---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 4993"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "4993"
heading: "Technical and financial assistance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/4993"
units:
  - "Chapter 66 — Domestic Volunteer Services"
  - "Subchapter I — National Volunteer Antipoverty Programs"
  - "Part C — Special Volunteer Programs"
---

# §4993. Technical and financial assistance


The [Director](/usc/42/5061.md?p=1) may provide technical and financial assistance to Federal [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) and local governments and [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), private [nonprofit](/usc/42/5061.md?p=3) organizations, employers, and other private organizations that utilize or desire to utilize volunteers in carrying out the purpose of this part.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–113, title I, § 123, as added Pub. L. 94–293, § 3(b)(1), May 27, 1976, 90 Stat. 525; amended Pub. L. 98–288, § 13, May 21, 1984, 98 Stat. 192; Pub. L. 101–204, title VI, § 602, Dec. 7, 1989, 103 Stat. 1820; Pub. L. 103–82, title III, § 332, Sept. 21, 1993, 107 Stat. 903.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1993—Pub. L. 103–82 amended section generally, substituting single sentence authorizing technical and financial assistance for former subsecs. (a) and (b) which contained similar general authority and provisions detailing use of the general authority.

1989—Pub. L. 101–204 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

1984—Pub. L. 98–288 substituted “(2) technical assistance and training programs, including the creation or expansion of private capabilities where possible and the development of voluntary organizations, with particular emphasis on low-income, minority, and community-based groups, or (3)” for “or (2)”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1993 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 103–82 effective Oct. 1, 1993, see section 392 of Pub. L. 103–82, set out as a note under section 4951 of this title.