@IndustCommons

We are an industry focused organization providing resources and support to firms and networks to improve livelihoods and root wealth locally.

 North Carolina, USA
theindustrialcommons.org/
Joined January 2017
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Project Equity@projectequity13 Nov 2018
And in news from across the sea, the UK's biggest animation company, @aardman , producers of #WallaceAndGromit, just sold to the employees to keep their company independent! #employeeownership ow.ly/Tiri30mBhEr

Wallace & Gromit producers hand stake in business to staff

Founders of the UK’s biggest animation company giving up 75% of Aardman to employees to ‘safeguard independence’

theguardian.com
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Project Equity@projectequity9 Aug 2018
Can you imagine life without glass? This is a story about Adams & Chittenden Scientific Glass, a little manufacturing company in #Berkeley whose owners, with our help, are selling to their employees #EmployeeOwnership ow.ly/bwC630llesR
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Project Equity@projectequity13 Jun 2018
We just got word that the bipartisan Main Street #EmployeeOwnership Act will likely pass the US Senate making employee and cooperative ownership more attainable for businesses! ow.ly/sNiO30kudSv
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Mountain BizWorks@MtnBizWorks1 Dec 2017
The Worker Ownership Action Institute day had us learning about democratized ownership. You Interested? Check out our co-op 101 class in Feb
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Thanks @ARCgov for featuring @IndustCommons #entrepreneurship in reinventing textile manufacturing jobs with a model that works for Western NC. #TtransformingAppalachia!
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The Open Co-op@open_coop16 Oct 2017
Three million #coops employ almost 10% of world population buff.ly/2wYigiB
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U.S. Co-ops@US_Coops11 Sep 2017
This is huge! After 50 years - food co-ops can access SBA loans. A big win for the Inter-agency working group.... fb.me/FROujcUg
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Rural Opportunity@ruralinnovators8 Sep 2017
Molly Hemstreet: in context of changing rural economy, put more power, equity and voice in the hands of workers. #ruralinnovation
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Joseph Blasi@JosephBlasi4 Sep 2017
Thank you Democracy Collaborative for the long interview on Employee Ownership - see the Next System@TheNextSystem thenextsystem.org/learn/stor…
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50M employee-owners by 2050? You bet we can reach the goal. Real Pickles employees raised $500k to buy a business! bit.ly/2vkeZcS
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Make sure to catch "From the Ashes", a doc abt the future of coal featuring Brandon Dennison @CoalfieldTweets wvmetronews.com/2017/06/22/d…
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Project Equity@projectequity30 Jun 2017
Replying to @TheICAGroup
@TheICAGroup helped transition this 16 year old company in Mass. to a #coop just in time for #EODay ow.ly/5hKJ30dbr9g @TheRecorderNews
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Project Equity@projectequity7 Jun 2017
"We are in desperate need of new approaches that will revitalize entrepreneurship" @franzicharen ow.ly/6atP30coFfl @asheville #avlnews
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Project Equity@projectequity7 Jun 2017
Congratulations to our friends at @NamasteSolar. They just raised over $3.1M in an unconventional stock offering! ow.ly/a2eh30coDBy
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Loomio Cooperative@Loomio12 May 2017
Loomio co-creator @LombardoNati asks "How do you build a collaborative culture?” medium.com/enspiral-tales/fr…
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The New Tropic@newtropicmiami30 May 2017
Baby boomers own close to 50% of all small businesses. What happens when they retire? bit.ly/2rQixoq @projectequity
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Important new research on employee ownership as a strategy to combat inequality from @theNCEO: ownershipeconomy.org/
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Project Equity@projectequity15 May 2017
The best-kept business model secret of our age is about to get the spotlight it has long deserved ow.ly/cytT30bJuBr #employeeownership
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CASE at Duke@CASEatDuke5 May 2017
Have powerful #SocEnt #ImpInv ideas for #SOCAP17? Submit your session ideas to @SOCAPmarkets by 5/31: bit.ly/2pupQ3r
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