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Mariposa Gardening & Design – Berkeley, CA

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

September 29, 2018June 19, 2019Center for Community Based Enterprise, News

Detroit Metro Times – Shoemaker Pingree Detroit employs vets to make the first sneakers manufactured in the Motor City

From the Detroit Metro Times Perhaps most important, though, veterans like Ryan […]

September 25, 2018June 19, 2019Cooperation Buffalo, New York, News, SBA

Fifty by Fifty – New Employee Ownership Mandate for Small Business Development Centers

From Fifty by Fifty: Fifty by Fifty recently spoke to Andrew Delmonte, […]

September 24, 2018June 19, 2019Concerned Capital

Concerned Capital – Employees Purchase Ariza Cheese, LA’s oldest manufacturer of Artisan Mexican Cheese

From Concerned Capital: Paramount, California — January 28, 2015 — Ariza Cheese Company, Inc. has been […]

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 […]

Sun Light & Power – Berkeley, CA

Industry: Solar Location: California Number of employees: 80 Became employee owned: 2018 […]

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 […]

September 11, 2018June 19, 2019Capital Impact Partners, ICA Group, News

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

From NPQ: “Baby Boomers own the majority of small businesses,” notes Oscar […]

August 28, 2018June 19, 2019News, Northwest Cooperative Development Center, Oregon

The World – USDA provides grants to nonprofit to teach communities about co-ops

From The World: By the year 2024, everyone from the Baby Boomer […]

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 […]

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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

  • California

  • Washington

  • Florida

  • Illinois

  • Colorado

  • Maryland

  • Virginia

  • Wisconsin

  • New York

  • Ohio

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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