WealthWorks West

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 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.

WealthWorks West

WeathWorks is an approach to local and regional economic development that brings together and connects community assets to meet market demands in ways that build capacities and livelihoods that are sustainable over time. WealthWorks aims to advance a region’s economic prosperity and self-reliance, strengthening existing and emerging sectors to increase individual and community wealth.

It works for people, businesses and organizations and in communities of all sizes, shapes and success levels.

The mechanisms for reaching these ends are wealth creating value chains that build deep collaboration between links and relationships along the chain. Value chain links include public sector entities, nonprofit organizations, entrepreneurs, colleges, universities, consumer groups and individuals.

WealthWorks regional hubs have developed value chains such as: agriculture, tourism, manufacturing, labor, downtown revitalization and the energy sector, to create economic opportunity nationally..

Regional hubs provide training and technical assistance for practitioners and communities to connect and learn with organizations implementing WealthWorks on the ground. Regional hubs support work at the local, state and regional level.

Organizations across the United States are forming a national regional hubs network committed to sharing their on-the-ground experience with the WealthWorks approach and principles.

The WealthWorks national regional hubs network functions as a learning community, committed to learning from each other. Regional hubs can help in the following ways:

Organize and deliver regional training
Enhance peer-to-peer learning and sharing within a region and between states
Promote networking across state boundaries
Allow for sharing of stories, challenges, opportunities and best practices
Provide support for local coordinators
Leverage resources

For more information about WealthWorks, visit www.wealthworks.org.

For more information about how you can learn about, be trained in, or implement WealthWorks, please contact RCAC’s main office at (916) 447-2854 and request Carol Cohen.