Stakeholders—This week only, we’re shipping everyone the latest edition of our new Ownership on Purpose newsletter. On Friday, we’ll get back to our regular employee ownership-focused programming. Today, take a look and subscribe or archive; this won’t otherwise hit your inbox in the future. - Mark
Welcome Back
Next month the Skoll Centre at Oxford will launch a new report, What is Your Organisation For? The report helps leaders answer three questions that can align their ownership with their mission:
What is your organization for, and how committed is it to that?
Who has a stake in it the value it creates?
Who has a say in its direction?
Join us online or in Oxford on Nov 13th.
I’m also happy to introduce Contributing Editor Ariel Schwartz, Executive Director of the Center for Social Impact Strategy at Penn. That center houses Ginny Vanderslice’s Leadership Program for ESOP CEOs and Presidents. Welcome, Ariel!
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🥃 Top Shelf News On Purpose
Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust is getting some scrutiny ahead of its initial public offering
The second Purpose Trust Ownership Conference dates are set for May 12-14 in Portland (check out Mark’s keynote from the first one)
Aspen Institute’s Economic Opportunities Program published What Employee Ownership Means to Workers, insights gleaned from 85 employee-owners
On Purpose: The report found that shared goals and commitment to a social mission were important to workers
Which recalled for us this hundred year-old quote from Mary Follett:
“The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leaders have not followers but men and women working with him.”
👉 In This Issue
Events and Opportunities
News on Purpose
Research and Insights
🏙️ Opportunities
For events more than a month out, see our main Events page.
Today: Day one of the Opportunity Finance Network’s OFN42 conference in New Orleans, LA
Social Nest Foundation‘s The Gap in Between conference in Valencia, Spain
Doughnut Economics Action Lab hosts DEAL Intersections
Oct 27: Innovative Finance Initiative’s Training Day in Amsterdam
Oct 28: Reclaim the Economy Week’s 2027 Info Sessions
Oct 29: Aspen Institute EOP’s What Employee Ownership Means to Workers (see above!)
Nov 12: The Institute for Business in Global Society at Harvard’s TOP26: Steward Ownership Conference in Cambridge, MA
Opportunities
For more, visit our Jobs page.
New Majority Capital | Deal Sourcing Associate
GitLab Foundation | Managing Director, Collaborative Capital
Applications are open for the Leadership Program for ESOP CEOs and Presidents 2027 cohort at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Social Impact Strategy
Dec 15 | Deadline to join 2027 Cohort of Impact Peers, a community for mission-driven leaders
🗞️ News on Purpose
PURPOSE premieres their monthly Steward Ownership Monthly Brief
Cathy Clark announces her final year as Faculty Director of CASE at Duke
Optimax founder Rick Plympton visits HBS to discuss their teaching case, co-authored by Mark and Jenny Everett
B The Change returns with a new edition, featuring an interview with employee-owner Madeline Barr of Resonant Energy
🇬🇧 Ignition, a B Corp digital marketing agency and EOT, joins EOA
ICYMI: B Lab UK launches B Corp Consultants
🎙️ The Ownership Effect explores how purpose transforms a company with Kathy Varol:
Research & Insights
The latest arguments, analysis, and academic research (📚)
🎙️ Jerome Nikolai Warren drops textbook-as-podcast episode linking co-ops, sustainable development and environmental protection
📺 Postlethwaite investigates why more purpose-driven companies are combining B Corp with employee ownership with EOT Orms Architects
🇨🇦 We love a list: Check out this Canadian digest of values-aligned transitions
Alexandra Amouyel, President and CEO of Newman’s Own Foundation, shares her favorite Acquired podcast episodes (we think she has great taste)
✌️ See you next week
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