• What if Workers Owned Their Workplaces? March 8, 2019
• Berkeley Pledges Support and Funding for Worker Co-ops March 6, 2019
• Worker Cooperative Training in Hazard March 4, 2019
• Northwest Cooperative Development Center Launches Legacy Project March 4, 2019
• Nonprofit Takes Leadership Role to Address Business Succession “Tsunami” March 1, 2019
• Keeping North Country businesses alive February 28, 2019
• Berkeley Sets the Bar for Municipal Support of Worker Cooperatives February 27, 2019
• With imagination, workers’ cooperatives can diversify economies — and build democracy February 22, 2019
• Chicago Turns to Cooperatives to Improve Opportunity February 22, 2019
• How King Arthur Flour’s Unusual Leadership Structure Is Key To Its Success January 30, 2019
• What’s an ESOP? Experts say employee stock ownership plans help keep businesses in PA January 19, 2019
• Chamber offers series on leaving a business January 10, 2019
• Detroit’s Center for Community Based Enterprise has an innovative approach to improve work culture — make employees the owners January 9, 2019
• Why There’s A Push To Grow Cooperative Businesses In Arizona January 4, 2019
• A year of change for employee-owned Gardener’s Supply December 19, 2018
• General Motors’ Factories Should Not Be Closed. They Should Be Turned Over to the Workers December 14, 2018
• R.I.’s first worker cooperative is hailed December 13, 2018
• LA Economic & Workforce Development helps transition company ownership from retiring owners to long term employees December 11, 2018
• Wild Fig Books and Coffee reborn as a cooperative December 6, 2018
• Are co-ops the business model of the future in Arizona? December 6, 2018
• Nonprofit helps employees take hold of reins as business owners retire December 3, 2018
• Down Home Capital: How Converting Businesses into Employee-Owned Enterprises Can Save Jobs and Empower Communities December 1, 2018
• Durham Considers Employee Ownership as Strategy to Preserve Black Businesses November 30, 2018
• Bank-Nonprofit Alliance Launches Worker Co-op Initiative in Miami November 30, 2018
• Can Employee Ownership Preserve Durham’s Legacy of Black Businesses? November 29, 2018
• When employees are the boss, they make more, save more and are less likely to lose their jobs November 28, 2018
• Are Cooperatives Really So Difficult to Finance? November 28, 2018
• Employee Ownership and The Promise of Quality Jobs November 19, 2018
• Durham Participates in SEED Fellowship to Promote Equitable Business Retention November 16, 2018
• John Marshall BELAW Clinic Helps Get Worker Cooperative Resolution Passed in Cook County November 14, 2018
• 3 local gov staffers are studying other cities’ coops to boost Philly’s democratic biz economy November 9, 2018
• Durham Commits to Shared Equity in Economic Development with Local Business Retention via Employee Ownership November 8, 2018
• Worker Ownership Initiative Launched by Nonprofit Lender in Nation’s Capital November 8, 2018
• Spreading the Good News of Worker-Owned Businesses in D.C. November 2, 2018
• Employee-Owned Businesses a Tool for Equitable Growth October 22, 2018
• Worker cooperatives face particular challenges in Illinois October 17, 2018
• More Home Care Agencies May Become Employee-Owned as Aging Owners Exit October 2, 2018
• Worker Co-ops Catch on in Philadelphia October 1, 2018
• New Employee Ownership Mandate for Small Business Development Centers September 25, 2018
• What Millions of Retiring Small Business Owners Could Mean for Cities September 11, 2018
• A New Push For Employee Ownership in Chicago August 31, 2018
• USDA provides grants to nonprofit to teach communities about co-ops August 28, 2018
• USA passes new law to aid business transition to worker-ownership August 16, 2018
• Small business owners are getting a new incentive to sell to their employees August 15, 2018
• Historic Federal Law Gives Employee-Owned Businesses Access to SBA Loans August 14, 2018
• Why the U.S. Needs More Worker-Owned Companies August 8, 2018
• Expanding Economic Opportunity by Growing Worker Cooperatives June 25, 2018
• Baltimore Worker Cooperative Continues Expanding and Evolving June 18, 2018
• Worker-owned co-ops: a model to build wealth for low-income communities in Chicago May 31, 2018
• Bill would help retiring business owners transfer ownership to workers March 30, 2018
• The Employee Ownership Solution to the Silver Tsunami March 8, 2018
• Nonprofits Shift Baby Boomer Businesses to Worker Ownership in Bid for Community Sustainability February 21, 2018
• Why an Increasing Number of Retiring Entrepreneurs Are Selling the Business to Their Employees February 21, 2018
• Californian City Looks To Keep Its Factories January 24, 2018
• Newark EDC – Employee Ownership January 20, 2018
• Can the Wave of Baby Boomer Entrepreneur Retirements Create a Surge of Worker-Owned Businesses January 10, 2018
• A worker-owned cooperative turns a profit November 30, 2017
• Silver Tsunami: Retirements put boomer-owned firms at risk but worker ownership can help November 12, 2017
• Winning Coffee Co. Moves Towards Becoming a Co-op November 2, 2017
• Gov. Raimondo signs legislation for workers’ co-ops October 25, 2017
• The Rose Garden becomes a worker-owned cooperative! October 22, 2017
• The Co-Op Economy in Maine October 20, 2017
• Employees to own all Buehler’s supermarkets October 19, 2017
• Employee ownership represents a fairer economic development strategy October 17, 2017
• Gov. Phil Scott signs proclamation designation October as Employee Ownership Month October 4, 2017
• Solar energy provider converts to worker­owned cooperative October 1, 2017
• Maine solar business pursues conversion to worker­owned co­op to sustain business, create more jobs October 1, 2017
• Bridging income disparity through employee-owned business structures October 1, 2017
• Impending Silver Tsunami a threat to job security October 1, 2017
• How to get more women, minorities to own manufacturing firms September 27, 2017
• Forum To Discuss Strategy For Saving Jobs When Small Businesses Close September 26, 2017
• Worker co-op bill being heard in Senate, could this model work for Benny’s? September 18, 2017
• Sen. Baldwin Looks To Boost Employee Ownership Of Companies September 8, 2017
• Unions and Worker Co-ops, Old Allies, Are Joining Forces Again September 5, 2017
• South Bay Pizzeria Slices Up Its Ownership, Cuts Employees In August 18, 2017
• San Jose Pizza Shop Deals Employees a Slice of the Action August 18, 2017
• Baby Boomer Owned Businesses in Transition August 10, 2017
• Santa Ana Officials Endorse Worker-Owned Businesses and Declare Intent to Support Them August 7, 2017
• For Retiring Business Owners, Worker-Owners Can Carry the Torch July 10, 2017
• Let’s Cooperate! How A-1 Builders Owners Successfully Sold to the Most Qualified Buyers: Their Employees July 6, 2017
• Greenfield’s Ewing Controls invests in itself as it takes on international projects June 29, 2017
• A longtime Bellingham business is leaving something of value to workers – ownership June 23, 2017