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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

Tuesday, Mar 17, 2015

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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Lake Wenatchee Water District

Regional collaboration among rural utilities is an innovative way to help small water and/or wastewater systems maintain compliance, improve aging infrastructure and become financially sustainable.
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Thursday, Mar 12, 2015

Spokane Tribe of Indians

After receiving a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Challenge grant to create a Sustainable Community Master Plan, the Spokane Tribe of Indians (STOI) needed help to implement the plan.
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White Bluff Water Association, Inc. (WBWA)

WBWA had expected to receive funding from a local bank to complete the final repairs to its old and frequently failing water system, but disaster loomed when the loan commitment was rescinded. RCAC stepped in to provide a $212,000 loan to WBWA to cover the final repair costs.
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Success Stories

Native American Development Corporation (NADC)

Town of Rosalia Wastewater Rate Study

Lake Wenatchee Water District

Spokane Tribe of Indians

White Bluff Water Association, Inc. (WBWA)