Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Change? Employee Ownership?

We wanted to share this article which is featured on Wired.com today – “Change.org Crowdsources An Agenda For Incoming Administration” - http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/11/changeorg-crowd.html.   The article highlights a social networking website called change.org (http://www.change.org/) which, according to the article, is asking people to tell them what direction they think the country should go in and, under the economy heading, the idea of more employee owned...

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Monday, November 24, 2008

Uncertainty Describes 2008 Election Results Impact on ESOPs -“The Election of 2008 and Its Impact on ESOPs”

[Note: Below are remarks delivered by ESOP Association President, J. Michael Keeling, at The ESOP Association’s 2008 Las Vegas Conference and Trade Show on November 14, 2008, on the impact of the Presidential Election. All rights reserved by The ESOP Association.]      I gave similar remarks as I give today in 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006; never have I faced such a conflicting set of thoughts in crafting my remarks, such hesitancy, and even worry...

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Foundation Reaches $50,000 Goal at Las Vegas Conference & Trade Show

Yes, you read the correctly. At the ESOP Association's Las Vegas Conference & Trade Show held last week, the Employee Ownership Foundation raised over $50,000 with the generous help of the employee ownership community.   The largest single donation was made by the employee owners of Norcal Waste Systems, Inc. located in San Francisco, CA. The incredibly charitable employee owners donated over $27,000 to the Foundation.  Keep an eye on this space as photos from the...

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Wednesday, November 05, 2008

2008 Election and ESOPs

Well, we didn’t want to neglect mentioning the important and historic election which took place yesterday, but we also didn’t want to give away too much by talking about the results of the election in this space.   There are many things we can say, many things we can speculate about, but we are not going to. Why? Next week at The ESOP Association’s Las Vegas Conference & Trade Show, Association President J. Michael Keeling, will be talking in detail about...

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