The social services market involves social services and related goods and food supplies, education, health care, disaster relief activities and housing services offered by private or government establishments to improve living conditions and social well-being of under privileged children, disabled, elderly and the poor in a community. The social services market is at its fastest supported by the government funding. Major players in the global social services market include Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Food Programme, UNICEF, University of California System, The Salvation Army. The Business Research Company covers 47 markets overall in the social services market providing global market numbers, market growth, market-specific drivers and restraints, trends, and other market specific information.