42 U.S.C. § 9810: Financial assistance to low-income families, local cooperative associations, and local public or private nonprofit organizations or entities; amount, purposes, etc.

acquire or improve real estate or reduce encumbrances or erect improvements thereon; operate or improve the operation of farms not larger than family sized, including but not limited to the purchase of feed, seed, fertilizer, livestock, poultry, and equipment; or participate in cooperative associations, or finance nonagricultral 1 enterprises which will enable such families to supplement their income. 1 So in original. Probably should be “nonagricultural”. administrative costs of staff and overhead; costs of planning and developing new enterprises; costs of acquiring technical assistance; and initial capital where it is determined by the Secretary that the poverty of the families participating in the program and the social conditions of the rural area require such assistance.