NOMINATIONS SOUGHT FOR RURAL VOLUNTEER AWARDWest Sacramento, Calif. — RCAC, the Western RCAP, seeks nominations for the 2014 Yoneo Ono Rural Volunteer Award. RCAC will accept nominations until April 13, 2014.Many rural volunteers spend long, unpaid hours helping individuals and…
read moreEarlier this afternoon, USDA Rural Development announced $27.7 million in grant awards to rural native villages in Alaska to improve water and wastewater systems. The funding comes from the Rural Alaska Village Grant (RAVG) program. The RAVG program was established…
read moreThis week, USDA’s Economic Research Service released its annual report on the economic condition of rural America – the 2013 Rural America at a Glance report. The data in this report underscores the challenges of stagnant job growth and persistent…
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