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ESOPs

Employee Stock Ownership Programs, which provide employees of a business with a portion of the ownership of that business' publicly-traded stock.

November 11, 2024

Adapting employee ownership for truly democratic businesses

There is widespread agreement on the need for a bold economic development strategy aimed at realigning the interests of business with those of local communities. Less clear is what precisely needs to be done. We argue that an effective way to achieve this goal is by decommodifying business ownership through the democratisation of private companies.

January 22, 2024

Transform Finance: An Interview with Curt Lyon

Transform Finance Executive Director Curt Lyon talks with Jim, Matt, and Josh about their work educating investors about ways to support businesses with a focus on worker empowerment.

June 14, 2021

The Government Is Here to Help Small Businesses — Unless They’re Cooperatives

The Small Business Administration’s rules prevent it from helping most employee- and consumer-owned cooperatives, even though Congress specifically asked it to.

December 21, 2020

All About Employee Ownership Centers

Matt Cropp, Co-Executive Director of the Vermont Employee Ownership Center, talks with Steve Herrick about the history of the EOCs and the work that VEOC does with worker co-ops and ESOPs.