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title: "15 U.S.C. § 6903"
description: "Uses of assistance"
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title_number: 15
title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
chapter_number: "95"
chapter_name: "MICROENTERPRISE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM"
section: "6903"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 6903"
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release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
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# 15 U.S.C. § 6903 - Uses of assistance

## Text

A qualified organization shall use grants made under this chapter—

(1) to provide training and technical assistance to disadvantaged entrepreneurs;

(2) to provide training and capacity building services to microenterprise development organizations and programs and groups of such organizations to assist such organizations and programs in developing microenterprise training and services;

(3) to aid in researching and developing the best practices in the field of microenterprise and technical assistance programs for disadvantaged entrepreneurs; and

(4) for such other activities as the Administrator determines are consistent with the purposes of this chapter.

(Pub. L. 103–325, title I, § 174, as added Pub. L. 106–102, title VII, § 725, Nov. 12, 1999, 113 Stat. 1473.)