What Gates mentions in that article was brought up by many in the past; e.g. "Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There is Another Way for Africa"[1]. Per

What Gates mentions in that article was brought up by many in the past; e.g. "Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There is Another Way for Africa"[1]. Personally I prefer to donate to small micro-funding campaigns or lean, local NGOs. In case of disaster relief I still might donate to Red Cross though. One of the services which I recently started using and really enjoy the way it works is One Today[2] by Google. All in all, it's always helpful to look at the numbers[3] to make sure that your donations are not used to rent fancy offices in downtown London or NYC. [1]: http://www.dambisamoyo.com/books-and-publications/book/dead-aid http://www.dambisamoyo.com/books-and-publications/book/dead-... [2]: http://www.google.com/onetoday/ http://www.google.com/onetoday/ [3]: http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=3277#.Ut7yo9LTlYg http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary... Edit: Formatting, grammar.