Join us next Wednesday, June 16 at 1PM ET for an overview of investing in business conversions to employee ownership. 

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John,

ASBC-SVC invite you to join us Wednesday, June 16, 1:00-2:30pm ET for Invest Strategically to Close the Wealth Gap: Converting Businesses into Employee Owned Enterprises ([link removed]) with Ed Whitfield and Brendan Martin (Seed Commons), Christina Jennings (Shared Capital Cooperative), Todd Leverette (Apis & Heritage Legacy Fund I/DAWI), Jonathan Ward and David Hammer (ICA Group/ The Fund for Jobs Worth Owning), and Harold Pettigrew (Washington Area Community Investment Fund).

This session will provide a brief overview of proven, compelling reasons for investing in business conversions to employee ownership. Most importantly, the seminar will showcase presentations by fund managers who will explain how you can support and invest in this fast growing asset class at an appropriate level for your portfolio.

Study after study documents the powerful benefits achieved by employee owned enterprises for workers in terms of additional income and retirement savings as well as improved workplace conditions. Additionally, employee ownership can address issues leading to racial and gender wealth gaps. Employee owners of color have a 30% higher wage income than do non employee owners of color.

Communities are also direct beneficiaries of employee owner conversions because these initiatives help preserve local businesses, especially so, in the current pandemic environment when many sound small and medium sized businesses are threatened with bankruptcy.

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Background reading
* Opportunity Knocking: Impact Capital as the Transformational Agent to Take Employee Ownership to Scale ([link removed]) - January 2021 - By the Democracy Alliance | Authored by Jessica Rose, Marjorie Kelly, Sarah Stranahan, Michelle Camou & Karen Kahn
* Race and Gender Wealth Equity and the Role of Employee Share Ownership ([link removed]) - April 1, 2021 - Prepared by the Aspen Institute, Rutgers and the Democracy at Work Institute | Authored by Jenny Weissbourd ([link removed]) , Maureen Conway ([link removed]) , Joyce Klein ([link removed]) , Yoorie Chang ([link removed]) , Joseph Blasi ([link removed]) , Douglas Kruse ([link removed]) , Melissa Hoover ([link removed]) , Todd Leverette ([link removed]) , Julian McKinley ([link removed]) & Zen Trenholm
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* Conversions to Employee Ownership in a Succession Context ([link removed]) - November 7, 2019 - Prepared by Transform Finance | Authored by Andrea Armeni and Camille Kerr

For more information on this initiative of the SVC Community Capital Working Group contact [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

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In partnership with JumpScale, The Accountkeepers, Bromberger Law, SustainVC, GoodCarts, Impact Makers, Trillium Asset Management, Perlman & Perlman, CNote, Junxion, and Hanson Bridgett.
Upcoming Events
June 23 - Mind the (30x2030) Gap: Banking on Business Getting on Board on Time ([link removed])
Learn about the 30x2030 goals and hear from peers who are thinking about how private enterprise can align with these goals for outcomes that benefit people, planet and business in the NEXT Economy. Brought to you by the Livable Planet Working Group ([link removed]) .

June 30 - Impact Investment in Latin America - Emerging Leaders and Opportunities ([link removed])
During this fireside-style chat facilitated by Josh Knauer from JumpScale, we’ll be exploring the overall landscape for impact investors in Latin America while digging into Brazil-based UTU Fund and the IMPAQTO Fund.

December 8-10 - ASBC-SVC 2021 Winter Conference ([link removed])
An in-person convening for business leaders, impact investors, policy makers, and more taking place in Paradise Point, San Diego, CA.
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