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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, Mar 13, 2016

City of Castle Rock

RCAC provided a $139,000 loan to finance the city’s water system upgrades.
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Facilitating communication step by step

More than five years ago, the City of Lapwai and the Nez Perce Tribe used U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) grant funds to construct a wastewater treatment plant to serve both communities.
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Saturday, Mar 12, 2016

City of Green River, Building Rural Economies (BRE)

The city of Green River, like many western rural communities, lacks economic opportunities. Young people are leaving town, wages are low and housing is deteriorating. Residents and visiting workers face a lack of adequate, affordable housing.
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Friday, Mar 11, 2016

Spokane Tribe

RCAC staff works with the Tribe to become a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development (RD) Section 523 Mutual Self-Help Housing Program grantee.
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Town of Rockford

RCAC worked with the town to develop a Water Shortage Response Plan.
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Success Stories

City of Castle Rock

Facilitating communication step by step

City of Green River, Building Rural Economies (BRE)

Spokane Tribe

Town of Rockford