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Taharka Brothers- Baltimore, MD

Industry: Food and Beverage Location: Baltimore,  Maryland Number of employees: 6 Became […]

November 13, 2019December 3, 2019Fund for Employee Ownership, News, The Working World

Impact Alpha – Leveraged buyout funds help businesses convert to worker-ownership

From Impact Alpha: The widening wealth gap has sparked interest in worker […]

April 9, 2019June 19, 2019ICA Group, Massachusetts, News, Policy, The Working World

Fast Company – How Massachusetts is working to get retiring business owners to let their employees take over

From Fast Company: Massachusetts wants to nudge these business owners toward another […]

L&S Printing – Queens, NY

Industry: Printing Location: Queens, New York Number of employees: 4 Became employee owned: […]

Random Harvest Market – Craryville, NY

Location: Craryville, New York Industry: Grocery Number of employees: 5 Became employee owned: […]

December 6, 2018June 19, 2019Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative, The Working World

NPQ – A National Worker Co-op Financing Network Emerges

From NPQ: “In 2017, Minnesota was named the second-most unequal state for Black […]

December 4, 2018November 8, 2019Minnesota, North Carolina, The Working World

Yes – The Co-op That’s Keeping Community Money Out of Big Banks

From Yes! Magazine: The Financial Cooperative calls its task “nonextractive” or “regenerative […]

December 4, 2018June 19, 2019Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative, The Working World

Yes – The Co-op That’s Keeping Community Money Out of Big Banks

From Yes Magazine: Connelly’s credit union is part of a strategy by […]

November 28, 2018June 19, 2019Capital Impact Partners, Cooperative Development Institute, Cooperative Fund of the Northeast, ICA Group, Local Enterprise Assistance Fund, Massachusetts, Shared Capital Cooperative, The Working World, Vermont Employee Ownership Center

Fifty by Fifty – Are Cooperatives Really So Difficult to Finance?

From Fifty by Fifty: Since 2012, CFNE has financed 15 co-op conversions […]

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 […]

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Worker Cooperative Policy Supports

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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

  • 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.

Learn more at www.institute.coop

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