Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)

Kellen Company

http://www.kellencompany.com

The Kellen Company is an employee-owned professional services company that has provided a full range of management, consulting and specialty services to associations and businesses since 1964. Kellen employs 195 worldwide, with offices in Atlanta, Brussels, New York, Tucson and Washington, D.C. Read more about Kellen Company...

Rural Utilities Service

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is a series of programs that help utilities providers in rural areas expand and keep their facilities current. The RUS programs assist electric providers, water suppliers, telecommunications companies, and distance learning and telemedicine providers. In FY 2008, it received $655 million in budgetary authority and had $9.753 billion in loan authority. Read more about Rural Utilities Service...

National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)

The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), which was formed in 1970, is an independent federal agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. Read more about National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) ...

ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) tax policy

An Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) is a type of employee benefit plan in which employees receive an ownership stake in the company where they work through the receipt of stock. Unlike stock options, with a few exceptions (such as if a union opts not to participate), ESOPs by law must provide shares to all full-time company employees. Read more about ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) tax policy...

Cooperation Works! & the USDA Rural Cooperative Development Grant Program

Awarded under a competitive process by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Rural Cooperative Development grants fund technical assistance centers that support the development of cooperative businesses. The majority of grant recipients are members of a national network of technical assistance centers known as Cooperation Works! Federal funding for rural cooperative development grants from FY 2003 to FY 2009 had been at a steady level of $6-6.5 million a year. In FY 2010, however, Congress increased funding to $11.8 million. Read more about Cooperation Works! & the USDA Rural Cooperative Development Grant Program...

John Logue

John Logue is Founder and Executive Director of the Ohio Employee Ownership Center, based at Kent State University. Over its first 20 years has helped more than 81 companies became partly or wholly employee owned, creating 14,685 new employee owners. Follow-up research on data through 2003 for 49 of these firms found that they had created $349 million in equity for their employee owners. interview-logue.doc Read more about John Logue...