Baker Center for Employee Ownership

leveraging the “center of excellence” model to advance the adoption of employee ownership as a business succession strategy

The Mission

Curate and create employee ownership resources to support educating and raising awareness of its benefits for employees, business owners, professionals, academia and communities

What does Baker Center for Employee Ownership do?

Content

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Provides information about the benefits and issues impacting employee ownership and creates resources about converting to an employee ownership structure

Curriculum

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Develops and distributes educational materials on all facets of employee ownership to support the creation of employee owned organizations

Community

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Provides opportunities for potential employee owned companies to join with other organizations to explore employee ownership, and for current employee owned companies and professionals to share best practices

Who are Baker Center for Employee Ownership's partners?

Companies

Employee ownership can take many forms. As a result Baker Center partners with for-profit companies across industries – regardless of shape, size or structure.

Professionals Service Organizations

Baker Center supports providers of accounting, legal, banking, and other of financial services as they look to learn more and partner with companies taking the employee ownership journey.

Higher Education

Baker Center provides resources to institutions of higher education who are incorporating employee ownership into their curriculum – including courses in management, accounting, finance, human resources, sociology, and social justice. 

Learn more!

The Baker Center is a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Center for Employee Ownership, a registered Pennsylvania 501(c)(3) non-profit

Initial funding for the Baker Center for Employee Ownership was provided through a generous endowment from the family of Ken Baker,
Chairman/CEO of NewAge industries, an employee owned company.

Pennsylvania Center for Employee Ownership