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New School of Montpelier – Montpelier, VT

The New School of Montpelier is 45-employee worker cooperative school that serves […]

November 12, 2014June 19, 2019Cooperative Development Institute, Cooperative Fund of the Northeast, Maine

Pacific Standard – Buying Out Your Boss: Worker Cooperatives Are the Future of Small Business

From the Pacific Standard:  The recent Market Basket strike — 25,000 employees from 71 […]

Island Employee Cooperative – Deer Isle, ME

Island Employee Cooperative is a 70-employee worker cooperative on Deer Isle in […]

A Yard and a Half Landscaping Cooperative – Waltham, MA

In January 2014, 11 worker-owners took over the operations of A Yard […]

Real Pickles – Greenfield, MA

Real Pickles is a Massachusetts-based company that makes pickles from regionally grown […]

Catamount Solar- Randolph, VT

Industry: Solar Location: Randolph, Vermont Number of employees: 11 Became employee owned: […]

Local Sprouts – Portland, ME

This business closed in 2019. Industry: Food and Beverage Location: Portland, Maine Number […]

Warrenstreet Architects – Concord, NH

Industry: Architecture Location: Concord, New Hampshire Number of employees: 12 Became employee owned: […]

Green Mountain Spinnery – Putney, VT

Industry: Manufacturing Location: Putney, Vermont Number of employees: 12 Became employee owned: […]

Collective Copies – Florence, MA

Industry: Printing Location: Boston, Massachusetts Number of employees: 11 Became employee owned: 1983 […]

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Worker Cooperative Policy Supports

Resources for the SBA and Main Street Employee Ownership Act

Financing Case Studies

Resources for Rural Employee Ownership

Popular Company Stories

  • The Brooklyn Packers – Brooklyn, NY

  • Metis Construction – Seattle, WA

  • A Yard and a Half Landscaping Cooperative – Waltham, MA

  • New School of Montpelier – Montpelier, VT

  • Brooklyn Stone and Tile, Brooklyn NY

  • A Child’s Place – Queens, NY

  • ChiFresh Kitchen – Chicago, IL

  • Opportunity Threads – Morganton, NC

  • Earth Designs Cooperative – Rosendale, NY

  • Once Again Nut Butter – Nunda, NY

Popular Pages

  • Worker Cooperative LLCs

  • What are the Stages of a Transition to Employee Ownership for a Small Business?

  • How are Small Business Employee Ownership Transitions Financed?

  • How Does Small Business Employee Ownership Work?

  • How Do I Create an Ownership Culture Among Employees?

  • What is Small Business Employee Ownership?

  • What are the Benefits of Employee Ownership?

  • Multi-stakeholder Cooperatives

  • What are Some Examples of Employee Owned Small Businesses?

  • Which Small Business Sectors Have Concentrations of Employee Ownership?

Popular Places

  • California

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  • Florida

  • Illinois

  • Colorado

  • Maryland

  • Virginia

  • Wisconsin

  • Ohio

  • New York

Popular Sectors

  • Farming

  • Food and Beverage

  • Manufacturing

  • Construction

  • Tech

  • Childcare

  • Health

  • Grocery

  • Cleaning

  • Landscaping

Becoming Employee Owned is an initiative of the Democracy at Work Institute.

Our mission is to expand the worker cooperative model to reach communities most directly affected by social and economic inequality, specifically people of color, recent immigrants, and low-­wage workforces. We are a movement-based think-and-do tank supporting worker cooperatives to grow to a scale that creates meaningful change in the economy.

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