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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 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.

Success Stories

Monday, Jun 26, 2017

RiversEdge Lodge and RV Park

A small business owner lacked financial resources to improve the water conditions that served the small business RV Park and lodge. Rural Community Assistance Corporation’s (RCAC) Loan Fund provided an environmental infrastructure loan to fund the improvements.
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Well Assessments – Nye County

Individual well owners are responsible for their private well system’s maintenance and water quality monitoring. Many, however, do not know how to properly care for their well to ensure the safety of their drinking water source, nor are they aware of the danger of drinking contaminated water. RCAC offers free well assessments, water quality testing and education for well owners.
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Peppers Place

Owners of a small business sought to expand their business and relocate to a permanent site. They planned to renovate a manufactured office building, place it on a foundation and add a commercial kitchen. RCAC’s Loan Fund provided a $64,000 small business loan, with a guarantee from the Small Business Administration’s Community Advantage Program.
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Wednesday, Jun 14, 2017

Women find opportunity, hope in self-help housing program

Nibley, Utah – Sometime during the 10 or so months it took Veronica Cabrera to build her family home here in northern Utah, she began to feel a persistent, dull ache all over her left side. She chalked it up to perhaps sleeping poorly, or else the strenuous labor, particularly during the winter months, when she was building her self-help home.
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Tuesday, Jun 13, 2017

Major Market

Major Market is a registered New Mexico Corporation, owned by a husband and wife who are Zuni Tribe members. The Corporation seeks to open a deli/ convenience store near Zuni Pueblo, located in rural New Mexico about 150 miles west of Albuquerque. Zuni Pueblo has about 6,300 residents, most of whom are Tribal members.
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Success Stories

RiversEdge Lodge and RV Park

Well Assessments – Nye County

Peppers Place

Women find opportunity, hope in self-help housing program

Major Market