What would count as progress
Costed source-level plans for specific problems, judged by independent experts, and a record of what happened when such plans were funded.
Why it matters
Humanity’s Checklist points out that hundreds of billions of dollars go to charity every year, and asks what would happen if $5 million, spent correctly, were enough to go after the six sources upstream of every world problem. Charitology treats that as a hypothesis to test, not a slogan. If money really isn’t the bottleneck, the field should find out what is.
Where to start
Pick one problem, write the source-level plan, cost it, fund it and publish what happens, including if it fails.