Capitalizing Quality Jobs: New Investment Models for Worker Prosperity

Creating good jobs requires reshaping the financial incentives of business. This session brings together three practitioners deploying distinct sources of capital to put workers at the center. Apis & Heritage uses social impact private equity to convert legacy businesses into employee-owned enterprises, building wealth for low-income workers. Nine Dean deploys permanent capital to acquire and hold companies long-term. B Lab leverages performance standards and certification to build an ecosystem of purpose-driven companies accountable to workers. Together, they show how philanthropy, impact investors, and field-builders can make quality jobs an intentional output of investment design — not a hoped-for side effect.