Australia
| Australian Securities and Investments Commission | Employee share schemes -Sharing the wealth. As an employee of a company, you may be invited to participate in an employee share scheme. There are a number of things to consider before signing up. |
| Australian Taxation Office | The basics of employee share schemes, their benefits and taxation. |
| The Business Council of Cooperatives and Mutuals (BBCM) | The Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals (BCCM) is the national peak body representing the co-operative and mutual models of enterprise. It is the only organisation uniting the entire and diverse range of member owned businesses in Australia. |
United States
| Project Equity | Through Project Equity discover the power of employee ownership – whether you own a business, advise business owners, or want a thriving local economy, find out how employee ownership can work for you. |
| National Center for Employee Ownership | A comprehensive US site which contains a wealth of information on US stock and option plans. The NCEO also runs a wide range of seminars in the US for those interested in employee ownership. |
| Centre for Economic & Social Justice | The Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ), established in 1984, promotes a free enterprise approach to global economic justice through expanded capital ownership. CESJ is a non-profit, non-partisan, ecumenical, all-volunteer organization with an educational and research mission. |
| Employee Ownership Foundation | The Employee Ownership Foundation’s (EOF) primary purpose is to support programs that will increase the level of awareness and appreciation of the benefits of employee ownership and increase the number of employees who have access to this benefit. |
| Foundation for Enterprise Development – The Beyster Institute | The Foundation for Enterprise Development specializes in international entrepreneurship and economic development. The Beyster Institute specializes in employee ownership, equity compensation and entrepreneurship. Their motto is ” None of us is as smart as all of us”. |
| Ohio Employee Ownership Centre | The Ohio Employee Ownership Center supports the development of business across Ohio and around the world by its efforts that are proven to save jobs, create wealth, and grow the economy. The OEOC’s work rests on a simple philosophy: broader ownership of productive assets is a good thing for employees, communities, and the country. The OEOC provides technical assistance, training, & outreach to the business community. |
| ESOP Association | The ESOP Association, founded in 1978, is a national non-profit membership organization with a primary focus on employee ownership through employee share ownership plans (ESOPs). It serves 2,500 ESOP companies and professionals with expert educational ESOP programming and information. It focuses on promoting and enhancing laws before Congress and regulatory agencies that govern ESOPs. |
| A Visual Guide To Employee Ownership – Charting the Spread of Employee Ownership | This site exists to illustrate the world of employee ownership (for now, in the U.S. only) through maps, infographics, and videos, and other means. |
| Curriculum Library for Employee Ownership (CLEO) | The CLEO Collection of downloadable, free case studies of employee-owned companies. |
Canada
| Canadian Employee Ownership Coalition | The Canadian Employee Ownership Coalition (CEOC) is a diverse, non-partisan network of Canadians from the business, nonprofit, academic and charitable sectors committed to unlocking the potential of employee ownership for the benefit of Canada’s economy and workers. |
| The ESOP Association Canada | The ESOP Association Canada is a non-profit organization founded in November 1990 for the purpose of promoting the concept of employee ownership for business in Canada. |
United Kingdom
| Employee Ownership Association | The Employee Ownership Association UK (formerly Job Ownership Ltd – JOL) is the association of employee owned and trust owned businesses in the UK. The Employee Ownership Association exists to promote employee ownership of business and to expand the size and influence of the co-owned business sector in the UK. It provides information and services to members and new thinking about employee ownership. |
| The ESOP Centre | The Employee Share Ownership Centre is a non profit subscription based organisation founded in 1988 by chairman Malcolm Hurlston to inform, lobby and research in the interest of developing all forms of broad-based employee share ownership plans in the UK and Europe. |
| Ifs ProShare | Ifs ProShare is a not-for-profit organisation that promotes and encourages employee share ownership. You can see details of our most recent meeting here. |
| Cooperative Development Scotland | Co-operative Development Scotland is the arm of Scotland’s enterprise agencies that support company growth through employee ownership and cooperative business models |
Europe
| European Federation of Employee Share Ownership | EFES’ objective is to act as the European umbrella organization of employee owners and all persons, companies, trade unions, experts, researchers, institutions, all those people who are looking to promote employee ownership and participation in Europe. The European Federation is developing, with the contribution of experts, legal specialists and economists. It is setting up a European centre for information, meeting, training, advice, representation and lobbying to serve its members. It also organises many events and meetings in Europe to promote and develop the participation of employee owners. |
| European Programme for Employee Ownership Learning and Education (EOLE) | EOLE is the European Programme for Employee Ownership Learning and Education. EOLE will collect all information about existing communication, training and education programmes and invites (European) companies, organisations and social partners, educational and training organisations, to provide relevant information for their databank. |
Africa
| Southern Africa Employee Ownership Association (SAEOA) | SAEOA has been established to be the voice of employees, companies and shareholders on sharing ownership broadly with the people who make the company succeed. |
Asia
| Japan Employee Ownership Association | Japan Employee Ownership Association (JEOA) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2014. With the absence of employee ownership concepts in Japan, JEOA’s objective is to introduce and promote employee ownership both in practice and academically. |
Global
| Global Equity Organisation | GEO was founded in 1999 to support corporate executives and equity compensation professionals dealing with the challenges of creating, managing and administering employee share plans large and small, national and global. GEO has more than 4,500 individual members representing over 1,500 companies and professional firms in more than 60 countries around the world. |
| World at Work | WorldatWork is a not-for-profit organization providing education, conferences and research focused on global human resources issues including compensation, benefits, work-life and integrated total rewards to attract, motivate and retain a talented workforce. Founded in 1955, WorldatWork has nearly 30,000 members in more than 100 countries. |
| International Association for Financial Participation (IAFP) | The IAFP is a non-profit association which promotes wider employee financial participation and share ownership in an employer’s business, through support and information sharing among national associations, employers and interested academics. The IAFP is based in Paris. The EOA is a member of the IAFP. You can see details of our most recent meeting here. |
