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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

Wednesday, Mar 16, 2016

Community Housing Improvement Program

Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP) became a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Mutual Self-Help Housing Program grantee in 1980, and since has helped more than 1,700 families to build their own homes.
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Tuesday, Mar 15, 2016

Providing training to help revitalize a rural economy

The town of Lewistown, like many western rural communities, lacks economic opportunities. Young people are leaving town, jobs are few and wages are low, and decent affordable housing is in short supply.
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Two small water/wastewater systems merge to become sustainable

RCAC’s Loan Fund provided a $558,000 line of credit so the sponsoring organization, Lewiston Community Services District, could access state funding to connect with the Lewiston Park Mutual Water Company and improve the sewer systems.
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City of White Bird

Like many small rural communities, the City of White Bird (CWB) has an aging wastewater system and found itself needing to retain a qualified engineering firm in order to provide the technical expertise to undertake infrastructure improvements.
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Westport County Water District

Translating financial statement information into a language that non-experts will find meaningful is challenging. By following a step-by-step process, RCAC staff helped Westport County Water District board and staff learn to use their financial statements
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Success Stories

Community Housing Improvement Program

Providing training to help revitalize a rural economy

Two small water/wastewater systems merge to become sustainable

City of White Bird

Westport County Water District