This is a good question. An area that I think we all struggle with is to determine exactly the impact we're having, and especially on a kind of macro basis, where it gets particularly difficult.
The approach we have on funding each of our projects is that we identify a set of measures that we use for that project. Some of them are common measures, so that we can add them up to bring to committees such as this, and others are specific to particular projects. For example, with the community futures program, we could report on how many jobs and how many loans have been created through that program.
I think my friend Ryan may have a couple of numbers that I could share with you.
By way of example, I talked a little, I think in response to an earlier question, about the importance of increasing international trade and exports by small businesses. We reported, and I guess it would be for this year and the fourth quarter of last year, some $60 million of new trade opportunities that were created by our companies, $72 million of activities by SMEs on international business.
I think there is a body of evidence that our programs are in fact making a difference in a measurable way.