UMass-Boston joins city retail-card program

The University of Massachusetts Boston and the Boston Main Streets program announced a partnership to promote the Boston Community Change card among the university's more than 75,000 students, faculty and staff, and alumni.

The partnership was announced by Mayor Thomas M. Menino and Chancellor J. Keith Motley (right).

The Boston Community Change affinity card, when used at participating businesses throughout Boston’s 19 Main Streets neighborhoods, provides customers with an earned cash rebate and directs a portion of each purchase toward the Boston Main Streets Foundation and a nonprofit or school of the cardholder’s choosing, the mayor's office said in a press release.

The Boston Community Change program was founded in 2006, and the card is now accepted by more than 200 businesses in neighborhoods from West Roxbury and Dorchester to East Boston and Allston/Brighton, the mayor's office said.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)