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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 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

Tuesday, Aug 23, 2022

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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Thursday, Jul 28, 2022

New Stuyahok, Alaska

RCAC helped the small village prepare financial records and generate statements to meet USDA Rural Development grant requirements.
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Monday, Jul 25, 2022

Izakaya Gama: How RCAC helped a pop-up blossom into one of Northern California’s top destination eateries

Wildflower Boutique Motel owner Jeff Hansen was so pleased with Rural Community Assistance Corporation’s (RCAC) financial assistance that he recommended it to Elyse and David Hopps, owners of an up-and-coming startup restaurant in Point Arena named Izakaya Gama.
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Wildflower Boutique Motel: RCAC Loan Fund financing supports one-of-a-kind roadside inn

About three hours north of San Francisco along California’s salt-misted, serpentine Highway One lies Point Arena, a Mendocino County town of 500 that is among the smallest incorporated communities in the state.
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Success Stories

Pine Strawberry Water Improvement District

Yellow Pine, Idaho

New Stuyahok, Alaska

Izakaya Gama: How RCAC helped a pop-up blossom into one of Northern California’s top destination eateries

Wildflower Boutique Motel: RCAC Loan Fund financing supports one-of-a-kind roadside inn