Guenevere Abernathy to Serve as First Executive Director of NCEOC

Durham, NC – December 14, 2020 – The North Carolina Employee Ownership Center is delighted to announce that we have hired our first executive director, NC native Guenevere Abernathy, who will lead NCEOC in achieving our mission of protecting jobs, bolstering communities, and strengthening businesses through employee ownership. Abernathy has spent her career launching new initiatives,…


NCEO 2021 Virtual Annual Employee Ownership Conference

From NCEO! We invite you to join us on April 20 and 21, 2021, for the NCEO’s virtual Annual Employee Ownership Conference. Register now! “The power of employee ownership is the power of our community, a community blessed with innovative, caring responses to even the most difficult challenges. Our openness to new ideas, and our…


#GivingTuesday 2020 Donate Today

It’s #GivingTuesday – Donate Today Support the Indiana Center for Employee Ownership on #GivingTuesday Dec 1, 2020. The mission of the Indiana Center for Employee Ownership, Inc. (INCEO) is to promote better understanding of the values of employee ownership among business leaders, public officials, employees, members of the media, students, academics/academic institutions, consumers, and other…


Do ESOPs Make a Difference?

Yes they do! in a recent post by Nonprofit Quarterly: Preliminary figures for the 2020 pandemic economic downturn, courtesy of researchers at Rutgers University, and the numbers are telling: Decline in total employment ESOP majority employee-owned, mean job loss—4.8 percent ESOP majority employee-owned, median job loss—0.4 percent All other firms, mean loss of jobs—19.5 percent All other firms, median job loss—13 percent All told, the…


Veterans Day 2020

  From one Veteran to another, INCEO would like to recognize and thank all who served.


Blue and Company INCEO’s Newest Corporate Sponsor

The Indiana Center for Employee Ownership would like to welcome Blue and Company as our newest corporate sponsor!  Blue and Company join Katz, Sapper & Miller, and Krieg DeVault in financially supporting the mission of INCEO to provide education and advocacy on employee ownership within Indiana. About Blue and Co. Blue & Co., LLC is…


Creating Wealth through Employee Ownership: The Transition Process

Two sessions provided Session 1 on Tuesday, October 27 , 2020 Session 2 on Thursday, October 29, 2020 Virtual Hosted by the Indiana Cooperative Development Center and the Indiana Center for Employee Ownership Over 41,000 businesses in Indiana are owned by people over 55. As these Hoosiers prepare for retirement, how will they plan for transitioning their…


Indianapolis – 2020 EOM Proclamation

INCEO has received Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett’s proclamation for 2020 recognizing Employee Ownership, and October as Employee Ownership Month!  A PDF copy of the proclamation is available for download to use in your ESOPs EOM celebration activities via the following Link.  An image of the proclamation is below.


Governor Holcomb – EOM Proclamation

INCEO has received Indiana Governor Holcomb’s proclamation for 2020 recognizing Employee Ownership, and October as Employee Ownership Month!  A PDF copy of the proclamation is available for download to use in your ESOPs EOM celebration activities via the following Link.  An image of the proclamation is below.


Carmel – EOM Proclamation

INCEO has received the first Mayoral proclamation for 2020 Employee Ownership Month!  Many thanks to Chris Fredericks CEO of TVF Inc, for working with the Carmel Mayor’s office to get this proclamation out.  A PDF copy of the proclamation is available here. Below is an image of the Proclamation.