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Employee Ownership Culture and Organizational Change Q&A

How does employee ownership and workplace democracy really work. Here are 6 questions a set of company leaders are asking as they transition their company from one Founder, CEO and owner to something that a large group of the employees own. They’re nervous. Are there clear answers? What concepts will help them?

The U.S. Shared Ownership Landscape:14 Cooperative Funds You Can Invest In

Pioneering Alternative Ownership Fund Mangers

In the next few weeks, Elizabeth Garlow and I will be releasing our first report under our new Francesco Collaborative banner. The report distills the insights from our Livable Future Investing workshop we facilitated a few months ago with 25 leading Catholic asset holders. For me, the release of this report marks the beginning of […]

4 Co-ops and 3 Funds Leading the US Cooperative Landscape

The US Cooperative & Shared Ownership Landscape Watch 2.5-min video narration & explanation of this map.  With the deleterious impacts of shareholder supremacy increasingly apparent, cooperatives offer a stakeholder-owned firm model. Co-ops have achieved meaningful market penetration in a few areas:  multi-family housing (25% are co-ops), credit unions (hold 10% of household savings), rural electric […]