our first speaker is julie gerkey, senior director of the wal-mart foundation who leads the business integration team and the wal-mart foundation has funded initiatives focused on education, work force development, economic opportunity, environmental sustainability, and health and wellness pretty company has pledged $2 billion that is billion way 'b' to 500 through 2015. in july, 2011, the wal-mart contribution was named by the committee of philanthropy. prior to joining wal-mart, ms. gerkey work on issues of anti- racism and other issues. she has done program evaluation in kenya and tanzania and taught english in eastern europe and she has a bachelor's degree in religion from rhodes college and a master of arts and public service from the clinton school of public service at the university of arkansas. thank you for joining us and please allow me to express my own personal gratitude and ginger's gratitude for the generous support of wal-mart to be no kid hungry campaign. the dedication to young people and the commitment to improving their lives is not something we take lightly and so