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I was just a few years out of college when I applied for a job at one of The Cool Hardware Company’s stores in Washington, D.C. It was an hourly role helping customers find the right products on the floor. It was meant to be temporary while...

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Can Employee Ownership Compete With Private Equity in America's Broken Childcare Market?

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What a Way to Make A Living

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Dolly Parton was all over our algorithms last week, even before her sad passing:

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Employee ownership trust explainers, conversions, and convenings

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You’ve stumbled across an experiment: an effort to see what a newsletter might look like that covers all the ways owners commit their businesses to a purpose, from nonbinding public statements all the way to irrevocable purpos...

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  • Mark Hand

    I'm the Editor of The Stakehold and a political science professor. Thanks for reading!

  • Andrea Steffes-Tuttle

    Cultural Anthropologist, Entrepreneur, and Journalist

  • Gabriel Gray

    Writer for The Stakehold about Employee Ownership and other forms of Ownership.

  • Michael Palmieri

    Writing about employee ownership, business succession, and the economic future hiding in plain sight

  • Kate Tully

    Kate Tully (EGBI, Austin) works at the intersection of community development and alternative ownership. She's exploring worker co-ops for childcare and how to connect CDFI capital flows with employee ownership to create generative community wealth.

  • Colin Birkhead

    I'm an Assistant Professor of Management at the Atkinson Graduate School of Management at Willamette University. Giddy up

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