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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

Thursday, Nov 03, 2016

Arvin point-of-use treatment filters

Where: Arvin, California Problem: The arsenic levels in the municipal water supply in Arvin exceed the EPA maximum contaminant level . . .
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Tuesday, Oct 25, 2016

Elk City Water and Sewer Association takes steps to sustainable solutions

Elk City is similar to many small, isolated, rural towns in the West where residents mostly rely on themselves. With so few residents, it’s fallen upon Elk City to organize to a volunteer fire department, emergency medical services and, in recent years, an all-volunteer water management team. Now, the town’s most pressing need is to improve its wastewater treatment.
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Tuesday, Oct 04, 2016

Tierra del Sol Housing Corporation

RCAC provided a $300,100 loan to Tierra Del Sol to purchase a 12.02 acre site to develop 48 USDA RD self-help housing lots in Vado, New Mexico.
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Monday, Sep 26, 2016

Kunia Village project underway, first homes blessed

On August 9, RCAC staff joined staff from the Hawaii Agriculture Research Center (HARC), United States Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, Hawaii state Sen. Suzanne Chun-Oakland, Hawaii state Senator Gil Riviere and Kahu Cordell Kekoa in blessing the first of 82 renovated or new affordable homes for low-income farmworkers in Kunia Village on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.
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Saturday, Sep 10, 2016

Moenkopi Developers Corporation

The Native Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act (NAHASDA) of 1996 significantly changed HUD funding for tribes into a block grant program that allows them to structure their own approaches to developing housing for their members. Then as now, HUD funds are inadequate, but now HUD is also pushing Tribes to leverage their NAHASDA funds.
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Success Stories

Arvin point-of-use treatment filters

Elk City Water and Sewer Association takes steps to sustainable solutions

Tierra del Sol Housing Corporation

Kunia Village project underway, first homes blessed

Moenkopi Developers Corporation