The purposes of ORS 285B.178 and this section are to:
(1) Ensure that microenterprises in Oregon are able to realize their full potential to create jobs, enhance entrepreneurial skills, expand entrepreneurial activity and increase the capacity of low income and very low income households to become self-sufficient;
(2) Enhance the development of a statewide infrastructure for microenterprise support; and
(3) Enable the Economic and Community Development Department to engage in contractual relationships with statewide microenterprise support organizations that have the capacity to administer grants to local microenterprise support organizations, subject to ORS 285B.178 and this section, and to leverage additional funds from sources other than moneys appropriated from the General Fund. [2001 c.419 §3; 2007 c.804 §21]
Note: See note under 285B.178.
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