About Pledge

 

The Family Business Pledge invites families to help themselves and their local economy by starting, growing, or supporting a family business. Families taking the pledge embrace the original meaning of economics which is the management of the household to increase its use value to all members over the long run.

 

Given this original meaning of economics, families agree that they are the center of economic activity.

 

In taking the pledge, families commit to taking personal responsibility for the economic future of its members.

 

Families commit to using their creative energies, resources, gifts, and talents to create a better future for themselves and their community by starting, growing or supporting a family business.