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Opportunity Knocking: Impact Capital as the Transformative Agent to Take Employee Ownership to Scale

Jessica Rose, Karen Kahn, Marjorie Kelly, Michelle Camou, Sarah Stranahan | January, 2021

This paper proposes that impact investors and other capital providers could catalyze employee ownership buyouts. Impact capital could become the lever used to redirect wealth into the hands of working Americans, creating a more just and equitable economy that is more resilient against future shocks. Investments in employee ownership buyouts could offer attractive midrange returns, … Read More

Mission-Led Employee-Owned Firms: The Best of the Best

Marjorie Kelly, Sarah Stranahan | January, 2019

Mission-led employee-owned firms embody a powerful model of enterprise design for a new era of environmental sustainability and social equity. These companies have much to teach the business world about ownership design for the 21st century and beyond. This report shares the story of this emerging model, embodied in 50-plus firms that are employee owned … Read More