The Community Micro-Enterprise Initiative (CMEI), has as its objectives the development of lawyers who can provide high-quality affordable legal services and education to small businesses in underserved communities and the creation of models that permit such community-based lawyers to survive and thrive. CMEI works closely with the Small Business Development Center of LaGuardia Community College, one of the units of the City University of New York, which receives funding by the U.S. Small Business Administration.