the ceo of ne community federal credit union. since 1988, she has been the ceo of northwest community federal credit union. under her watch, the credit union group to over 1600 members. it has become the national model for institutions seeking to provide financial education and banking services to the low- income communities. last but not least, we have our conditional lender represented here by wells fargo. mark cyrus is the senior fda banker for the region -- the senior sba banker. he held businesses choose the best loans for the growing business and focus on a comprehensive understanding of their goals for their business. mark is responsible for helping entrepreneurs with sba loans every step of the way. i would like each of you to speak a little bit about what your organization does and, more importantly, address the audience here and let them know what your looking for when you are hoping to fund their loan. we will start with you, mark. >> absolutely. thank you. i want to thank speaker pelosi for putting this together. i want to thank all of the of for coming out on a smell it -- snowy san francisco date. [laughter] we've been told we shou

the lgbt community. yes. [cheers and applause] yes. to the women's groups. [cheers and applause] to the environmental groups. [cheers and applause] to the ministers, i'm so grateful. to the credit unionso the more than 700 small businesses supporting us, to the student organizers, to the democratic town committees, all of you, all of you, all of you have had my back, and i promise you, i will have your back. i promise. i want to thank the single best grass-roots army that any state has ever seen. [cheers and applause] for every volunteer who knocked on doors, who stood in the rain and held signs, who talked to their neighbors, and to my incredible staff that worked more hours than i thought was humanly possible -- [cheers and applause] thank you, thank you, thank you, all of you. [applause] and to everyone who shared your hopes and dreams with me and put your faith in my ability to fight for you, i want you to know this. i will never forget. i will always carry your stories with me in your heart. i won't just be your senator. i will be your champion. [cheers and applause] i promise. i promise. ok. so, tonight is not over because we still have a lot of celebrating to do, yes? [cheers a

place it just got to be more widespread every time we patronize a credit union or community bank we weaken the bank of america and citi group the giant banks every time we go to farmer's market we weaken the agribusiness corporations every time we have a community health clinic with emphasis on prevention nutrition exercise participatory sports we're undermining the drug companies say. and the hospital chains every time we develop renewable energy which is now local can being a wind power etc we're undermining the sales of exxon in peabody coal what's not to like when you have community economies no financier in london tokyo or new york can pull the rug out from under a whole community hollowed out and ship the jobs to fascists in communist regimes overseas who know how to put their workers in their place yeah indeed and in fact wouldn't to another piece of that be to put the solar panels on everybody's rough lead and that's part of local generation exactly where the consumer begins producing again right your third chapter is give science and technology back to the people well when did the people on it when was it taken fro

the lgbt community. yes. [cheers and applause] yes. to the women's groups. [cheers and applause] to the environmental groups. [cheers and applause] to the ministers, i'm so grateful. to the credit unions. yes. to the more than 700 small businesses supporting us, to the student organizers, to the democratic town committees, all of you, all of you, all of you have had my back, and i promise you, i will have your back. i promise. i want to thank the single best grass-roots army that any state has ever seen. [cheers and applause] for every volunteer who knocked on doors, who stood in the rain and held signs, who talked to their neighbors, and to my incredible staff that worked more hours than i thought was humanly possible -- [cheers and applause] thank you, thank you, thank you, all of you. and to everyone who shared your hopes and dreams with me and put your faith in my ability to fight for you, i want you to know this. i will never forget. i will always carry your stories with me in your heart. i won't just be your senator. i will be your champion. [cheers and applause] i promise. ok. so, tonight is not over because we still have a lot of celebrating to do, yes? [cheers and applause] b

the lgbt community. yes. [cheers and applause] yes. groups.omen's [cheers and applause] to the environmental groups. [cheers and applause] to the ministers, i'm so grateful. to the credit unionso the more than 700 small businesses supporting us, to the student organizers, to the democratic town committees, all of you, all of you, all of you have had my back, and i promise you, i will have your back. i promise. i want to thank the single best grass-roots army that any state has ever seen. [cheers and applause] for every volunteer who knocked on doors, who stood in the rain and held signs, who talked to their neighbors, and to my incredible staff that worked more hours than i thought was humanly possible -- [cheers and applause] thank you, thank you, thank you, all of you. and to everyone who shared your hopes and dreams with me and put your faith in my ability to fight for you, i want you to know this. i will never forget. i will always carry your stories with me in your heart. i won't just be your senator. i will be your champion. [cheers and applause] i promise. ok. so, tonight is not over because we still have a lot of celebrating to do, yes? [cheers and applause] but i wan