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Project Equity

Project Equity is a US nonprofit supporting employee-ownership transitions, education and local implementation. The assessment concerns its capacity and ownership-change model, not investment returns or a claim that every employee-owned firm has democratic control.

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Systemic Altruism practice potential: 76–86/100
90% of weighted axes reviewed. A mechanism hypothesis, not proven effectiveness or a donation recommendation.

Who this work enables

Tools & support for charities: Transition guidance, business-adviser learning and shared employee-ownership knowledge can help local implementers avoid rebuilding every ownership-conversion process.

Humanity’s Checklist source match

Gatekeepers · Coordination — editorial, partial alignment.

The model seeks to change ownership access and coordinate transitions among workers, owners and local institutions. This is a partial Gatekeepers/Coordination interpretation, not proof of worker power or checklist adoption.

Explicit checklist adoption: not verified. A mechanism match is not an affiliation, endorsement, evidence of effectiveness or a scoring bonus. Read the practice.

Focus classification: 2026-10-27. Based on the organization’s dated official sources below; earlier axis-review dates are unchanged.

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The proposed pathway

Build capacity for transitions to employee ownership

Six dimensions, with rationale

Structural depth

4 / 4

Employee-ownership transitions seek to alter ownership and economic incentives rather than only supplement individual incomes.

Institutional reach

3 / 4

Shared transition support and regional learning can serve multiple firms and local economic institutions, though the scale of durable worker benefit was not audited.

Durability

3 / 4

Enforceable ownership arrangements can endure beyond one grant, but governance quality, finance and business survival determine durability.

Scalability

3 / 4

Transition methods can be reused, while valuation, financing, owner negotiations, worker participation and sector conditions require substantial local work.

Funding additionality

Unreviewed

No current marginal transition-support funding gap or counterfactual between charitable subsidy, advisers and available financing was audited.

Community agency

Unreviewed

Employee ownership and self-determination aims do not establish actual worker voting rights in every supported firm or affected-community authority over the nonprofit.

Evidence and selection

Organization reported; current primary mechanism sources inspected

Illustrative inclusion to examine this mechanism. Inclusion is not an external recommendation or a verified comparative ranking.

A testable next question

Do supported transitions produce independently verified, durable improvements in worker wealth and enforceable decision rights relative to plausible succession alternatives, after accounting for acquisition debt, business survival and adviser costs?

Review confidence: Moderate for documented design; low for systemic attribution. The current US nonprofit Project Equity, EIN 86-2938689, and its transition-support and shared-learning work. This is not an assessment of all employee-ownership funds, clients or ownership structures.

What remains uncertain

Current primary pages identify the US 501(c)(3), EIN 86-2938689; this is not independent current tax-eligibility or financial certification. Older fiscal-sponsor descriptions are not substituted for that current identity. The 2024 annual-report PDF could not be retrieved directly in this check, so its reported independence timeline is not used as verified evidence here. Employee ownership structures differ: ownership is not automatically democratic management, safe financing or equitable allocation. Business continuity, purchase price, debt, worker rights and distributional outcomes require separate review. No software license was inspected, and this is not legal or investment advice or a forecast of returns.

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Axis review: 2026-10-27 · weighting method v0.2 (2026-10-26) · Method, conflicts and coverage