15 USC § 6904 - Qualified organizations

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identifier: "/us/usc/t15/s6904"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "15 USC § 6904 - Qualified organizations"
title_number: 15
title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
section_number: "6904"
section_name: "Qualified organizations"
chapter_number: 95
chapter_name: "MICROENTERPRISE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 103–325, title I, § 175, as added Pub. L. 106–102, title VII, § 725, Nov. 12, 1999, 113 Stat. 1473.)"
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# § 6904. Qualified organizations

For purposes of eligibility for assistance under this chapter, a qualified organization shall be—

**(1)** a nonprofit microenterprise development organization or program (or a group or collaborative thereof) that has a demonstrated record of delivering microenterprise services to disadvantaged entrepreneurs;

**(2)** an intermediary;

**(3)** a microenterprise development organization or program that is accountable to a local community, working in conjunction with a State or local government or Indian tribe; or

**(4)** an Indian tribe acting on its own, if the Indian tribe can certify that no private organization or program referred to in this paragraph exists within its jurisdiction.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 103–325, title I, § 175, as added Pub. L. 106–102, title VII, § 725, Nov. 12, 1999, 113 Stat. 1473.)