36 U.S.C. § 30102

1. (1)to assist individuals throughout the United States in solving their social and economic problems and in their health and educational and character development;
2. (2)to promote the use, by other lay and professional agencies and workers, of the techniques of that assistance developed by the corporation; and
3. (3)to receive, invest, and disburse funds and hold property for the purposes of the corporation.