Publications Archive

RCAC’s programs and services deliver solutions to complex community needs. Our local presence allows us to develop partnerships with communities to identify needs, set goals, and select the best options to meet those goals. RCAC and our partners provide the tools to create change and growth, but the communities chart their own course. Collaboration, plus community effort will equal community change. How can we help you?

RCAC’s Loan Fund is a financial resource for rural communities. The Loan Fund fills financing gaps and serves in unconventional markets. We offer loans for affordable housing development, environmental infrastructure, community facilities and small businesses in rural locations.

Decent housing, safe drinking water, education, financing, jobs, community facilities, leadership, families are the many facets to RCAC's work.

RCAC expands the knowledge base of the rural public through education and training. Our training expertise is in technical, financial, and administrative issues that affect rural communities. We take great pride in our professional trainer team's capacity and effectiveness. Our trainers maximize audience participation to keep trainings relevant and memorable.

RCAC's news and publications are a compilation of timely news, announcements and accomplishments produced for the rural development world.

Sub-standard housing and poverty are commonplace in low-income rural communities. Many of these communities also face daunting challenges to access safe, clean drinking water and to develop other vital infrastructure. These issues are often overlooked in policy because rural communities lack the resources, training or social networks that are found in urban areas. Learn how you can advocate for the under-served population in the West.

Founded in 1978, RCAC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that partners with underserved rural and Indigenous communities to achieve their vision and well being through technical assistance, training, financial resources and advocacy. For more than 45 years, our dedicated staff and active board, coupled with our key values: leadership, collaboration, commitment, quality and integrity, have helped effect positive change in rural communities across the West. Learn more about who we are and how we operate.

News & Publications

Monday, Dec 14, 2015

Posted in: Keli James, Network News

Network News December 2015

John Mealey–a lifetime of achievements in affordable housing–If there is one thing John Mealey would tell younger people who want to work in the helping and housing fields, it is to keep their real boss–the people they serve–in mind.
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Tuesday, Oct 27, 2015

Posted in: Keli James, Network News

Network News October 2015

Who are these women? – The story of Donna Schroeder’s life until now-she is 76-can be told with chicken scratches carved into a small wooden block, an engraving that hangs amid dozens of others just like it in Elmo’s Highwood Bar in Highwood, Montana.
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Wednesday, Sep 30, 2015

Posted in: Keli James, Network News

Network News September 2015

Several areas across the rural West saw noticeable gains in employment in the year preceding June 2015, but others, such as Alaska, suffered losses in the same period, keeping that state’s jobless rate above the national average.
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Sunday, Sep 27, 2015

Posted in: Self-Help Builder News

Self-Help Builder Sept. 2015 Volume 8, Issue #4

The FY 16 budget picture is definitely not clear. There are significant issues relative to the overall funding for domestic discretionary programs.
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Sunday, Aug 30, 2015

Posted in: Keli James, Network News

Network News August 2015

Driving on a weekday morning through this remote enclave of mobile homes, bodegas, squat adobe health clinics and Pentecostal chapels, one wonders: “Where are all the people?”
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News & Publications

Network News December 2015

Network News October 2015

Network News September 2015

Self-Help Builder Sept. 2015 Volume 8, Issue #4

Network News August 2015