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EO+WD Weekend Newsletter, Vol. 47
Welcome Back!
We hope you have been enjoying the first few days of spring! Happy Easter, Ramadan, Holi, Purim, and your other spring holidays.
What We’ve Been Working On
This month, EO+WD and our partners at Project Equity and Purpose Owned are excited to host our first in-person event in Washington, D.C. following the Employee Ownership Ideas Forum. Reach out to Dr. Hand for more details, and thanks to our Planning Committee for their support!
Dr. Hand also joined the board of the Texas Center for Employee Ownership this week. Formal announcement coming soon—watch this space
Keep an eye out, too, for policy recommendations on purpose trusts, coming at you next month from EO+WD and our partners at Common Trust
Dr. Hand recently published an article on the role of policy narrators during a crisis. The article was featured last week on the Policy Studies Journal blog
What We’ve Been Writing
Tiffany summarizes insights from EO expert Jason Wiener and pulls from case studies to discuss the challenges of EO
Dr. Hand covers how a organizational overhaul at a giant pharmaceutical gives off a strong whiff of workplace democracy
What We’ve Been Reading
Employee ownership gets a shout-out Felix Salmon from Axios Markets
In Forbes, Michael Zakari’s from Ashoka asks what it will take to build an ownership economy
WashU professor Peter Boumgarden’s first ownership podcast is up! It includes Ari Weinzweig talking about Zingerman’s purpose trust ownership
Transform Finance’s next webinar, Investing in Alternative Ownership Enterprise Funds: Insights from Investors, is Wednesday, April 3rd
Members of the US House have proposed legislation that aims to accelerate the creation of worker co-ops
Check out the Aspen Institute-funded new playbook from Charter on how to create more democratic workplaces
Author Elizabeth Anderson explains why workers need more autonomy over their lives and jobs
Progressive activist Alex Han ponders whether unions can help save democracy, while Anthony Annett considers the role of the Catholic Church
The Minnesota Center for Employee Ownership posted data about the expected rate of retirements in the state
In Greece, the Hellenic Initiative (THI) “has helped launch Stewards, a Greek non-profit entity that aids organizations to adopt ground-breaking ‘steward-ownership’ governing structures.”
Dr. Hand is also reading about democracy this week/end, including On Democracy, On Tyranny, The Shortest History of Democracy, Tyranny of the Minority, and Democracy at Work
What’s Next
The National Center for Employee Ownership is hosting an event in Nashville this summer to advise business owners on whether an ESOP is right for them
In Case You Missed It
Check out Jon Shell in this panel on EO policy updates in Canada
See this recording of Align for Impact’s February webinar: Aligning Policy, Capital, and Incentives to Scale Impact