15 U.S.C. § 6903

to provide training and technical assistance to disadvantaged entrepreneurs;

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;

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

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