Announcing the 2023 NCEO Board of Directors

The NCEO is delighted to announce six new members of its board of directors: Lori Atone, Jennifer Briggs, Haydee Caldero, Timothy Garbinsky, Susan Kildahl, and Dan Markowitz -- their bios are below. The three-year terms of the new directors will begin on April 1, 2023.

The NC State Center Is Hiring an Executive Director

Across the U.S. there is a burgeoning and vibrant network of state centers for employee ownership that are working to get the word out about ESOPs, worker cooperatives, employee ownership trusts (EOTs), and other forms of broad-based ownership for businesses.

Major Wins for Employee Ownership in New Spending Bill

The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, an omnibus spending bill with many parts, contains major wins for employee ownership as part of the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022, including the passage of the WORK Act.

A Christmas Carol, the ESOP Version

Lots of us love Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. The tale of Ebenezer Scrooge’s dream-tormented epiphany about what really matters in life has resonated deeply with people of all ages ever since it was published.

Two Coops Leave the Mondragon Corporation

The Mondragon Corporation of Spain’s Basque region, an integrated network of more than 90 employee-owned companies plus many worker cooperatives, is the best-known example of worker cooperative

Rosen-Case Ownership Book Wins Book Prize

Ownership: Reinventing Capitalism, Companies, and Who Owns What won the 2023 William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte Book Prize for the best book of the year on shared capitalism.