Loren Rodgers
As I talk with members, the word that keeps coming to mind is “resilience.” Some of you reading this are facing terrible choices and no-win situations. Some of you are seeing trouble approaching. But all of the people I have talked with these last weeks – company leaders, employee-owners, advisers, members of the NCEO board, people in our allied organizations – are putting in the hours to create solutions and share them.
Loren Rodgers
The NCEO is hosting three webinars, open to the general public, this week on the coronavirus outbreak and its relationship to employee ownership. You can register for future webinars on Free Webinars: ESOP Issues During the Coronavirus, which will also be updated with follow-up information and recordings of the webinars.
Loren Rodgers
We at the NCEO have always seen ourselves as your partners. We exist to make employee ownership thrive, and that mission determines what we do: serve the needs of you who are reading this.
Loren Rodgers
Update on March 16: Please read our revised coronavirus update and see the announcement on our conference website.
Loren Rodgers
On February 29, Milan Havel joined the staff of the NCEO as our controller.
Loren Rodgers
The NCEO has launched the Spring 2020 CEPI Exam Prep Course. Candidates for the Certified Equity Professional designation, offered by the Certified Equity Professional Institute at Santa Clara University, receive access to our online learning environment with hundreds of sample questions, answers, and explanations; a practice final exam; webinars on the four subject areas (accounting; taxation; corporate and securities law; and equity plan design, analysis, and administration) for all three levels; a Quick Reference Guide for use during studying; and supplemental study documents. This year's exams will be held May 18 to 23, with a full schedule and FAQs available online.
Loren Rodgers
During the February 19, 2020, debate of the candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination, moderator MSNBC anchor Hallie Jackson asked Pete Buttigieg about employee ownership: "Senator Sanders has a proposal that will require all large companies to turn over up to 20 percent of their ownership to employees over time. Is that a good idea?"
Loren Rodgers
The NCEO is proud to announce the new members of its board of directors, following the election in January.
Loren Rodgers
On January 29, the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives and the Democracy at Work Institute released their annual report on the state of worker cooperatives (registration required) in the U.S. The report notes that there are 465 known worker cooperatives, which is a slight increase from the 450 known cooperatives in the 2017 report. Worker cooperatives employ 6,454 people and generate annual revenue of approximately $505 million. They're situated throughout the country, with concentrations in the San Francisco Bay Area, the corridor from Washington, D.C., to Boston, and Puerto Rico.
