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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 18, 2015

Hidden Valley Addition Water Association (HVAWA)

Hidden Valley Addition is a 48-lot subdivision near Rathdrum, one of the oldest towns in northeastern Idaho. HVAWA supplies drinking water and irrigation service to the subdivision’s residents, most of whom are retired and on fixed incomes.
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Community Action Partnership of Northwest Montana (CAPNM)

CAPNM, a Community Action Agency that offers services to low-income Northwest Montana residents is financially healthy, but its board members were concerned that the agency lacked the capacity and staff experience for a large and complex upcoming project called ReCAP 7 – seven properties comprising 258 units of affordable housing that needed new financing to maintain affordability, and to conduct rehabilitation and energy efficiency improvements.
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Tuesday, Mar 17, 2015

Nez Perce Tribal Housing Authority (NPTHA)

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.
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Native American Development Corporation (NADC)

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.
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Monday, Mar 16, 2015

Town of Rosalia Wastewater Rate Study

RCAC is assisting the town of Rosalia to set appropriate wastewater rates that cover current problems, future improvements and utility sustainability.
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Success Stories

Hidden Valley Addition Water Association (HVAWA)

Community Action Partnership of Northwest Montana (CAPNM)

Nez Perce Tribal Housing Authority (NPTHA)

Native American Development Corporation (NADC)

Town of Rosalia Wastewater Rate Study