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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, Apr 03, 2016

West Village Packaging, LLC

RCAC provided a $64,350 loan to West Village Packaging LLC for equipment and inventory purchases and a $300,000 line-of-credit to provide short-term cash flow to expand and add new jobs.
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Northway Village

RCAC’s Loan Fund provided a $130,000 bridge loan to a remote Alaskan Native community to cover unanticipated costs needed to complete a multi-purpose building to serve its members.
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Tuesday, Mar 29, 2016

Family spotlight – Alex & Angela Anderson

Starting out as a young couple, Alex and Angela Anderson had much in common. They both came from small towns in Utah where their families knew each other. They were both focused and careful about saving money, and when their children were born, they were both determined to provide for them as best they could. Still, despite saving to buy a house while living three years in a small apartment, they never hit their target.
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Monday, Mar 28, 2016

Coachella Valley Mobile Home Park

Mobile homes are a major housing source for low-income farmworker households in the Coachella Valley; many are dilapidated and overcrowded and are located in parks with insufficient and unsafe infrastructure.
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Camphora Apartments

For a half century, Monterey area farmworkers have lived in the Camphora Labor Camp, which consisted of 44 two-bedroom 450 square foot concrete block homes.
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Success Stories

West Village Packaging, LLC

Northway Village

Family spotlight – Alex & Angela Anderson

Coachella Valley Mobile Home Park

Camphora Apartments