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Ron Kind (D-Wis.) and Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.), both former U.S.

The NCEO's board excellence toolkit and candidate directory launched on September 23, 2021, during the Fall ESOP Forum.

A new study, “Contribution of S ESOPs to Participants’ Retirement Security and Employee-Owner Benefits,” prepared for the Employee-Owned S Corporations of America (

Forty-six of the 78 companies that have stock on the recently released Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list for 2020 have some form of broad-based employee ownership plan, the highest percentage yet.

I'm hearing from a lot of our member companies that as we start getting a clearer picture of the coming post-pandemic era, their planning horizons are starting to get longer again.

Many ESOP companies are looking to diversify their board membership but have a hard time knowing where to look. Board members tend to come from existing networks of CEOs, and tend to be older white males.

Windings is a 100% ESOP company in New Ulm, Minnesota. It provides building components for custom contract motor manufacturers.

Mayor Thomas Henry of Fort Wayne, Indiana, has issued a proclamation officially recognizing October as Employee Ownership Month.

The NCEO recently published a table that highlights the main characteristics of four types of employee ownership, found in our web article Employee Ownership for Closely Held Companies: ESOPs vs. Equity Grants, Trusts, and Worker Cooperatives.

You can get a big picture overview of all things related to making an ESOP company work well at the Fall ESOP Forum, but most people I talk with have one aspect of ESOPs at the top of mind.