Cooperative news from around New York State

  • SBDC hosts webinar on employee ownership transitions

    The North Central Small Business Development Center is hosting the Cooperative Fund of the Northeast to speak about employee ownership. Many small business owners are seeing an inside sale to an employee cooperative as the best option for their succession and exit planning. Employees often understand the business better than an outside buyer, can carry…

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  • Good Work Institute and Co-op Hudson Valley offer Democratizing Work series

    The Good Work Institute and Co-op Hudson Valley offering a workshop series, that gets into the nuts and bolts of tools, policies and practices that support democratic decision making, and discuss the kinds of relational shifts that facilitate a culture of shared leadership.

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  • Cornell Cooperative Enterprise study on worker cooperative conversions

    A paper from the Cornell Cooperative Enterprise program offers case studies of four recent small business transitions to a worker cooperative model. From the summary: Small business is big business in New York State with nearly 90 percent of firms employing less than 20 persons. Headlines draw attention to the number of small business owners…

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