We just got word that the bipartisan Main Street #EmployeeOwnership Act will likely pass the US Senate making employee and cooperative ownership more attainable for businesses! ow.ly/sNiO30kudSv

Can you imagine life without glass? This is a story about Adams & Chittenden Scientific Glass, a little manufacturing company in #Berkeley whose owners, with our help, are selling to their employees #EmployeeOwnership ow.ly/bwC630llesR

Looking forward to meeting other #CommunitiesThriveChallenge finalists in a local impact #UpChat starting in 10 minutes!. Join the conversation with Upworthy The Rockefeller Foundation @LaborProject Family Values @ Work & more!

We love #WesternNorthCarolina, it is naturally beautiful! People are resilient with deep roots. We are rural and connected, organizations tend to be collaborative because we know each other. #UpChat #CommunitiesThriveChallenge

A2: Our poverty rate is nearly 20% but our unemployment rate is 3.7%. People are working but many of the jobs aren’t #goodjobs. We want to build opportunities, jobs with dignity and better livelihoods for families. #UpChat #CommunitiesThriveChallenge

A#3: Make a list of your values, let them guide your work, your interactions with others, the people you serve, the organizations you partner with. If you know the “why” behind your work then the “how” will come much easier. #ListsAreCool #UpChat #CommunitiesThriveChallenge

A4: We love Self-Help, they help frontline workers gain access to economic self sufficiency. We also love the stories coming from Work in Burke Burke Development highlighting youth building a positive future in #manufacturing. #UpChat #CommunitiesThriveChallenge

A5: In between. We talk a lot about the difference between desperation and urgency. We have a sense of urgency that we need to improve the jobs and change traditional companies quickly, before they r lost. #UpChat #CommunitiesThriveChallenge ow.ly/H1Et30mcdqs Project Equity

A6: Agency, voice, ownership, dignity, power. We specifically work in manufacturing and feel that these aspects (pay, benefits, etc.) are just foundational. #UpChat #CommunitiesThriveChallenge youtu.be/9LZKEwUmx_A

A7: Our poverty rate is nearly 20% but our unemployment rate is 3.7%. People are working but many of the jobs aren’t #goodjobs. They aren’t jobs that build opportunities, dignity and livelihoods 4 families. #UpChat #CommunitiesThriveChallenge Facing South ow.ly/XcqQ30mcdSE

A8: #LocallyOwned businesses are key! @AshevilleGrown, one of the strongest #GoLocal campaigns is our ally here in #WNC! Absentee ownership is extractive and doesn't build community wealth or real opportunity for equity. #UpChat #CommunitiesThriveChallenge ow.ly/tFeW30mce1t

A9: That our youth want to live here. Manufacturing workers have dignified jobs they r proud of. Work is rooted & has permanence. Work isn’t easily extracted. Highest saturation of democratically run workplaces w/ access to equity & ownership. #UpChat #CommunitiesThriveChallenge

It would be so hard to have to decide between these amazing organizations and all this inspirational work. Thank you to The Rockefeller Foundation Upworthy #CommunitiesThriveChallenge for this #UpChat! Good luck to everyone!

Business owners interested in #employeeownership join us at New Belgium Brewing in #Asheville on Oct. 30! #AvlNews Mountain BizWorks Carolina Small Business Development Fund Asheville Scene Jason Sandford MountainXBiz

Thanks to the News Herald for covering our work and announcing we're finalists for the #CommunitiesThriveChallenge via the Chan Zuckerberg and The Rockefeller Foundation. This would be such an incredible opportunity for our community! ow.ly/OdOq30mcfH4

And in news from across the sea, the UK's biggest animation company, Aardman , producers of #WallaceAndGromit, just sold to the employees to keep their company independent! #employeeownership ow.ly/Tiri30mBhEr

Congratulations to Meridian Speciality Yarn Group for being awarded by Manufactured in NC for innovation in expansion and modernization. We're thrilled to be able to work with them on ways to engage and retain workers. ow.ly/f4z930mLQe6

We're over the moon! We are a #CommunitiesThriveChallenge Grantee! The support from the The Rockefeller Foundation & Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will make a big impact on #goodjobs & #EmployeeOwnership in #WNC. It’s an honor to be among such great company! #CTCGrantee ow.ly/Ww9830mRgaf

We're in such great company! Humbled and inspired by the passionate work happening in our country: x.com/RockefellerFdn…

Increasingly, retiring business owners are selling their company to the employees. Excited to see our org mentioned in Entrepreneur x.com/projectequity/…