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Upstart and Pave, two new crowdfuding sites, are offering a new way for companies to raise equity. Instead of seeking investors to get a conventional share stake, the sites provide that investors will get a stated percentage of profits each month for some number of years.

If it difficult for employees to meet to share ideas regularly, software can help.

We are very pleased to announce that the NCEO will be growing by adding a new staff position sometime this spring. We are looking for someone who can do research, writing, and project management. Good presentation skills would be a plus.

Newly updated state-by-state ESOP slides are now published in our members-only area, along with new industry-specific slides. These downloadable PowerPoint presentations are a member benefit breaking down the ESOP community in each state and industry.

As a benefit to our members, we produce downloadable PowerPoint slides for all 50 states. Each set of slides includes a map of ESOP company locations, the number of privately held ESOPs and participants, an industry breakdown, and more.   

Two new studies by Watson Wyatt, one using public filings and the other using data provided by Charles Schwab, look at the patterns of employee option exercises.

Two new studies show that employee ownership seems to have a positive impact on corporate performance in both Korea and China. Employee ownership has gained important footholds in both countries, although in very different ways.

A new study by Theresa Welbourne at Cornell and Alice Owens at Vanderbilt shows that initial public offerings by companies that offer stock and profit sharing to employees, provide worker training, and stress good work relations do much better than companies not practicing these "employee-friendl

The NCEO has just completed an analysis of Form 5500 retirement plan filings filed by ESOP companies.

A new study presented at the recent Employee Ownership Fellows Program at Rutgers University by Suzanne Cromlish at Case Western Reserve found that acquisitions of other companies by ESOP companies have been strikingly successful.