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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.

Success Stories

Tuesday, Mar 02, 2021

Old River – Fallon, Nevada

RCAC partnered with the Nevada Department of Environmental Protection (NDEP) to create systems to bring the system back into compliance.
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Evergreen Union School District

RCAC helped the district secure funding under California’s Drinking Water for Schools (DWFS) grant to install new and retrofit existing fountains with water bottle filling stations.
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Tule River Reservation, Tulare County

The Tule River Reservation is located in Tulare County, near Porterville, California. The Tribe’s Public Works Department director requested RCAC’s assistance to develop and map onsite wastewater disposal systems on the Tule River.
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Hopi Reservation, Northern Arizona

Second Mesa Day School is a K-6 elementary school on the Hopi Reservation in northern Arizona. The school has its own water system that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers as a community water system.
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Pueblo de Cochiti, New Mexico

RCAC launched the Native American Business Development: A Journey (NABDAJ) workshop series for Native American entrepreneurs.
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Success Stories

Old River – Fallon, Nevada

Evergreen Union School District

Tule River Reservation, Tulare County

Hopi Reservation, Northern Arizona

Pueblo de Cochiti, New Mexico