I mentioned this in an email to you, but thought I’d leave it in a comment here as well just to make other readers aware of the initiative: BOAS does something similar, in the niche of sustainable baby and kids products. They started out fairly recently and have already donated 2,000 EUR to effective charities. I will check if Vincent who founded BOAS has an account here on the forum, and if so, ask him to make some general comments in this thread, on his experience.
I am thinking a good direction for the Consumer Power Initiative is going to be aggregating and making people become aware of Guiding Producers such as BOAS. I want to have something similar to BOAS for the States called The Giving Store.
Once we have enough awareness and get a movement going, get some experts studying the market areas where Guiding Producers would have the greatest advantage, and then fundraise to either buy out firms for charities or create our own.
I mentioned this in an email to you, but thought I’d leave it in a comment here as well just to make other readers aware of the initiative: BOAS does something similar, in the niche of sustainable baby and kids products. They started out fairly recently and have already donated 2,000 EUR to effective charities. I will check if Vincent who founded BOAS has an account here on the forum, and if so, ask him to make some general comments in this thread, on his experience.
Thanks for mentioning us Markus! I’ll need some time to properly read and digest this, but will reply in full after!
I am thinking a good direction for the Consumer Power Initiative is going to be aggregating and making people become aware of Guiding Producers such as BOAS. I want to have something similar to BOAS for the States called The Giving Store.
Once we have enough awareness and get a movement going, get some experts studying the market areas where Guiding Producers would have the greatest advantage, and then fundraise to either buy out firms for charities or create our own.