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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

Tuesday, Mar 15, 2016

Two small water/wastewater systems merge to become sustainable

RCAC’s Loan Fund provided a $558,000 line of credit so the sponsoring organization, Lewiston Community Services District, could access state funding to connect with the Lewiston Park Mutual Water Company and improve the sewer systems.
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City of White Bird

Like many small rural communities, the City of White Bird (CWB) has an aging wastewater system and found itself needing to retain a qualified engineering firm in order to provide the technical expertise to undertake infrastructure improvements.
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Westport County Water District

Translating financial statement information into a language that non-experts will find meaningful is challenging. By following a step-by-step process, RCAC staff helped Westport County Water District board and staff learn to use their financial statements
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Northern Tulare County Water Alliance

Cutler, East Orosi, Monson, Orosi, Seville, Sultana and Yettem in Tulare County are similar to many other communities throughout rural California. All have aging infrastructure, and drought and water contamination are current or pending concerns.
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Integrated Regional Water Management programs

In 2006, California voters passed Proposition 84, or “The Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act.”
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Success Stories

Two small water/wastewater systems merge to become sustainable

City of White Bird

Westport County Water District

Northern Tulare County Water Alliance

Integrated Regional Water Management programs