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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

Sunday, Jun 11, 2017

Hawaiian Community Assets, Inc.

RCAC provided a $200,000 loan to help HCA take advantage of the opportunity to purchase the building it was renting in Hilo, Hawaii. HCA plans to continue to maintain an office there and rent the remainder of the building to other businesses and provide a business incubator site where small and emerging businesses can rent office space on a short-term basis and at below market rates.
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Wednesday, Jun 07, 2017

Garberville Sanitary District

Garberville Sanitary District (GSD) serves residents in a small, unincorporated rural community in northern California. The district needed to replace its water storage tank but lacked the financial resources to proceed
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Tuesday, Jun 06, 2017

Loyalton, California

The city faced a lawsuit due to financial hardship. RCAC staff helped Loyalton develop sound financial policies and procedures to achieve a clean audit.
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Saturday, Jun 03, 2017

Livingston Community Health

Livingston Community Health is a nonprofit health center that provides comprehensive primary and preventive care services to patients, regardless of their ability to pay. The organization is currently operating out of a facility that limits its ability to provide services …
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Thursday, Jun 01, 2017

Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP)

RCAC’s Loan Fund provided a $1.475 million loan to Community Housing Improvement Program, a USDA Section 523 self-help grantee, for acquisition of 33 finished lots to build affordable housing for families in Orland, California.
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Success Stories

Hawaiian Community Assets, Inc.

Garberville Sanitary District

Loyalton, California

Livingston Community Health

Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP)