Welcome Back!
We hope you had a great Valentine’s Day 💕
One Big Thing
Registration is open for the one-day convening in DC on purpose trusts that EO+WD is co-hosting with Project Equity and Purpose Owned. We’ll be at the Aspen Institute offices the day after the Employee Ownership Ideas Forum in April.
If you’re actively working to help business owners convert to purpose trusts and/or in building the field(s) of steward ownership and purpose trust ownership, join us! Email Dr. Hand for all more details.
What We’ve Been Writing
Dr. Hand follows up with what a workplace democracy index would include
Tiffany covers a story about a bakery cafe that closed down but was reopened by its employees
Alejandro writes about ESOPs and the silver tsunami
What We’ve Been Reading
This article covers some major news from the UK on the regulation of EOTs
The Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing announces the appointment of 33 research fellows to join its global network of scholars
This Forbes article centers around employee ownership as an exit strategy
In Case You Missed It
Earlier this month some of our EO+WD contributors worked together to discuss All the Things That Might be Workplace Democracy
The Employee Ownership + Workplace Democracy Research Cluster (EO+WD) is a joint project of UT-Arlington professor Mark C. Hand and students at UTA and SMU