🌱 Spring Events Edition

Mar 06, 2026

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is under fire; we’re watching for how and whether this impacts DOL’s pro-employee-ownership pivot
The Financial Accounting Standards Board is considering requiring employee stock ownership plans to report repurchase obligations on their balance sheet, writes NCEO’s Corey Rosen
Certified Employee Owned’s new EO Base “gives employee-owned companies a branded, centralized website to host all of their ownership resources in one place”

For a full list of upcoming events, see our events page. Share your conference recaps with us, too!

March 10: Clarasys’ event on governance and ownership for purpose-driven businesses, Locking in Purpose: From mindset to mandate
March 10-11: In the UK, EOA’s Representing and Developing Employee Voices
March 11: USFWC’‘s workshop on cooperative member engagement
March 11: LevelUp Coops’ How Ownership Actually Works in a Worker Co-op: A Hands-On Introduction to Ownership Design webinar
March 12: EOX and Deanalytics’ Beyond Retirement, The Real Story of ESOP Payouts
March 13: The Institute for Economic Democracy’s Advancing Worker Ownership: Reclaiming Economic Sovereignty in the 21st Century event in London
March 16: USFWC’s webinar on labor neutrality as the new standard for cooperatives
March 17: NCEO’s Candid Conversation with HFA Leadership
March 18: Grounded Solutions Network’s webinar on innovative models for the real estate market
March 18-19: New Private Markets’ Responsible Investment Forum in NYC includes a panel with Alison Lingane (Ownership Capital Lab) and Delilah Rothenberg (Predistribution Initiative)

Common Trust is hiring for two roles: Chief of Staff and Transaction Advisory Associate
Blue Ridge Associates is hiring as ESOP Communication Consultant

The ESOP Association released their latest newsletter, including upcoming webinars and policy updates from Illinois and Rhode Island
Shannon Litton was named of Ragan’s 2026 Top Women in Communications for her trailblazing work on employee ownership
Alan Pierce plugs ESOPs in Specialty Fabrics Review; 40 Million Owners argues that ESOP companies are well-positioned for the growing buyer-led M&A market
The new edition of the Journey to an ESOP podcast explores Monte Sano Research Cooperation’s transition to employee ownership
Good Times USA of Florida and Gable of Maryland are now employee-owned; and Omni Family of Services, a Nashville-based ESOP, acquired JusticeWorks Youthcare of Pittsburgh. Congrats all!

The Cooperative Development Foundation named their 2026 Cooperative Leaders and Scholars Fellows and is accepting grant applications to their Cooperative Education Fund (applications close May 1st)
First-of-its-kind AI cooperative Transkribus celebrated reaching 500,000 users

ImpactAlpha‘s Dennis Price (paywalled, but summarized in their daily The Brief) reported out from last week’s Purpose Trust Ownership Conference
- Ari Weinzweig of Zingerman’s Deli also reflected on the event in his latest piece, A Positive Look at Perpetual Purpose Trusts, Three Years In
In FastCompany, Carol Cone says that in 2026, corporate purpose will come to a fork in the road. Somebody tell her about purpose trusts and steward ownership!

HR Brew’s Kristen Parisi and National Association of Plan Advisors’ Paul Mulholland cover last week’s Department of Labor Employee Ownership Report to Congress
Ownership Works-affiliated, Alabama-based Landscape Workshop rolled out its broad-based incentive plan
- In ImpactAlpha, Roodgally Senatus asks: if sharing wealth with workers creates value for private equity buyout firms, why not share more? (paywalled)
In Shelterforce, Steve Dubb explains the solidarity economy
The latest newsletter from Beloved Economies includes tips for how to share decision-making power

Rutgers Institute plans to launch an Employee Ownership Research-To-Practice Resource Hub; sign up for updates
The Cooperative Development Foundation is accepting grant applications, including on research, to their Cooperative Education Fund (applications close May 1st)
ICYMI: In January, Jason Spicer won the 2026 Joyce Rothschild Book Prize for his book Co-operative Enterprise in Comparative Perspective and David Fitz-Gerald won the Popular Book Prize for If It’s the Last Thing I Do. Congrats!

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