EO+WD Newsletter Vol. 25
This week we cover everything from EOTs in Australia to the fight to save America's first brewery
Welcome Back!
Happy Friday and please enjoy this week’s hand-curated links:
What We’ve Been WritingÂ
Dr. Hand covers Americans’ distrust of public institutions and what can be done to change it, and points readers to the Rutgers’ library of employee ownership
Tiffany provides an update on the employee fight to save Anchor Steam Brewing in San FranciscoÂ
Megan covers EOTs as a solution to succession woes in AustraliaÂ
What We’ve Been ReadingÂ
Jack Moriarty, one of the founders of Ownership America, is bringing his expertise and policy organization under the Lafayette Square Foundation as their new Executive Director
Common Trust, a group offering an employee ownership buyout option to small businesses, raised more than $2.6 million in seed funding
The CEO of Project Equity published an article in Forbes on ways to reimagine the workplace through shared ownershipÂ
Check out this update on the IRS crackdown on ESOPs and why it doesn’t signal the end for shared ownership
What’s NextÂ
The National Center for Employee Ownership is hosting an EOT gathering next Thursday, September 21st - look forward to some EO+WD updates followingÂ
In Case You Missed ItÂ
We are now posting daily notes on EO+WD. Be sure to check them out if you haven’t!
The Employee Ownership + Workplace Democracy Research Cluster (EO+WD) is a joint project of UT-Arlington professor Mark Hand and students at UTA and SMU.