🍂 EO+WD Newsletter, Vol. 28
New purpose trusts, upcoming events, and the power of co-ops
Welcome Back
And happy fall!
What We’ve Been Writing
Dr. Hand provides a starting point (and some great links!) for learning more about perpetual purpose trusts
Our newest contributor, SMU student Advika Raj, shares her first post on how cooperatives do (and don’t) promote gender equity
Tiffany covers three (!) new purpose trusts: Vernier Science Education, Breaking Ground, and Walker Group
What We’ve Been Reading
Check out why employee ownership could be key to solving the retirement fund crisis in the United States
Corey Rosen from the National Center for Employee Ownership shares simple ways to encourage greater employee participation
Patagonia CEO Ryan Gellert shares why he thinks the company’s biggest impact “has been modeling a different way of doing business”
Read why being a socially conscious business isn’t just good for the community, but for a firm’s bottom line as well
What’s Next
Dr. Hand will be speaking at two events this month:
The Aspen Institute’s Economic Opportunities Program is hosting a virtual forum on Sustaining Ownership: The Promise of Employee Ownership Trusts
Closer to (our) home, Social Ventures Partners of Dallas has invited Dr. Hand to speak on employee ownership and workplace democracy
The Wisconsin Center for Employee Ownership and UW Center for Cooperatives are co-hosting a free webinar on how to convert existing community firms to employee owned companies
In Case You Missed It
Last week Reid covered what exactly makes a firm a “zebra”
Check out a report (from 2019) on trends surrounding steward ownership in the United States
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