Success Stories Archive - Page 47 of 77

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

Friday, Mar 03, 2017

Town of Mora, Building Rural Economies (BRE)

Mora County residents are very concerned about their land and its pristine location at the head of five watersheds. Climate change, extreme drought, imminent catastrophic forest fires, and the incursion of oil and gas corporations all threaten the health of the watersheds and the local people. Mora County’s population of 5,000 is very low-income, primarily Hispanic and Native American descent, and geographically isolated. In 2013, RCAC established its Building Rural Economies (BRE) program …
Read More
Monday, Feb 27, 2017

Dreams become reality in zero energy affordable homes

In the late 1970s, Barbara Miller was a newspaper reporter writing about Missoula and Butte, Montana, and as such, she paid attention to all sorts of trends—from the local and national economy, to housing, to scientific breakthroughs. As it turned out, her reporting and stories eventually intersected when she came across some technological research that would have a significant real-world impact in Butte.
Read More
Tuesday, Jan 31, 2017

Community Rebuilds continues to break the mold for self-help housing

Moab, Utah –Emily Niehaus happily acknowledges she took a circuitous route to become a housing advocate. She tallies her master’s degree in applied sociology and following that, stints as a loan officer, bookkeeper and case worker. “But those three jobs really pointed me in the direction of affordable housing,” says the founder and director of Community Rebuilds.
Read More
Regional approach to studying woody biomass reflects spirit of Mora County

Mora County, New Mexico is known for its independence and indomitable spirit. With a history steeped in ruffians and rogues this southwestern enclave of feisty individualists has an agrarian background dating back hundreds, even thousands, of years to the conquistadores and before that, to Native Americans.
Read More
Thursday, Jan 26, 2017

Keno, Oregon

The water system was undercharging customers and was unable to pay for its operational and maintenance expenses, forcing it to rely on its reserves. RCAC staff analyzed Keno’s water rates and assisted board members in passing a rate increase.
Read More

Success Stories

Town of Mora, Building Rural Economies (BRE)

Dreams become reality in zero energy affordable homes

Community Rebuilds continues to break the mold for self-help housing

Regional approach to studying woody biomass reflects spirit of Mora County

Keno, Oregon