Funding is the basis of every profit or non-profit organization. We are faced with growing economic stress and it can have a dramatic impact to how programs continue to operate. Grants are needed to begin funding of the program. Acquiring funding from the inception of the program will insure that the program has a good foundation for providing the necessary service to the community. Grants could be sought at other times during the programs life as the cost increases. Attending to a larger community, staff salaries, rent, and expenses would have a large affect on a set budget. Seeking other funding and grants would help offset the continued expenses. Grants are important to the success of all programs but some require more funding than others. Some human service programs are only a temporary service. Those short-term services usually target someone in certain short termed situation or need. This would require less funding. An ongoing or long-term service would defiantly need to acquire more funding to be able to provide a service throughout the years. An example of this would be Medicare that assists by providing medical care due to an ongoing illness or a disability. Right now, just over 1 billion people—about 15 percent of the people in the world—live in extreme poverty. On most days, they worry about whether their family will have enough food to eat. There is irony in this, since most of them live and work on farms. The problem is that their farms, which tend to be just a couple acres in size, don’t produce enough food for a family to live on.” Bill Gates

Bill and Melinda Gate believe in using their fortune and fortunate circumstances, to help others in the United States and in the world. They believe that when each person that lives in the United States, has the opportunity to develop their talents, society will thrive. They also want to help the rest of the world as well. Their Global Health Program harnesses advances in science and technology to save the lives of those in poor countries. They want to focus on the health problems that have a major impact in developing countries but are not getting enough attention and funding. Using the latest tools—seeds, vaccines, AIDS drugs, and contraceptives, for example, they have made impressive progress. “If we don’t make these success stories widely known, we won’t generate the funding commitments needed to maintain progress and save lives”, (Bill Gates Foundation, 2012). With the programs that have been funded and produced by Bill Gates and others on his developmental team, we can help save people and our world from suffering, disease, and death. Bill and Melinda Gates began their work to expand their knowledge and pass on their help to underprivileged people here in the United States and around the world in 1994. That is when Bill began focusing on global health with the Bill Gates Foundation. He is not just funding programs under his name; Mr. Gates also helps to devise program strategies and is a part of the grant making process that helps others succeed. In 1997 he-7