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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

Saturday, Mar 26, 2016

Energy audit

Chowchilla is an incorporated town in rural Madera County, California, with about 18,720 residents. The town’s wastewater treatment facility is located approximately 1 mile south of its center.
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Friday, Mar 25, 2016

Working with a small water system to provide safe drinking water

Sierra Kings Homeowners Association (SKHA), a nonprofit corporation, provides water service to a 60-lot subdivision and six additional properties in Tulare County, California.
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Thursday, Mar 24, 2016

San Jerardo

San Jerardo is a 67-unit, low-income housing facility for farmworkers located seven miles southeast of Salinas, California. The water system serves about 300 residents and includes 67 water and wastewater connections. The average annual income per family is $20,000.
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Vista Dunes Water Association

Vista Dunes is a small unincorporated community on Washington’s southwest coast with approximately 30 homes. Many residents live in the community only part time, which contributes to the town’s limited capacity to manage the water system.
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Wednesday, Mar 23, 2016

Florissant Water and Sanitation District

RCAC provided a $100,905 loan to the district.
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Success Stories

Energy audit

Working with a small water system to provide safe drinking water

San Jerardo

Vista Dunes Water Association

Florissant Water and Sanitation District