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- EIN 94-2512284
- (916) 447-2854
- 3120 Freeboard Dr Ste 201 West Sacramento CA 95691 USA
- http://www.rcac.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Community & Neighborhood Development, Economic Development, Environment, Homeless & Housing, Housing & Shelter, Microfinance, Rural Economic Development
Mission: RCAC builds partnerships to provide training, technical assistance, access to resources, advocacy and capacity building. Our major program areas are environmental infrastructure, afforable housing development and community development finance. The US Treasury certified RCAC as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI). Currently, RCAC sponsors targeted initiatives for agricultural workers, native Americans and comprehensive community development.
Geographic areas served: All Western US
Programs: Environmental services: rcac assisted 600 rural communities to build, improve, manage, operate or finance drinking water, wastewater or solid waste systems. Rcac trained 7,746 individuals on environmental infrastructure through 282 workshops and assisted 39 communities to start work plans for future infrastructure improvements. Rcac trained 454 people on green infrastructure. Rcac provided 10,000 hours of technical assistance and training to more than 125 native groups in california and arizona. Rcac collaborated with the california endowment to launch agua4all, a pilot project to install 120 water bottle filling stations in schools and public places in eastern coachella valley and southern kern county. Agua4all expands access to safe drinking water and encourages people to choose water as their beverage of choice.
housing and community services: rcac assisted nonprofit and local government agencies to develop 559 single-family affordable housing units in rural areas. Rcac assisted 57 self-help housing agencies across 11 states with capacity to develop 594 mutual self-help housing and to rehabilitate 109 homes. Rcac provided pass-through funding, oversight and technical assistance to 19 housing counseling agencies across nine states and administered the national foreclosure mitigation counseling program to 19 agencies, in addition to managing 41 agencies in the keep your home california program. These programs assisted more than 13,500 households to avoid foreclosure. Additionally 176 households received pre-purchase housing counseling. In fye 2014, two rural communities completed rcacs leadership training program.
loan fund: during fiscal year 2014, with more than $74 million in lending capital, rcacs loan fund closed 36 loans totaling $12. 7 million and leveraged more than $29 million for affordable housing, environmental infrastructure and community facilities. These loans supported 1,989 individual water and wastewater connections for rural citizens, 300 housing units and 3,620,027 feet of community facility space. Additionally, rcac loans in fye 2014 created or retained 273 jobs.