About Us
Our Vision
Our Mission
Our Theory of Change
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<span data-metadata=""><span data-buffer=""> WHERE WE Are
Rural Community Alliance operates across all regions of the state, focusing on initiatives to revitalize communities, support public schools, foster regional collaboration, and advance RCA’s statewide policy work.
– Ashley
– Boone
– Calhoun
– Clark
– Columbia
– Crittenden
– Lafayette
– Lee
– Lonoke
– Marion
– Miller
– Monroe
– Newton
– Ouachita
– Perry
– Phillips
– Pike
– Saline
– Searcy
– St. Francis
– Van Buren
Annual Reports
We work through our 21 chapters in rural communities throughout Arkansas to share resources, information, and strategies, and we collectively advocate for policies that benefit low-income families, children, and communities. Our members decide on the issues and concerns they address at the local level as well as state-wide and national issues that we support. Each year, we produce an annual report that shows our progress on chosen issues.
Rural Community Alliance
History & Accomplishments
2008 Highlights
Organization hires its first Executive Director and staff. Expands mission to include community revitalization. Becomes part of Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation’s Moving the Needle Campaign to
2007 Highlights
Organization membership reaches 650 mark. Participant in Charles Stewart Mott Foundation grassroots organizing initiative through Southern Echo. Hosted first policy council meeting with chapter leaders
2006 Highlights
IRS designates the organization as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. Organization lands its first grant, compliments of Southern Partners Fund. Joined a national Rural Education Working
2005 Highlights
Advocates for Community & Rural Education is incorporated in Arkansas. With assistance from Rural School & CommunityTrust, bylaws and application for tax-exempt status were submitted.
2004 Highlights
Joined broad coalition to enact an education reform agenda, resulting in funding for Pre-K, English Language Learners, Distance Learning, Incentives to teach in hard-to-staff schools,
