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.

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Tuesday, Jul 17, 2018

Posted in: California, Elizabeth Zach, Featured News, Water

California tunnel project gets investment from water regulators in the south

California WaterFix, the massive water project that will construct two tunnels to deliver Sacramento River water from northern California to the southern half of the state got an $11 billion investment from water regulators in Los Angeles.
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Wednesday, Jul 11, 2018

Posted in: Affordable Housing, California, Elizabeth Zach, Featured News, Housing, Housing Development

Two major housing measures before California voters in November

California voters will decide later this year on two significant housing measures that would help the state’s growing homeless population. One of those is a $2 billion bond measure, which hit a snag in 2016 after some lawmakers argued that the money was initially earmarked for mental health services; not housing.
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Monday, Jul 09, 2018

Posted in: Community Development, Economic issues, Elizabeth Zach, Featured News

In rural philanthropy, residents can often best determine what their communities need

Charities and other funding organizations that help rural communities can often rely on the people who live there to let them know what’s needed in terms of infrastructure and rural development, according to recent reporting in The Daily Yonder.
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California tunnel project gets investment from water regulators in the south

Two major housing measures before California voters in November

In rural philanthropy, residents can often best determine what their communities need

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