| The Gates foundation grants are named after Bill | | | | programs under it. Some of them are the Global |
| Gates and Melinda Gates. It is considered to be the | | | | Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations, Children's |
| largest private foundation in the entire world. The | | | | Vaccine Program, University of Washington |
| very reputed lineage of the Gates family runs this | | | | Department of Global Health, HIV research, aeras |
| foundation. The Gates foundation grant performs | | | | global TB vaccine foundation and visceral leishmaniasis |
| with certain goals. It aims at fulfilling the needs of the | | | | research. |
| impoverished and wishes to reduce the poverty. | | | | The global development program is driven by |
| It also tries to improve the scope of education in | | | | President Sylvia Mathews and it gives primary |
| America. The Gates foundation grants were founded | | | | importance to the poor and destitute. It has several |
| in the year of 1994 and have got its headquarters in | | | | grants programs such as the financial access initiative, |
| Seattle, Washington. This foundation is a charitable | | | | pro mujer and grameen foundation. All these |
| organization and has helped various people in need. In | | | | programs fall under that of the financial services for |
| order to sustain itself as a charitable organization it | | | | the poor. |
| has to keep on donating 5% of its assets each and | | | | Under the agricultural development programs comes |
| every year. | | | | the rice research and alliance for a green revolution in |
| The Gates foundation grants have three | | | | Africa or AGRA. Then there is also something called |
| grant-making programs. The names of these | | | | the Global Special Initiatives. Under this program there |
| programs are Global heath program, Global | | | | are other sub programs like that for the Indian Ocean |
| development program and United States program. | | | | earthquake, Kashmiri earthquake and water and |
| The Global health program has other significant grants | | | | hygiene sanitation. |