the sfeda, member organizations have had a combined impact on san francisco. last year sfeda, member organizations supported 2,500 small businesses which created over 1 new jobs and retained an additional 2,000 jobs. we did this with just over $1 million of city funding from the office of economic and workforce development fund which enabled us to also leverage an additionalle $4.5 million of funding so we could invest in micro enterprise and small business support in san francisco. i'd like to acknowledge the roll of the small business assistance center and their partnering with their san francisco san francisco alliance in helping us to get the word out of our coalition organization. and now i'm going to switch hats and tell you a little bit of working solutions as i am the executive director of working solutions. working solution has a lot of great sort of interesting updates to provide. but tonight, i just wanted to share three in particular with you. we provide micro loans of $5,000 to $50,000 to small businesses, plus five years of business coaching, adv

work very closely with all these organizations and the one thing that is really terrific about the sfeda is in many other types of fields where we have our community-based organizations, they don't work cooperatively together to provide the best level of service. and you know, it really speaks to our economic development organizations coming together, collectively meeting, figuring out what's the best way to work together to provide services for our small businesses and developing, you know, area where is they have a particular -- they might have a more skilled program and then allowing another organization to work on its skilled program. so -- which service our business community much better. and it's been a valuable resource for us because when we see clients, one of the first things we really stress out is how well -- do they have their business plan? do they understand their financing before they start going down the road of really looking for a space, getting their permits? and twhout resource, it's a valuable resource for us to be able to direct these individuals to be able to get