Nonprofit Center
Program Benefits
The Locals Care program generates revenue for nonprofit organization’s and there’s no direct cost to the organization to participate in the program.
Participating nonprofit organizations receive quarterly payments aggregating all merchant donation amounts. It’s a sustainable revenue stream that’s designed to help support the nonprofit organization’s community-building work.
Community Cardholders benefit from the program two ways:
- They earn Community Points (rewards) that they can redeem at any Locals Care
business.
- They have the personal satisfaction of supporting
a nonprofit organization in a convenient, meaningful way.
Why shop locally owned?
By encouraging your supporters to shop at Locals Care businesses and dine at
Locals Care restaurants, local nonprofit organization s help locally owned
businesses to thrive. In an increasingly competitive business environment,
this is vitally important to the members of our community who own or work at
locally owned businesses.
Locally owned businesses:
- Donate more money, as a percentage of sales, to our community’s nonprofit
organizations
- Create the most jobs, which are, on average, higher paying
- Provide the backbone of our gross receipts tax
- Recycle over three times more dollars back into the local economy
- Are more invested in a healthy future for our community, including providing more opportunities for our youth to develop and flourish
The Locals Care program helps market the Community Card to your supporters with:
- Informational materials
- A package of support materials
