#codeweavers is built on #employeeownership

Amazing to see them stay dedicated to the community!

Could #EmployeeOwnership Help Narrow the #Racial #WealthGap?
https://geo.coop/gleanings/could-employee-ownership-help-narrow-racial-wealth-gap

Registration is live for our 2023 Vermont Employee Ownership Conference! If you're in or near #Vermont and have an interest in #WorkerCoops, #ESOPs, #EOTs, or #EmployeeOwnership in general, join us at UVM on Thursday, June 1!

Register here: https://veoc.org/21st-annual-vermont-employee-ownership-conference

Once everyone's a Boss, there's only one leap left to make.

https://gibbsandpartners.com/blog/2023/03/giant-leap/

Discipline makes Daring possible #customerexperiencescore #employeeownership #thedisappearingboss

This is a great compilation of #EmployeeOwnership "A-ha Moments" from advocates at state centers like VEOC, featuring our ED, @mattcropp, and other champions of the EO movement in the US.

https://www.theesoppodcast.com/post/234-eo-a-ha-moments-volume-iii?fbclid=IwAR3l9-G-RiSrm4EZDwvczoDd_KNXRbdbjanMh0SwYujICNLxASOrtnNPChQ

We're honored to have Derek Peebles, Senior Director of Policy and Advocacy, Inclusive Economy of the American Sustainable Business Network, deliver this year's morning plenary session. Derek's work situates #EmployeeOwnership within the context of strengthening place-based finance and promoting restorative investments in local economies.

We've set the date for our annual Vermont #EmployeeOwnership Conference! This is our biggest outreach and education event of the year, drawing more than 200 professionals, #EmployeeOwners, and business owners from around #Vermont and beyond.

The conference is Thursday, June 1, at UVM's Davis Center in Burlington.

RSVP: https://veoc.org/21st-annual-vermont-employee-ownership-conference

#VT #ESOPs #cooperatives #Coops
#VTBiz

Very cool PhD position that I can recommend to anyone interested in studying #workercoops, #workplacedemocracy, #employeeownership and #employeeparticipation!
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RT @matthijsbpunt
Together with @tvaskela, I am looking for a motivated #PhD candidate to study how worker cooperatives create and manage strategic resources at the University of Helsinki @helsinkiuni, including a research visit to us at @UUCopernicus.

https://tinyurl.com/…
https://twitter.com/matthijsbpunt/status/1623662290028400642

We're accepting applications for our 2023 summer internship through Feb. 10! This part-time, paid position includes helping out with our big annual conference in June, updating a survey of #Vermont #EmployeeOwned companies, making a report of the survey results, and a few other fun duties.

Please share the full details with anyone you know who may be interested: http://veoc.org/veoc-program-research-intern-summer-2023

#VT #EmployeeOwnership #ESOPs #cooperatives #Coops

Whilst a lot of the trends in the UK are pretty gloomy at the moment, one positive trend is the increase in businesses moving to #EmployeeOwnership.

That said, there are still many business owners who either aren't aware of this alternative exit route or they'll have misconceptions about how these work.

Therefore, in the below blog, a colleague and I explain how this model works including the advantages and misconceptions:

https://www.uhy-uk.com/insights/eots-advantages-misconceptions-employee-ownership

Exciting news on the #USpol front for #employeeownership. A bill that #BernieSanders has quixotically proposed for years, called The WORK Act, that funds the creation and expansion of state-level employee ownership centers finally made it into the big omnibus budget bill that looks like it's on track to pass.

It would allocate $50MM over 5 years, which would allow for many states to have folks doing dedicated outreach and education about #workercoops and #ESOPs for the first time.

Just saw the news that #GardenersSupply founder #WillRaap recently passed away at 73. Gardener's is definitely one of Vermont's "flagship" #EmployeeOwned companies, and Will started the process very early in the company's life.

To get a taste of Will's early involvedment in #EmployeeOwnership check out this video of Will speaking at the "Progressive Entrepreneurship Forum" organized by then #BTV Mayor #BernieSanders in 1985: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTpmcJCAGn8

#ESOP #Vermont #VT #VTBiz

@dawnatella holy cow these ideas exactly, bloomed in my brain -as it happened- when I got to #anandgiridharadas uninspired disappointing conclusion to #winnerstakeall - eg, defeat #carnegie -ism by turning back to centralized wealth redistribution. Blecch, & dumb, because the oligarch’s lobbyists will always beat us at that game. Nope, thought I, the answer is #employeeownership , a moment which has since landed me in the #cooperative #multistakeholder #capitalism #defi camps!

Some helpful links in this brief article from the National Center for Employee Ownership, referencing our new database:

Employee Ownership Trusts in the News https://www.nceo.org/employee-ownership-blog/employee-ownership-trusts-news

#EmployeeOwnership #WorkplaceDemocracy

We're sad to learn that Bruce Seifer recently passed away. Bruce was intimately involved in the founding of VEOC and served on our board for a number of years.

He was a consistently strong advocate of #EmployeeOwnership going back to when he worked in Community #EconomicDevelopment under then-Mayor #BernieSanders in #BTV in the 1980s, and he leaves a profound legacy in #Vermont.

Many of the lessons he gleaned are shared in the book Sustainable Communities:

https://www.routledge.com/Sustainable-Communities-Creating-a-Durable-Local-Economy/Phillips-Seifer-Antczak/p/book/9780415820172

We're sad to learn that Bruce Siefer recently passed away. Bruce was intimately involved in the founding of VEOC and served on our board for a number of years.

He was a consistently strong advocate of #EmployeeOwnership going back to when he worked in Community #EconomicDevelopment under then-Mayor #BernieSanders in #BTV in the 1980s, and he leaves a profound legacy in #Vermont.

We released a new dataset today, and it got picked up for a feature by Impact Alpha! It includes all of the Perpetual Purpose Trusts and #EmployeeOwnership Trusts in the United States we could identify. I'd welcome chatting with anyone interested--do us a favor and tag folks you think might be?

Article
https://impactalpha.com/through-ownership-trusts-investors-can-help-employees-become-owners-and-owners-retire/

Database
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/EYGHCW

Thinking that we should do something to organize the migration of #employeeownership folks to the fedi in a manner similar to what the historians have done: https://social.coop/@konrad/109395427605279069

@Lorenrodgers @ryanthornton @momanklang

Patagonia's recent ownership transition has received a lot of attention, but it should be seen as part of a much bigger wave of companies rethinking who should benefit most from profits.

From CNBC this weekend:

"B-Corp status, #EmployeeOwnership, and mutual organizations and #cooperatives are all models that allow more focus on creating stakeholder value, in addition to shareholder value.

'We are seeing significant growth in these alternative models,' Whelan said."

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/20/is-patagonia-the-end-game-for-profits-in-a-world-of-climate-change.html

Are you thinking about #employeeownership for your company? If you're exploring the feasibility of an #ESOP, one of the most consequential decisions you will make is deciding who will be the point person for the transaction -- the "quarterback." #NCEO members can join our Tuesday webinar series on Nov 22 to hear from the experts about choosing the right quarterback.
https://www.nceo.org/webinar/working-esop-transaction-quarterback