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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Wednesday, Oct 28, 2020

Posted in: Network News

Network News October 2020

Rural Community Assistance Corporation’s long running “workshop-in-a-box” (WIAB) has recently been a source of unexpected opportunities in rural Utah. Funded by U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development (USDA), RCAC created the workshops in 2012 in partnership with USDA and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Tuesday, Oct 27, 2020

Posted in: Press Release

Banner Bank grants RCAC $500,000 for COVID-19 relief to small businesses

West Sacramento, Calif. — Rural Community Assistance Corporation received a $500,000 grant from the Banner Bank Small Business Opportunity Fund.
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Wednesday, Oct 21, 2020

Posted in: Rural America

Rural areas experience rise in COVID-19 new cases

As the U.S. transitions into winter, COVID-19 cases are again on the rise, but the new hot spots are in rural states. Bloomberg News reports that as of October 19, the highest case rates per capita for the previous seven days had been in North and South Dakota, Montana, Wisconsin and Utah.
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Network News October 2020

Banner Bank grants RCAC $500,000 for COVID-19 relief to small businesses

Rural areas experience rise in COVID-19 new cases

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