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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

Sunday, Mar 29, 2015

City of Kimberly

RCAC reviewed Kimberly’s water use and presented the city with two options for raising rates and balancing its budget.
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Hawaiian Shores Community Association (HSCA)

RCAC provided a pre-development loan for the preliminary engineering report, and helped HSCA apply for additional funding to replace and upgrade the system.
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Friday, Mar 27, 2015

Creating affordable homeownership opportunities in Oregon

With RCAC’s Mutual Self-Help Housing program expertise, three Oregon housing agencies Community Home Builders (formerly Yamhill CDC), Community Action Team, and NeighborWorks Umpqua have completed more than 260 new homes and renovated 50 self-help homes in rural Oregon for low- and very low-income families.
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Maria Montessori Academy

The Maria Montessori Academy (MMA) in Utah needed more space for an increasing student body but it lacked the funding to acquire and develop land next to its existing campus. The school had received approval from the Utah State Board of Education to amend its charter to allow it to serve up to 750 students – up from 490 students– and to add a junior high school to its kindergarten through sixth grade curriculum. This was also partly in response to an ongoing wait list of around 100 children.
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Utah Self-Help Group

With RCAC’s self-help housing program expertise nine self-help housing agencies across northern and southern Utah have helped nearly 1,000 families become homeowners, despite increasing lot and construction costs.
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Success Stories

City of Kimberly

Hawaiian Shores Community Association (HSCA)

Creating affordable homeownership opportunities in Oregon

Maria Montessori Academy

Utah Self-Help Group