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Mariposa Gardening & Design – Berkeley, CA

Industry: Landscaping Location: Berkeley, California Number of employees: 10 Became employee owned: 2018 […]

September 18, 2018June 19, 2019Capital Impact Partners, Cooperative Fund of the Northeast, Democracy at Work Institute, ICA Group, Local Enterprise Assistance Fund, Shared Capital Cooperative, The Working World

NPQ – Report: Business Sales to Worker Co-ops Can Preserve over 1,000 Jobs a Year

From NPQ: Typically, when US businesses think of employee ownership, the form […]

September 11, 2018July 30, 2019Capital Impact Partners, Democracy at Work Institute, ICA Group, News

Next City – What Millions of Retiring Small Business Owners Could Mean for Cities

From Next City:  Roughly 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day in […]

August 14, 2018June 19, 2019Democracy at Work Institute, Policy, U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives

NPQ – Historic Federal Law Gives Employee-Owned Businesses Access to SBA Loans

Read full article at:  Nonprofit Quarterly As we noted in NPQ last fall, nearly […]

March 8, 2018June 19, 2019Democracy at Work Institute, News, The Working World

Beneficial State Bank – The Employee Ownership Solution to the Silver Tsunami

From Beneficial State Bank: Linda and Gregory Coles founded their preschool, A Child’s […]

July 10, 2017June 19, 2019Democracy at Work Institute, ICA Group, News, North Carolina, Project Equity, The Industrial Commons

IEDC – For Retiring Business Owners, Worker-Owners Can Carry the Torch

From the International Economic Development Council (pdf): For the busy owners of […]

June 19, 2017June 19, 2019Democracy at Work Institute, ICA Group, Maine, Massachusetts, Policy

In these Times – Retirement of Boomer Business Owners Could Leave Millions Jobless – Unless Workers Take Over

From In These Times (pdf): The federal government estimates that more than […]

March 22, 2017June 19, 2019Colorado, Democracy at Work Institute, News, Policy, Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center

Confluence – New & Next: The Strengths of Employee Ownership

Building off of these trends, the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center (RMEOC), has collaborated […]

August 10, 2016June 19, 2019Democracy at Work Institute, Project Equity, University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives

Century Foundation – Reducing Economic Inequality through Democratic Worker-Ownership

From The Century Foundation: Employee-owned companies are a specific type of for-profit […]

May 26, 2016June 19, 2019Cooperative Development Institute, Cooperative Fund of the Northeast, Democracy at Work Institute, Maine, Vermont Employee Ownership Center

Yes – As Boomers Retire, Mom-and-Pop Businesses Convert to Co-ops to Save Jobs

From Yes Magazine: Five years later, things are better for Rock City, […]

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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

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Popular Sectors

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  • Health

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  • 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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