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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

Thursday, Sep 14, 2017

Self-help housing provides home ownership opportunities for low-income Alaska residents

Wasilla, Alaska – Last year, Kolten Conan was scrolling through his Facebook page, and he happened upon photos of a house under construction. He already knew a thing or two about building homes: he’s now 21 and when he was just a little boy, he had scampered among laborers at construction sites around his hometown of Wasilla, fetching boards and helping out with seasonal work.
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Sunday, Sep 10, 2017

Spokane Indian Reservation, Washington

RCAC worked with the Spokane Indian Housing Authority (SIHA) through its Building Rural Economies (BRE) initiative. Using the BRE principles, SIHA created the Three Bands Construction Company, a full-service general contracting and construction division. Since 2016, the company has created six new full-time jobs.
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Saturday, Aug 26, 2017

Duggan Falls, Washington

Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC) provided training and conducted a rate study to help this small system maintain compliance and ensure revenue sufficiency.
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Tuesday, Aug 22, 2017

RCIF partners with RCAC to invest in a sustainable future for rural communities

Oakland, Calif. – In 2008, collapsing home values addled Americans across the nation, bankers were drawing scrutiny and the stock market was collapsing. It was difficult to understand the cause and to know where to keep one’s investments safe.
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Saturday, Aug 12, 2017

Garden Valley

Garden Valley Ranchettes Homeowners, Inc. (HOA) is located in Garden Valley, an unincorporated area of Boise County, Idaho about 53 miles north/ northeast of Boise. The rural community has a population of nearly 400. The HOA owns the water system which serves 27 active water connections with two wells; however, only one is active. During January 2017, the area experienced severe and historic snow levels, which put pressure on the area’s power grid and caused the active well to fail.
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Success Stories

Self-help housing provides home ownership opportunities for low-income Alaska residents

Spokane Indian Reservation, Washington

Duggan Falls, Washington

RCIF partners with RCAC to invest in a sustainable future for rural communities

Garden Valley