Another issue is that only people who knew about the impact purchase during a project could have been influenced by it.
Maybe you addressed this and I missed it, but it seems like the “end state” of a push for more impact purchase would be a world with enough purchasing that people would constantly be motivated to work on impactful projects.
A market where many people purchase impact across a wide range of projects is one where you can feel confident about finding people who may want to purchase yours, assuming you’ve done enough good—even if the project you started with wasn’t something developed to match a specific purchase(r).
That’s how most markets work; you create a product for which you know there is general demand, then hope you can find the right customers to sell to—trusting that there are enough customers around that some of them will want to buy your thing.
Of course, transitioning from “no impact purchase” to “so much impact purchase that people can feel safe bringing their projects into the ‘market’” sounds difficult. But that’s how I picture the best potential outcome for advocates of impact purchase.
Maybe you addressed this and I missed it, but it seems like the “end state” of a push for more impact purchase would be a world with enough purchasing that people would constantly be motivated to work on impactful projects.
A market where many people purchase impact across a wide range of projects is one where you can feel confident about finding people who may want to purchase yours, assuming you’ve done enough good—even if the project you started with wasn’t something developed to match a specific purchase(r).
That’s how most markets work; you create a product for which you know there is general demand, then hope you can find the right customers to sell to—trusting that there are enough customers around that some of them will want to buy your thing.
Of course, transitioning from “no impact purchase” to “so much impact purchase that people can feel safe bringing their projects into the ‘market’” sounds difficult. But that’s how I picture the best potential outcome for advocates of impact purchase.
I guess that seems so far off that I wasn’t focusing on it. I’m more interesting in how to establish a working impact purchase in the mean time.