Ted Howard on Building Community Wealth Through Cooperative Ownership

Ted Howard on Building Community Wealth Through Cooperative Ownership

March 6, 2013

The Democracy Collaborative’s executive director Ted Howard was invited to talk about the community wealth building paradigm, cooperative ownership, and the Evergreen Cooperatives (of which he is the founding member of Board of Directors) at the Alleviating Poverty Through Entrepreneurship Summit in Columbus, Ohio on February 9, 2013.

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February 17, 2020

Ownership Futures: Towards democratic public ownership in the 21st century

by Thomas Hanna, Mat Lawrence

The Democracy Collaborative and Common Wealth is undertaking a 2020 project to explore the frontiers of public ownership in the 21st century, particularly in the areas of digital infrastructure, data and platforms, intellectual property, and land and natural resources.

June 1, 2017

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Opportunities for impact investing in employee ownership

A new report by Mary Ann Beyster, president and trustee of the Foundation for Enterprise Development (FED), published by the Fifty by Fifty initiative of The Democracy Collaborative, examines the investing landscape for potential opportunities in employee ownership. The report, Impact Investing and Employee Ownership, reports on the results from six months of research, showing that the opportunities for impact investors to support employee ownership are limited, but that an investing infrastructure is beginning to emerge across asset classes.

July 11, 2016

Co-ops Gain Ground in Communities of Color

by Steve Dubb

Originally published in Rooflines: The Shelterforce blog on July 7, 2016. Since 2010, 60 percent of new cooperative worker-owners are people of color and more than two thirds of total worker-owners are women. These are some of the findings from Cooperative Growth Ecosystem: Inclusive Economic