RCAP Celebrates Victories for Rural America in New Farm Bill
December 20, 2018 | Advocacy, General RCAP News, Press Releases
Washington, DC (December 20, 2018) – Today, the Rural Community Assistance Partnership, Inc. (RCAP) celebrate the five-year comprehensive Farm Bill as it is signed into law. RCAP submitted recommendations to Congress for the Rural Development Title of the 2018 Farm…
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December 11, 2018 | General RCAP News, Press Releases
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The Fires of Anza Pines
December 3, 2018 | Blog, Disaster, General RCAP News
In late July of 2018, shortly before wildfires would sweep across much of California in what would become the state’s worst year for wildfires on record, firefighters in Riverside County were already hard at work battling the Cranston fire ten…
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Straight From the Tap – Lee Schegg
November 19, 2018 | General RCAP News
Today’s #StraightFromTheTAP highlights a member of our network working in California with RCAP’s Western partner, RCAC. Lee Schegg joined RCAC as a Rural Development Specialist Engineer in 2010. Prior to joining RCAP, Schegg worked for 36 years for the Public…
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November 19, 2018 | General RCAP News
Today’s #StraightFromTheTap spotlights an employee of our Southeastern RCAP, SERCAP. Randy Welch is a Technical Assistance Provider located in North Carolina. Welch has been with SERCAP a little over a year but has over 25 years of water and wastewater…
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November 19, 2018 | Blog, General RCAP News
Today’s #StraightFromTheTap honors Josefa Torres-Olivo. Torres-Olivo works as the District III Director for Puerto Rico and the U.S.Virgin Islands with RCAP Solutions, RCAP’s Northeastern partner. She has been with the organization for 23 dedicated years. Torres-Olivo’s history with RCAP began…
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November 19, 2018 | Blog, General RCAP News
On Today’s #StraightFromTheTap, we are highlighting the amazing work completed by Philip Fishburn, a Technical Assistance Provider working in Kansas for our Midwestern RCAP, MAP. Fishburn has been with the RCAP network for the past 23 years. He has had…
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November 19, 2018 | Blog, General RCAP News
Today’s #StraightFromTheTap shines some light on Charles “Bud” Mason, a Senior Rural Development Specialist working out of our Great Lakes Region. Mason has been with the RCAP network for the past nine years. He has an extensive list of over…
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November 19, 2018 | Blog, General RCAP News
On today’s #StraightFromTheTAP we are spotlighting Gaylene Riley from Oklahoma. Riley joined Communities Unlimited as a Community Environmental Management Specialist over 10 months ago after working for USDA Rural Development for 35+ years as a Community Programs Specialist. At USDA…
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November 14, 2018 | EPA, Funding, General RCAP News, Press Releases, USDA
Washington, DC (November 14, 2018) – TheRural Community Assistance Partnership (RCAP) is pleased to announce that ithas received multiple grants from across federal and philanthropic programs tocontinue its work helping rural communities develop and expand technical capacity throughoutall fifty states, U.S.…
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