1. Community Advantage Loan Program Section 7(a) of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 636(a) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (37) Community Advantage Loan Program (A) Purposes The purposes of the Community Advantage Loan Program are— (i) to create a mission-oriented loan guarantee program that builds on the demonstrated success of the Community Advantage Pilot Program of the Administration, as established in 2011, to reach more underserved small business concerns; (ii) to increase lending to small business concerns in underserved and rural markets, including veterans and members of the military community, small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, women, and startups; (iii) to ensure that the program under this subsection (in this paragraph referred to as the 7(a) loan program ) is more inclusive and more broadly meets congressional intent to reach borrowers who are unable to get credit elsewhere on reasonable terms and conditions; (iv) to help underserved small business concerns become bankable by utilizing the small-dollar financing and business support experience of mission-oriented lenders; (v) to allow certain mission-oriented lenders, primarily nonprofit financial intermediaries focused on economic development in underserved markets, to access guarantees for loans under this subsection (in this paragraph referred to as 7(a) loans ) of not more than $250,000 and provide management and technical assistance to small business concerns as needed; (vi) to provide certainty for the lending partners that make loans under this subsection and to attract new lenders