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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

Wednesday, Apr 12, 2017

Rose Garden

Rose Garden is a mobile home park near Blackfoot, Idaho. In 2016, the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) contacted RCAC with concerns that Rose Garden’s water system was not in compliance with regulations.
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Tuesday, Apr 11, 2017

Housing Resources of Western Colorado

Rural Community Assistance Corporation’s (RCAC) Loan Fund provided Housing Resources of Western Colorado (HRWC) a $1.2 million loan to develop 36 single-family lots that will be constructed through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Mutual Self-Help Housing Program
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Friday, Apr 07, 2017

Buttonwillow County Water District

Buttonwillow County Water District, which has been in operation since 1956, provides water to a small, low-income, predominately farmworker community on the west side of Kern County. With its aging infrastructure, the district experienced several major water leaks each year, resulting in the loss of tens of thousands of gallons of water.
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Thursday, Apr 06, 2017

Well assessments

More than a half-million Californians rely on private wells for their drinking water. Individual well owners are responsible for their private well system’s maintenance and water quality monitoring. Many, however, do not know how to properly care for their well …
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Saturday, Apr 01, 2017

Central Coast IRWM

The Salinas Valley on California’s Central Coast is one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world. Intensive fertilizer use during several decades, however, has led to nitrate pollution in the region’s groundwater basins. The area’s economically disadvantaged rural communities have neither the resources nor technical expertise to address water pollution.
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Success Stories

Rose Garden

Housing Resources of Western Colorado

Buttonwillow County Water District

Well assessments

Central Coast IRWM