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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, Sep 05, 2016

New Mexico student debt pilot program

College students are going into debt to finance their educations. This negatively affects their, credit, ability to afford rising rents and obtain home loan but RCAC’s pilot debt counseling program helps students understand the consequences of debt.
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Sunday, Sep 04, 2016

Rural Alaska Community Action Program – 502 packaging

RCAC staff provide training and support to nonprofit housing organizations that want to package USDA 502 loans. RCAC staff also review the completed packages to make sure they are complete before sending them to USDA for approval.
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Saturday, Sep 03, 2016

River Village Mobile Home Park

RCAC worked with the mobile home park owner to develop a budget and plan for necessary requirements to apply for public funding to, ultimately, achieve compliance with state drinking water regulations and provide safe water for its residents.
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Tuesday, Aug 30, 2016

Department of Hawaiian Homelands

RCAC assisted DHHL to prepare required reports and DHHL submitted four successful grant applications for three projects totaling $15,826,191.
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Wednesday, Aug 24, 2016

Matheny Tract has access to water after struggling for decades

For decades, Matheny Tract residents bathed in murky tap water that reeked of bleach. They worried about washing dishes in the water and wouldn’t even consider letting their children drink it. The water, warned public health officials, had arsenic levels too high for consumption.
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Success Stories

New Mexico student debt pilot program

Rural Alaska Community Action Program – 502 packaging

River Village Mobile Home Park

Department of Hawaiian Homelands

Matheny Tract has access to water after struggling for decades