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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

Monday, Feb 18, 2019

Household Water Well – Pearce, AZ

For many rural Arizonans, private wells are the only source of water for drinking and household uses, however drought has left groundwater availability uncertain in some areas. A Cochise County resident faced just that situation in the summer of 2017. His well went dry, and he lacked financial resources to pay the well driller who was called to deepen his well.
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Comite De Bien Estar

Comite De Bien Estar, a nonprofit organization that serves a predominately Latino customer base, develops affordable housing through the USDA self-help program.
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Tuesday, Feb 12, 2019

Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation

The Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation lies across three counties in southern Arizona. The Tohono O’odham Utility Authority monitors the Tribe’s drinking water and sewage systems, which are aging. A long-term solution would be to join the water system with another neighboring system so that the wells wouldn’t be needed but the Tribe also needed a short-term solution.
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Northline Seafoods

RCAC’s Loan Fund provided a $4.84 million loan, which will enable Northline Seafoods to equip a processing barge and purchase a holding barge. It will also provide initial working capital so the business can begin operations in time for the 2019 salmon season, which begins in June.
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Lower Kalskag

Lower Kalskag lies 26 miles west of Aniak, 89 miles northeast of Bethel, and 350 miles west of Anchorage, and is only accessible by small plane or by boat via the river, which turns to ice in the winter. In 2016 the Village of Lower Kalskag’s water system was found to be out of compliance with Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Revised Total Coliform Rule.
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Success Stories

Household Water Well – Pearce, AZ

Comite De Bien Estar

Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation

Northline Seafoods

Lower Kalskag