My wife and I have been donating an increasing percentage of our yearly gross income to effective aid organizations: http://blog.printf.net/articles/2012/11/27

My wife and I have been donating an increasing percentage of our yearly gross income to effective aid organizations: http://blog.printf.net/articles/2012/11/27/celebrating-seven-years-with-seven-percent/ http://blog.printf.net/articles/2012/11/27/celebrating-seven... Earning a tech worker salary and giving a significant amount of it towards poverty relief is better than most alternative ideas I've been able to think of. The other good idea is to follow GiveWell very closely: http://www.givewell.org/ http://www.givewell.org/ If you want to do something with code.. I'm optimistic that people would donate more if they could feel an emotional connection to the people they're helping, and the internet can help with that, so anything that removes barriers like http://kiva.org http://kiva.org or http://watsi.org http://watsi.org seems promising.