Interest in our program has never been stronger; we have started our 59th 9-week session of our Basic Business Skills Training Course, which currently has approximately 400 graduates. Sixty of those graduates are currently operating 50 small businesses within the Greater Syracuse area. The capital investment, profits and jobs created by these small local businesses benefit the very communities that need them most, those that are underserved or disadvantaged. Proven programs like Appleseed Trust make sense now more than ever to encourage further growth in small businesses, especially considering that the majority of new job creation as well as overall employment is now concentrated in the small, rather than corporate, business sector.