“Quite ironically, the answer to ineffective philanthropy is more of it: the failure of philanthropy is its own success. The perceived necessity — even the indispensability — of a donor like the Gates Foundation grows in proportion to its own inability to achieve the unachievable: mitigating the very inequalities that its own presence might be inadvertently compounding.” PhilanthropyIneffective Book:No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy Source: No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy