We’re on a mission to preserve and protect the job and community impacts of small and medium sized businesses throughout the state of North Carolina by helping to transition many to employee ownership.
Anne-Claire Broughton tells the story of the founding of the North Carolina Employee Ownership Center
Anne-Claire Broughton, Merald Holloway, and La-Tasha Best-Gaddy tell the story of the founding of the North Carolina Employee Ownership Center
Staff
Anne-Claire Broughton
Founder & Interim Executive Director
Anne-Claire Broughton
Founder & Interim Executive Director
Anne-Claire Broughton has spent more than 10 years assisting business owners with ownership transitions via ESOPs, Employee Ownership Trusts, and worker cooperatives. She advised The Electric Violin Shop in its 2016 transition to a worker cooperative, ShopBot Tools with its 2021 transition to an employee ownership trust, and Sow True Seed with its 2021 transition to a worker cooperative.
She is a co-author of Using an Employee Ownership Trust for Business Transition, a book published by the National Center For Employee Ownership. Broughton is also an expert in ownership culture development as a certified open book management coach with The Great Game of Business. She previously spent more than 13 years advising early stage businesses as Co-Founder and Senior Director of SJF Institute. Anne-Claire holds a BA from Oberlin College and a certificate in nonprofit management from Duke University. In her spare time, Anne-Claire enjoys playing the violin, singing, hiking, and spending time with her young adult daughter.
Latisha Dutch
Program Associate
Latisha Dutch
Program Associate
With nearly 20 years of expertise in nonprofit management, Latisha Dutch brings a wealth of experience in fostering operational efficiency and strategic planning for professional associations.
Her background in accounting, finance, and human capital management, combined with her passion for event and program coordination, uniquely equips her to support the mission of the North Carolina Employee Ownership Center (NCEOC). She excels at partnering with organizations to develop and execute strategic roadmaps, ensuring smooth event planning, database management, and relationship building. Latisha holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA from North Carolina Central University. When she's not supporting NCEOC's mission, you can find her riding motorcycles or spending quality time with her 13-year-old son.
Board Of Directors
Andrew Foster
Board Member
Clinical Professor of Law & Director of Community Enterprise Clinic, Duke Law
FOUNDING FUNDERS AND PARTNERS
If you are an individual or company residing in North Carolina and would like to support us in our mission, you can donate here.
Mission
The North Carolina Employee Ownership Center (NCEOC) serves as the central hub for employee-owned businesses in North Carolina. Its primary mission is to educate business owners and their advisors (lawyers, bankers, accountants, wealth advisors) on the benefits of employee ownership via Employees Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), worker cooperatives, and Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs). NCEOCprovides resources, case studies, and articles, and a list of service providers who can assist with employee ownership transitions. NCEOC serves the entire state of North Carolina, with a particular focus on outreach to minority-owned businesses.
By-Laws and Values
1) A commitment to equity and inclusion. Our bylaws include a specific commitment to serving minority-owned businesses and businesses with 50% or greater employees of color.
2) Serving the entire state of North Carolina. We have board representation from the east to the west of North Carolina and serve both urban and rural communities throughout the state.
3) Focus on closing wealth gaps. Our passion for employee ownership stems from a desire to build and retain wealth for low-income workers and workers of color and to empower workers at all levels.
4) Walk the talk. We contract and purchase from employee-owned and minority- and woman-owned companies and seek to partner with like-minded organizations.
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