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Founded in 1978, RCAC provides training, technical and financial resources and advocacy so rural communities can achieve their goals. Since 1978, 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. RCAC’s work includes environmental infrastructure (water, wastewater and solid waste facilities); affordable housing development; economic and leadership development; and community development finance. These services are available to communities with populations of fewer than 50,000, other nonprofit groups, Tribal organizations, farmworkers, colonias and other specific populations. Headquartered in West Sacramento, California, RCAC’s employees serve rural communities in 13 western states and the Pacific islands. With an annual operating budget of more than $15 million and more than 100 employees working from 52 field offices, RCAC is an important resource to low-income rural communities throughout the West

Founded in 2008, and part of the parent organization Self-Help, we are a community development credit union. We serve anyone seeking affordable, responsible financial services, but are particularly committed to serving low-wealth and underserved communities and families. Our mission is to create and protect ownership and economic opportunity for all, especially people of color, women, rural residents, and low-wealth families and communities. Self-Help strengthens underserved communities by providing financing to homebuyers, nonprofits, childcare centers, community health facilities, public charter schools, and residential and commercial real estate projects. In total, Self-Help, Self-Help Federal Credit Union, and the entire Self-Help family have provided $7 billion in financing to more than 120,000 families, individuals, and businesses, and currently provide basic financial services to more than 117,000 individuals.

Co-op Power is a multi-racial, multi-class movement for a just and sustainable future. We're a decentralized network of local councils in southern New England and eastern New York, incorporated as a consumer-owned energy cooperative. We use our buying power to secure quality goods and services at affordable prices. We use our time and energy to install renewable energy systems and weatherize buildings. We use our political power to support the development of community-friendly energy laws and regulations, especially serving communities of color and limited resource communities. We use our volunteer power, capital and technical resources to build community-owned green jobs and green energy to create new products and services for our members and to build new green jobs in limited resource communities.