Puget Sound Community Change Beneficiaries
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The Puget Sound Community Change Program launched in the Seattle area in October 2007. The revolutionary program generates money for local schools and nonprofits and enables citizen consumers to make conscientious spending decisions to affect how money circulates within the community.
The goal is to shift dollars to the common good by generating cash rewards for consumers and local community. When members use their cards with a participating merchant, a percentage of the transaction is returned as a cash reward to the consumer and an equal percentage is donated to a non-profit or school.
The program provider, Interra www.interraproject.org, and its programs facilitate a new economic infrastructure, empowering a community-based movement. Citizen consumers align daily economic choices and our deepest human values.
Interra founders Dee Hock, founder of Visa International, Greg Steltenpohl, founder of Odwalla Juices, and Jon Ramer have identified over one hundred cities as probable markets over the next 3-5 years. Following the Seattle area launch, a Bay Area card will come online as well as a Salmon Nation card, to incorporate the entire bioregion. Throughout the next few years, Interra will create a nation-wide economic network that links everyday transactions to charitable giving and a powerful social statement while growing a more values-based economy.
Puget Sound Community Change beneficiaries by area of focus:
| Area of Focus | Beneficiaries |
| Agriculture and Farming | PCC Farmland Trust |
| Arts | ArtsFund |
| Children and Youth | All Local Schools in Washington State Institute for Children's Environmental Health ICEH Children's Alliance |
| Coastal and Marine Ecosystems |
Alliance for Puget Sound Shorelines |
| Conservation | Stewardship Partners |
| Climate Change | Climate Solutions |
| Health | Washington Toxics Coalition |
| Religion and Ecology | Interfaith Taskforce on Homelessness Earth Ministry |
| Human Rights and Social Justice | Seattle Human Services Coalition |
| Sustainable Business |
African American Business Directory Environmental Coalition of South Seattle |
| Sustainability Education | Environmental Education Association of WA |
| Sustainable Cities and Design | Sustainable Seattle |
