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View new videos on the topic of employee ownership, including profiles of employee-owned companies, documentary films, and interviews with leading researchers on employee ownership affiliated with the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing at Rutgers University’s School of Management and Labor Relations, below.

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Employee Ownership Online Education Program

April, 2022

This free video-based educational program is designed to help minority business owners learn about employee ownership strategies for business succession planning. Developed by the Rutgers University NJ/NY Center for Employee Ownership, with the support of the Kellogg Foundation, this program will help business owners assess the relevance of establishing one of two employee ownership models, based … Read More

Equity 101

Carta | March, 2022

Carta’s Equity 101 is a free, interactive course designed to help everyone learn the fundamentals of equity. The course breaks down the basics of equity into 10 interactive lessons, covering the fundamentals including receiving a grant, selling shares, and taxation. In about an hour, users can learn basic terms and useful information, beginning from the … Read More

Ownership at Work: A Discussion on Designing and Growing Employee Ownership

Chris Van Hollen, Frank Lindsey, Gina Schaefer, Jeanne K. Wardford, Jennifer Briggs, Todd Leverette | October, 2022

We continue to fail to adequately compensate most essential workers even as corporate profits remain high and wealth inequality and race and gender wealth gaps persist. Employee ownership has continued to emerge against this backdrop and across party lines as a potential strategy for building an economy where prosperity is more equitably shared. Awareness about … Read More

We Are Owners

EA Engineering | August, 2020

EA is a 100% employee-owned public benefit corporation that provides environmental, compliance, natural resources, and infrastructure engineering and management solutions to a wide range of public and private sector clients. Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, EA employs more than 500 professionals through a network of 25 commercial offices across the continental United States, as well … Read More

Own It: A Colorado Story

Colorado Employee Ownership Center, Colorado Office of Film Television and Media | May, 2021

The Colorado Employee Ownership Office (EOO) in collaboration with the Colorado Office of Film, Television and Media (COFTM) has developed a documentary following the employee ownership journeys of five Colorado companies. “Own It: A Colorado Story” follows five Colorado-based companies that have transformed the fabric of their communities – and the lives of their workers … Read More

A Cooperative Story N° 8 Up & Go, New York, USA

January, 2020

Up & Go is a digital platform where people can book cleaning services. It is also a cooperative owned by worker-owned cleaning cooperatives. This video includes voices of immigrant worker-owners, and reflections about the importance of organizing workers in the digital gig “platform economy.”  

National Van Lines, Inc.

Mary Josephs | January, 2020

How National Van Lines retained its culture and success through employee ownership, guided by the ESOP advisory services of Verit Advisors.

Mini Film from We the Owners: Employees Expanding the American Dream

Foundation for Enterprise Development, Passage Productions, The National Center for Employee Ownership | June, 2013

We the Owners: Employees Expanding the American Dream is a documentary from the Foundation for Enterprise Development that follows three companies of different sizes in different industries and regions (New Belgium Brewing, Namaste Solar, and DPR Construction) that use employee ownership in diverse ways (an ESOP, a worker cooperative, and a phantom stock plan respectively). … Read More