Good morning! Bianca Blomquist, Policy Director foe California, Small Business Majority. Excited to be here this morning.

Hello everyone and welcome to this afternoon’s event “Creating an Economy that Works for Everyone: A conversation on employee ownership” honoring Heinz Award for the Economy recipients Alison Lingane and Hilary Abell. This webinar is being recorded and we will share the recording with you in the coming days. Please use the Q&A function to share your questions. There will be a Q&A session at the end of the event.You can learn more about all of the 2022 Heinz Award winners here: Heinzawards.org

Learn more about PaCEO here: https://ownershippennsylvania.org

Hey, do u want a copy of the transcript? I am recording with this app https://zoom.beulr.com/, was planning to email it out. Lmk if you want a copy :)

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Good morning! Also from California, Joyce Hart of Hartfilms. Producer of "Own It! Louis Kelso's Macroeconomic Fix."

Good morning! Debbie Notkin from Friends of the Public Bank East Bay.

Jim Seymour - Board member of Social Enterprise Greenhouse in Providence, RI.

Emalie Martzall- Marketing and Community Outreach Coordinator at Pennsylvania Center for Employee Ownership!

Good morning! Jennie Mollica with High Road Alliance.

Hello - Evan Edwards, Chief Executive Officer - Project Equity

Hello all! Lori with Tech Met Inc. Pittsburgh, PA

PROJECT EQUITY!!!

Emalie Martzall- Marketing and Community Outreach Coordinator at Pennsylvania Center for Employee Ownership!

Thanks, Kim, and Hilary and Alison, for all you do! Hello, Kevin. Great work on the PGH Task Force on EO, and it’s great working with you. Ron Gaydos, Keystone Development Center, Inc. (Cooperative Development in the Mid-Atlantic States)

Luis Arteaga from the Y&H Soda Foundation in the East Bay California. GO PE!

Hello all - Debra Caplan, Board Member, Partner4Work,and Executive in Residence, The Forbes Funds, Pittsburgh PA

Hi all! Sara Innamorato. State Rep in PA and the lead sponsor of HB 2888 and task force member. More info on the bill Kevin mentioned — https://legiscan.com/PA/text/HB2888/2021

David Liao with PSoas Massage +Bodywork in California. We're working with Project Equity right now! Thank you, PE!

Hello! Jim Walls, CEO of Truth & Consequences, a Philly-based (and proudly employee-owned) marketing and video production firm.

Isa Fernandez with UTSA Small Business Development Center in San Antonio, TX

Hi Everyone! Teree Castanias, Teresa Castanias, CPA. Congratulations to Project Equity!

Hello Kim Blaugher from the Beyster Institute

Greg Kaufmann with End Poverty in California. Hello all!

Learn more about Project Equity’s work here: www.project-equity.org

Hi everyone! Luke Hoffman here from the North Carolina Employee Ownership Center (NCEOC)

Good morning! Janet Kodish, owner of Desert Hardware in California. Looking at employee ownership as part of my succession planning.

Outstanding! Michael Golden - SES ESOP Strategies

Hello! Andy Alvey with Tugboat Institute and a fan of Project Equity.

Hi all. Corey Rosen, National Center for Employee Ownership and coauthor of a new book with John Case on why this is such an important idea, Ownership: Reinventing Companies, Capitalism, and Who Owns What. The NCEO is a great source of information on how to do employee ownership. Details at www.nceo.org.

Hello All! Marla Wilson with New America

Stacey Vanek Smith is the author of the book “Machiavelli for Women”. Learn more about the book and where you can purchase your copy: bit.ly/MachiavelliForWomen

The Case for Employee Ownership does a great job of laying out the impact of EO: https://project-equity.org/about-us/publications/the-case-for-employee-ownership/

@Corey Rosen--government saves! Such a Kelsonian approach. Great.

Denise Yamamoto, Oakland, CA - big fan of Project Equity. Congratulations, Alison and Hilary!

Greetings all. Geoff Dabelko at the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service at Ohio University.

What training is recommended for employees to help them be sustainably successful?

Check out these stories and case studies from Project Equity: https://project-equity.org/businesses/learn-from-others/

ASONY shoutout! :) Great pizza and a great team

This is going so well! We are running over time by about 10 minutes, so if there’s any way to catch up by even five minutes, that would be great.

OK!

OK if I skip private sector and go straight to accomplishments?

Sure, I can weave in private sector there

Excellent!

How do we reach Hilary and Alison?

www.employeeownershipequals.org

Hi John, I can give them your contact info if that's okay.

Yes please. john@playatcreation.comI am collaborating with Tom Gledhill to empower Boomer business owners to be able to retire by selling their business to employee groups.

Awareness + Policy Change + Success Stories!

Perhaps send to Kevin as well.

Happy to!

If you are looking for resource material or assistance for Cooperative Development, including steps, you can also go to: https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/all-programs/cooperative-services or email us at coopinfo@usda.gov We also have success stories for Cooperatives: https://www.rd.usda.gov/newsroom/success-stories/browse-all-stories?field_emphasis_initiatives_target_id=7026&field_state_reference_target_id=All

Should we skip questions or jump right to them after Kevin?

Hilary and Alison, I think we should answer at least two questions.

Let’s do those first two, one for Hilary and one for Alison

Got it

Thank you

I’ll incorporate the 1st one into my remarks now

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AMAZING!!!

Alison - how to use schools?

Thanks for all of your great and exciting work!!

Great discussion. Thank you for your leadership

Wonderful!

Biz schools?

Great event! Thank you.

Such an amazing update from such an incredible team. Congratulations, Hilary and Alison and everyone at Project Equity!

I appreciate the discussion and seeing the passion and love for the work put into this!

Good info very exciting!

Congratulations to the winners of our book drawing! We will send your book in the coming weeks.Debra CaplanGeoff DabelkoRaul De La ORachel FarahbakhshTerron FergusonSara InnamoratoKarris JacksonJamie LeShae JenkinsJames McLawhornSal MendozaJames ProvoMyriam ReblingSally RoodLinda RussellJim SeymourHillary ShermanGeorjean StoodtJasmine StoughtonAdhira UdayarajMarla Wilson

Good luck, Stacey, Kevin, Hilary, and Alison…

Congratulations!!

Wonderful, essential discussion. I feel inspired by Hilary, Alison and Project Equity!

Congratulations!

HOORAY!!!

Thanks you all! This was great

Thank you!