Curriculum Library on Employee Ownership, is a free online repository of teaching and background materials on employee ownership. Through the collaboration of the Foundation for Enterprise Development (FED), the Employee Ownership Foundation, and the Aspen Institute, CLEO was originally launched in October of 2008. For eight years it resided at Aspen Institute's CasePlace.org and grew to have more than 700 teaching materials, including videos, cases, syllabi, teaching modules, and reading collections, with thousands of downloads per year by researchers, teachers, and companies. Now residing at Rutgers University's School of Management and Labor Relations, CLEO will continue to grow and serve the community.

Case Studies

• DPR Construction
• New Belgium
• Namaste Solar

Employee Ownership is when a company is owned, either in part or in whole, by its employees. While employee ownership comes in many shapes and sizes - including the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), various forms of stock ownership, co-operatives, profit sharing and many other combinations - the underlying goal is unwavering: to motivate and incentivize employees through ownership as a mechanism for increased company performance.

Thriving successfully in a global economy requires new business models and strategies to keep the "American Dream" - opportunity and economic prosperity – alive and well. Employee Ownership is one such business model that, in times of both economic challenges and prosperity, lays the groundwork for a sustainable enterprise. In We the Owners, several successful models of employee ownership are profiled and explored to unveil how these approaches to voice, vote and shared ownership positively impact wealth creation and distribution.

Whether you are a student learning about this, an entrepreneur starting-up a company, or an existing business considering employee ownership, we hope this documentary will be the beginning of a robust dialogue about the power of employee ownership, and we encourage you to tap into the resources compiled on this page (service organizations, cases, videos, books) to learn more.

• Beyster Institute
• NCEO
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) Association
• Aspen Institute Business & Society Program
• Ohio Employee Ownership Center
• CONNECT
• Kelso Institute
• Baxendale
• Praxis Consulting
• Ownership Associates
• CSRwire
• Center for Economic and Social Justice
• Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center