Employee Ownership Blog

Updated April 3, 11:35 am PT

As I talk with members, the word that keeps coming to mind is “resilience.” Some of you reading this are facing terrible choices and no-win situations. Some of you are seeing trouble approaching.

The NCEO is hosting three webinars, open to the general public, this week on the coronavirus outbreak and its relationship to employee ownership.

Title 1 of the CARES Act directs the SBA to make certain loans to qualifying small businesses.

Jack Stack, the CEO of SRC Holdings, a 100% ESOP-owned company and creator of the Great Game of Business, is holding a free Q&A on responding to the coronavirus.

Thirty-nine years ago, we held our first annual conference. We had 175 attendees, including my uncle Bernie. Last year we sold out at over 1,900; this year, we were on track to sell out even sooner at over 2,000.

Update on March 16: Please read our revised coronavirus update and see the announcement on our conference website. -----------------------------------

A new process agreement between the Department of Labor and Farmers National Bank (FNB) was made public on February 28. It lays out a much more detailed process for evaluating whether an ESOP actually has and can pay for control.

On February 29, Milan Havel joined the staff of the NCEO as our controller.

The NCEO has launched the Spring 2020 CEPI Exam Prep Course.

Forty of the 78 employers among the 2020 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For that can offer stock plans have some kind of broad-based plan.

During the February 19, 2020, debate of the candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination, moderator MSNBC anchor Hallie Jackson asked Pete Buttigieg about employee ownership: "Senator Sanders has a proposal that will require all large companies to turn over up to 20 percent of their owne