my name is viva mogey. i'm currently serving as the interim chair for spark sf. i know that some of the board members here with actually very familiar with spark sf as you've attended some of our events supported as with funding relations and even served as board members of spark sf. so today's goal is to get everyone on the same page and give you a progress report to our fund raising for fiscal year 2017-18. we will go over who we are, what we do, our current funding progress, and then i'll close with some questions in the end. let's just quickly begin with who we are. spark sf was established during the vision 2025 process to essentially be the fund raising arm for the district. we also have a board of directors who advise and support us with district fund raising efforts and make sure these efforts are aligned with the district's statrategic goa. and so how does spark sf support sfusd. as we mentioned before, we are the fund raising arm for the district, so 96% of our fund raising efforts are funded directly back to the district. accountablity. spark is govern