Success Stories Archive

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 provides training, technical and financial resources and advocacy so rural communities can achieve their goals and visions. For more than 40 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

Success stories are a compilation of staff written success stories and case studies that highlight our impact in rural communities.

Tuesday, Aug 30, 2022

Fort Bragg, California

RCAC is undertaking a rate study and preparing several rate adjustment options to meet the city’s strategic objectives.
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Tuesday, Aug 23, 2022

San Simon Drinking Water Improvement District

San Simon Drinking Water Improvement District (DWID) is a small, unincorporated community in Cochise County located near the eastern border of Arizona and New Mexico. San Simon is a designated Colonia with approximately 200 people and 110 active service connections.
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Deer Island Village

Deer Island Village is a mobile home park in Columbia County, northwest of Portland Oregon. It’s a very small community, with a 100-person population. The system has 62 connections.
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Pine Strawberry Water Improvement District

The Pine Strawberry Water Improvement District serves Pine and Strawberry, rural communities in Arizona. The aging system serves more than 3,000 connections, the majority residential.
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Monday, Aug 08, 2022

Yellow Pine, Idaho

Yellow Pine is an unincorporated census-designated place (CDP) in Valley County, Idaho. In 2019, the population of Yellow Pine was 246. This small mining community’s water storage and distribution systems were seriously damaged by earthquakes in 2020.
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Success Stories

Fort Bragg, California

San Simon Drinking Water Improvement District

Deer Island Village

Pine Strawberry Water Improvement District

Yellow Pine, Idaho