and community arts development grants. The one figure that I'm most proud of is that we delivered $744,433 directly to artists. That in large part is thanks to the investment that St. Joseph Healthcare, now Kentucky One, made in buying Kentucky art for their hospitals. That represents almost half that amount. We were also able to work with the Department of Environmental Quality and Public Works and put $300,000 into grants for eco-art projects. So we have been able to work with our partners in the public sector and in the private sector to make great investments in this community, and I think it has paid off. We have seen an emergence in the past few years of really incredible work. When my firm, Bingham McCutcheon, decided to establish our Global Services Center in Lexington last year, the quality of life in the communities we explored was a key intangible factor that supplemented our quantitative business analysis. During the final stages of our search process that involved more than 350 U.S. cities, it became apparent that Lexington had a remarkably vibrant and impressive array of arts and cultural institutions for a city of its size. And that made a difference to us. But why did it? Why did a strong arts community in Lexington matter to our firm? And more importantly, why do the arts help all of us achieve a better quality of life? It's not just about our local entertainment choices, although that does help on a Saturday night. It's about whether and how we grow, both as a community and as individuals. Many studies have shown that exposure to the arts and facilitating artistic expression help our children achieve more in school and develop skills like cooperation, decision-making, and perseverance, all of which are so incredibly critical to their success as adult workers in a knowledge-based economy. The kids who are exposed to arts at an early age inevitably grow up to become more valuable, thoughtful, and often more highly educated workers and citizens. On a macro level, a healthy arts community helps Lexington not only cultivate its own strong local workforce, but to attract and retain a strong professional workforce and new businesses, just like mine, from outside the region. This, in turn, influences and enables our own children to decide to stay in Lexington, to work, to live, and to raise their own families here. First conversation that I had with Jim, he diagnosed something. He diagnosed a symptom about Lexington that, you know, I, perhaps many of you hadn't recognized. He said, you know, this is a, this is an arts community where production, arts production, is at the top. And, you know, he was acknowledging consumption as well, but, you know, consumption is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is,