In the News

For the first time, business owners can receive financial assistance to explore creating an employee stock ownership plan.

The programming will be led by SMLR’s Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing and its New Jersey/New York Center for Employee Ownership.

Nonprofit Quarterly writes about the new NJ/NY Center for Employee Ownership program that helps business owners of color convert to an ESOP or worker co-op.

SMLR’s NJ/NY Center for Employee Ownership introduces a free online program to help retiring entrepreneurs sell the business to their workers.

Salisbury Business Journal reports Frank Shipper, a research fellow in the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, served on a panel at the Beyster Symposium. The discussion focused on a paper by Bill Castellano of the NJ/NY Center for Employee Ownership.

The nationwide initiative advances succession strategies to keep businesses running and save jobs.

NJBIZ reports the NJ/NY Center for Employee Ownership will be walking business owners through the process of becoming an ESOP or worker co-op, quoting Bill Castellano and Jim Terez.

ROI-NJ reports on the NJ/NY Center for Employee Ownership program, quoting Bill Castellano and Jim Terez.

Forbes publishes a column, quoting Joseph Blasi of the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing and noting that Bill Castellano of the NJ/NY Center for Employee Ownership is leading the Participatory Management Certificate Program.

Rutgers Today profiles Melanie Willoughby, a Rutgers alumna who leads the New Jersey Business Action Center, quoting Bill Castellano and noting Willoughby’s recent collaboration with the NJ/NY Center for Employee Ownership.