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🗞️ Ownership Economy News
Community Ownership
From her new book, Aunnie Patton Power shares a story about a county in England that build a community-controlled endowment fund; Katie Boland posts about Patton Power’s book, Brave New Capital
Headwaters Community Trust in Vermont purchased one of Sterling College’s campuses last month
Congrats to Jerome Nikolai Warren as the new Faculty Fellow and Mentor at the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing!
Helen Leung of LA Más receives Innovator of the Year award from Connect CRE for using community ownership to preserve affordable housing
Digital Ownership
As Tech Policy Press synthesizes the latest AI news and the calls for developmental pacing, an unresolved question lingers: Who gets to set that pace?
Pacing the frontier is the theme of the week: AI for Non-Profits Network examines how to scale expertise and impact via AI, with a solid shout out to Project Equity
And The Owner’s Box delves into ownership and governance
In TIME, Sarah Polcz and Jeremy Bearer-Friend argue that the idea of publicly owning AI has become bipartisan, positioning a public-benefit tax as an alternative to government equity
Producer Ownership
🎙️ The Ownership Economy profiles Austin Robey of music platform Subvert
Hoffman Green partners with Terrena, a French agricultural co-op
Research & Insights
A pastor in Goergia recounts why their church worked with Urban Recipe to set up food co-ops for its food-insecure neighbors
Community Land Trust Network releases new impact report and 5-year plan, noting that in the last three years 26 CLTs have built 333 affordable homes
A new HBS case study analyzes emerging framework options for democratic governance and shared stewardship of AI
📺 Oxford Professor Jonathan Michie fames employee ownership as a resilient response to global pressures and inequalities (video below)
📚 Great minds: Oliver Browne and Graeme Nuttall recently published similar findings from local Scottish economies
Project Equity’s Amanda Calder also sees business succession as an economic development issue
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