The Vermont Employee Ownership Center is a statewide non-profit whose mission is to promote and foster employee ownership in order to broaden capital ownership, deepen employee participation, retain jobs, increase living standards for working families, and stabilize communities. We provide information and resources to owners interested in selling their business to their employees, employee groups interested in purchasing a business, and entrepreneurs who wish to start up a company with broadly shared ownership.
Pay Rate: $15/hour
Hours Per Week: 10
Start Date: As early as March 1, 2020
End Date: August 28, 2020
Maximum Budgeted Hours: 300
Vermont Employee Ownership Center is hiring an intern to assist our team in diverse initiatives and tasks, with a particular focus on communications and program support.
We recently added three new interviews to our EO Convos video series! You can check them out below, and can view all the interviews on the series page on Youtube.
February 18, 2020, 1:00pm to 4:00pm
In this seminar, you will learn the basics of how to choose a path for ownership succession in your business. We will take a close look at four different ways of selling a business: to an outside buyer, to family members, to managers or to the larger group of employees. John Davis of Davis & Hodgdon Associates, a CPA with expertise in business valuation and exit planning, will be our lead presenter, and Don Jamison from the Vermont Employee Ownership Center will present a segment on selling a company to its employees. While we will get into some technical details, the focus will be on stories about each path, told by owners who have been involved in the sale of Vermont businesses.
February 18, 2020, 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Starting to think about ownership succession for your business? This FREE seminar offers the opportunity to learn about the possibility of selling to the employees! Presented by the Vermont Employee Ownership Center and the Cooperative Fund of New England, attendees will get an overview of the two most common forms of broad-based employee ownership used for ownership succession: Employee Stock Ownership Plans and Worker Cooperatives. The session will also include a discussion of the process by which a sale to employees commonly occurs, with a focus on making financing work for employee groups of modest means. The event is free, but seating is limited, so please register ASAP! The seminar is co-presented by the Northeast Vermont Development Association, Vermont Small Business Development Center, and the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development. Note: If this event has to be postponed due to weather, a make-up is scheduled for Friday, 2/21 from 2-4pm at the same location. If this happens, we'll aim to notify attendees the day prior.
April 1, 2020, 2:00pm to 5:00pm
In this seminar, you will learn the basics of how to choose a path for ownership succession in your business. We will take a close look at four different ways of selling a business: to an outside buyer, to family members, to managers or to the larger group of employees. Lynne Silva of The Silva Group, a business broker with expertise in business valuation and exit planning, will be our lead presenter, and Matt Cropp from the Vermont Employee Ownership Center will present a segment on selling a company to its employees. While we will get into some technical details, the focus will be on stories about each path, told by owners who have been involved in the sale of Vermont businesses.
Vermont Employee Ownership Center, P.O. Box 546, Burlington, VT 05402
Tel: 802-338-7448 E-mail: info@veoc.org
