Rural Community Development Corporation of California

Supporting Disadvantaged Rural Communities

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Alma Hernandez

Alma Hernandez

Alma Hernandez has over 20 years experience working in rural, largely immigrant, communities developing leadership through cooperative efforts and placing community members at the forefront of decision making processes. Currently, Alma serves as a District Representative for County Supervisor, Joan Hartmann. She has served as a director of the Guadalupe’s Little House by the Park, where her focus included the promotion of open, communal, multicultural, and artistic spaces. Successful collaborative efforts include the establishment of Santa Maria’s first Cultural and Creative Arts Center of the Santa Maria Valley, Ciclovia in the City of Guadalupe and Dual Immersion in Santa Maria. She has served as chair of the Dune’s Center Internal Affairs Committee and Board, Vice President on the CAUSE Board of Directors and as a Board Member for The Fund for Santa Barbara. Alma was born in Arizona to a first generation immigrant family from Mexico and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cal Poly and a Master’s in Public Administration from Cal State Northridge. ​

Rural Community Development

Community Development   is a process whereby diverse and representative groups of community members come together to take collective action and generate solutions (plans) for common problems; building livable, sustainable communities in the process.

Rural Community Development   is the above, with an understanding that many rural communities lack the resources and capacity to manage this process without assistance, training, resources, and technical assistance.

Why
Aside from the most important reason (it’s needed), if not for our rural communities who would manage our forests? Who would protect our waterways? Who would put the food on our plates? Who would provide those services travelers expect as they drive the many freeways?

California’s rural communities have, as we all know, very limited resources. The more donations we receive the less community funding we will need. Thank you.

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RCDCC is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization. Our ID is 82-1325014
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