(add crowd sourcing aspect to this)

Survey of Efforts with stated missions of improving the world

Notable FB comment - "a locally sustainable comfortable life has been the ideal way of living through out history, everyone from Voltaire to Cobbett has thought so."
http://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/24/03/2015/capitalism%E2%80%99s-unfree-global-workforce
More: [3] + [4]

Theory of Transformation - [5]
Freedom: the End of the Human Condition - [6]
Toby Heneway -
Chris Martenson Crash Course - [7]
http://www.appropedia.org/Feeding_Everyone_No_Matter_What
The Infrastructures of Democracy Project - by the Martin Prosperity Institute [8]. Appears to be asking relevant questions about underlying structures.
Wants to double the size of the middle class in Peru - [9]
TZM
Russell Brand, Revolution
Chayanov, 1960, seminal work on Economy of Affection?
Goran Hyden, 1980 and the 2005 work on Economy of Affection - [10]
American Dream revisited - John Robb - http://www.homefreeamerica.us/

Analysis

American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century - [11]
Eugene McCarraher - end capitalism in The Nation - [12]
Eugene McCarraher - Christian Critics: Religion and the Impasse in Modern American Social Thought -[13]

Succcess in one location - money pours in - scaled failure model for charitable aid - [14]

Australia and Canada have done away with their international development agencies altogether, absorbing them into mega-ministries covering foreign affairs and trade.
Poor Economics, sort of the Principia Mathematica of “obvious” development interventions tested and found wanting.
Book - With Charity For All on the failures of aid.
On Jeffrey Sachs, Millenium Villages - The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty - huge failure according to this article, but not according to Wikipedia
If we believe that trade is important, we could do more to open our own markets to trade from developing countries. If we believe property rights are important, we could do more to enforce the principle that nations, not illegitimate leaders, own their own natural resources. ... If we believe transparency is important, we could start by requiring our own companies to publish the details of the payments they make to developing countries.

Instead of 'redistributive' economic policy of governments, the next economy may benefit from being 'distributive.' This addresses the distribution of wealth directly, as opposed to the coerced collection of wealth by a third party, followed by redistribution. The former appears to be more favorable, as it tends to a greater equality of wealth - in addition to being nonviolent (non-coercive).
For making a better world to succeed, a set of deep principles must be met. Can these principles be identified in met in future projects? Has OSE identified these principles and is OSE carrying these out in its work?