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Sun Light & Power – Berkeley, CA

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

August 31, 2018July 23, 2019Illinois, News

A New Push For Employee Ownership in Chicago

From Forbes: Social entrepreneurs interested in ESOPs and worker owned cooperatives: Take […]

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 […]

New Frameworks, Winooski VT

At a glance Location: Winooski, VT Industry: Construction Number of employees: 7 Conversion […]

New Prairie Construction – Urbana, IL

New Prairie Construction is a 25-employee general contractor in Urbana, Illinois, with […]

Mujeres Emprendedoras Cooperative – Denver, CO

Location: Denver, Colorado Industry:  Food and Beverage Number of employees: 12 Became […]

June 25, 2018November 11, 2019Maryland, News

Nonprofit Quarterly – Expanding Economic Opportunity by Growing Worker Cooperatives

From Nonprofit Quarterly: The worker cooperative—a democratic form of business ownership—has struggled […]

June 18, 2018November 11, 2019Maryland, News

Next City – Baltimore Worker Cooperative Continues Expanding and Evolving

From Next City: It was a real struggle for Red Emma’s the […]

May 31, 2018March 5, 2019Illinois, News

Worker-owned co-ops: a model to build wealth for low-income communities in Chicago

From the Chicago Reporter: Because of its historically tough political and economic […]

May 25, 2018June 19, 2019Cooperative Fund of the Northeast, Rhode Island

Uprise RI – Local worker ownership an opportunity for Rhode Island

From Uprise RI: The “silver tsunami” of baby-boomer retirements is coming. According […]

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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?

  • What are Some Examples of Employee Owned Small Businesses?

  • Multi-stakeholder Cooperatives

  • 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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