Governance Structures Missing in Martin Whittaker's Vision of a moral form of #capitalism. Formal #CorpGov mechanisms are needed for voice & impact. https://www.corpgov.net/2026/01/governance-structures-missing-in-whittakers-vision/ #ESG #Stakeholders #ESOPs #employeeownership Also posted a new song: "A Seat at the Table," as well as link to music catalog, including "All the Brains in the Room" #stakeholders #ESG #workers #employees #ESOPs
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Special Shareholder Meetings Rights Needed at over 500 identified companies https://www.corpgov.net/2025/12/special-meetings-become-an-advocate/ How and where to file. Become an Advocate series also covers Declassify Boards, Proxy Access #corpgov #ESG #Democracy #DEI #climate #ESOPs #inequality https://www.corpgov.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Special-Meetings_-Our-Right-to-be-Heard.mp3
Discover how Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) are revolutionizing business succession, creating wealth for workers and preserving company culture across diverse industries. A win-win model for business owners and employees. #ESOPs #BusinessInnovation
The #Vermont #EmployeeOwnership Conference is coming up on May 31 in Burlington #VT. It's the largest annual gathering of folks from local #WorkerCoops, #ESOP companies, and folks considering broad-based employee-ownership, and will be keynoted by Melissa Hoover of the Democracy at Work Institute.
Registration is here, and DM me if cost is a barrier, as we are happy to offer discounted tix.
Registration is live for our 2024 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 Friday, May 31!
Register here: https://whova.com/portal/registration/veoc_202406/
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
The conference includes four tracks comprising 19 workshops for newcomers who have a business they are interested in selling to their employees, employee owners at #Vermont #ESOPs, member owners of #WorkerCoops, and #EconomicDevelopment professionals.
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
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
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.
#EmployeeOwnership is a term that covers business models with some overlap but also some key differences from one another.
#Vermont is interesting because it has a lot of well-established #ESOPs AND #WorkerCoops relative to its population, but we often find that people are more familiar with one or the other.
Which EO model are you most familiar with?
Really inspiring discussion on #EmployeeOwnership as an alternative to investor-owned companies (and all of the problems they've brought us) with three guys who've dedicated unreal amounts of time and energy to creating more #ESOPs and #WorkerCoops.
https://www.ownertoownerpodcast.com/post/o2o-ep-29-the-eo-state-centers
Hello all!
We're the #Vermont #EmployeeOwnership Center headquartered in #BTV.
Our mission is to promote #EmployeeOwned business models like #WorkerCoops and #ESOPs while strengthening ties among #VT's many existing #EO companies.
We're all about #cooperation, broad ownership of wealth, #economicjustice, #economicdemocracy, and thriving egalitarian communities.
Video of the recent "Investing in Place Based Ownership" panel I helped organize: https://youtu.be/TuZ6wv20_9U
Covers #ESOPs, #coops, and #PurposeTrusts.
Really good article by Sion Whellens about the difference between #Coops and #ESOPs and why conflating the two just wastes the time and energy of those working for a new economic system.
https://bethnalbling.blogspot.com/2020/04/commons-v-shares-problem-with-worker.html
Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard answers a question from @mattcropp on the differences between #ESOPs and #WorkerCoops :
An open letter to the owners of the @denverpost about the future of the paper, from @rmeocenter:
http://geo.coop/content/open-letter-about-future-ownership-denver-post
#ESOPs #Coops
@GuerillaOntologist @tbeckett My org (the Vermont Employee Ownership Center) works with both #workercoops and #ESOPs, so I've definitely given this some thought. The two structures seem to be based on two distinct ideological positions: #EconomicDemocracy and #SharedCapitalism, respectively. Got into some good discussion on the nuances of their overlaps and differences with @ntnsndr and others at the recent #KelsoWorkshop.
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