Membership Eligibility - Harvard Federal Credit Union

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If you’re seeking to become a member of Harvard FCU, we have a pathway for you to join! Harvard FCU is open to all Harvard affiliates, including: faculty, staff, students, alumni, and retirees of Harvard University, Harvard teaching hospitals, and affiliated organizations. Don’t fit into one of those categories? Don’t worry, there are other ways to qualify! Learn more below.

Once you become a member, your family members also qualify to be members. Your money will always be easily accessible, with convenient services like shared branching and digital banking. Membership is good for life, even when you graduate, move, or change employers.

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Harvard FCU partners with a number of affiliates and organizations that are eligible for membership, including Harvard students, employees, alumni, employees of Harvard teaching hospitals, and more. Find out if your organization is eligible using the lists below.

In addition, those who live, work, worship, or attend school in a number of different census tracts throughout Boston are also eligible for membership at Harvard FCU! Look for your census tract below.

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Census Tracts

Areas that qualify for membership

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Essex County, MA Census Tracts:

Swampscott: 2021.04
Lynn: 2052.00, 2055.00, 2056.00, 2057.00, 2058.00, 2059.00, 2060.00, 2061.00, 2062.00, 2064.00, 2065.00, 2066.00, 2067.00, 2068.00, 2069.00, 2070.00, 2071.00, and 2072.00
Saugus: 2083.01, and 2083.02

Middlesex County, MA Census Tracts:

Melrose: 3364.04
Medford: 3391.01, 3397.00, 3399.00
Malden: 3412.00, 3413.01, 3414.00, 3415.00, 3416.00, 3417.00, 3418.00, 3419.01, and 3419.04
Everett: 3421.01, 3421.02, 3422.01, 3422.02, 3423.01, 3423.02, 3424.01, 3424.02, 3425.01, 3425.02, and 3426
Somerville: 3501.06, 3501.07, 3501.08, 3501.09, 3512.03, 3514.03, 3514.04, and 3515
Cambridge: 3521.01, 3521.02, 3522.00, 3523.00, 3524.00, 3525.00, 3526.00, 3527.00, 3528.00, 3529.00, 3530.00, 3531.01, 3531.02, 3532.00, 3533.00, 3537.00, 3538.00, 3539.00, 3540.00, 3541.00, and 3594.00
Belmont: 3574.00
Watertown: 3702.01, 3703.01, 3703.02, 3704.03, and 3731.00

Norfolk County, MA Census Tracts:

Brookline: 4001.00, and 4002.02

Suffolk County, MA Census Tracts:

Allston: 0001.02, 0007.04, 0006.04, 0008.05, 0008.06, and 0008.07
Brighton: 0002.01, 0002.02, 0003.01, 0003.02, 0004,01, 0005.02, 0005.03, 0005.05, 0005.06, 0006.03, 0007.01, and 0007.03
Fenway: 0101.03, 0101.04, 0102.04, 0102.05, 0102.06, 0104.03, 0104.04, 0104.05, and 0104.08
Longwood: 0103.00
Back Bay: 0105.00
Westend: 0203.01, and 0203.04
Downtown Boston: 0303.01, and 0303.02
Charlestown: 402.00, 0406.00, and 0408.01
East Boston: 0501.01, 0502.00, 0503.00, 0504.00, 0505.00, 0506.00, 0507.00, 0509.01, 0510.00, 0511.01, and 9815.02
Seaport: 606.03, and 0606.04
South Boston: 0607.00, 0610.00, 0611.01, 0612.01, and 0612.03
Downtown Boston: 0701.02
Chinatown: 0701.03, 0702.01, 0702.02, and 0704.02,
South End: 0705.02, 0709.01, 0709.02, 0711.01, and 0712.01
Columbus Ave: 0706.00, 0708.01, and 0708.02
Roxbury: 0801.00, 0803.00, 0804.01, 0805.00, and 0806.01
Mission Hill: 0808.01, 0809.00, 0810.01, 0811.01, and 0811.02
Jamaica Plain: 0812.00, and 0813.01
Washington Park: 0813.02, 0815.00, 0817.00, 0818.00, 0819.00, 0820.00, and 0821.00
Fort Hill: 0814.00
Dorchester: 0901.00, 0902.00, 0903.00, 0904.00, 0906.00, 0907.00, 0909.01, 0910.01, 0911.00, 0912.00, 0913.00, 0914.00, 0915.00, 0916.00, 0917.00, 0918.00, 0919.00, 0920.00, 0921.01, 0922.00, 0923.00, 0924.00, 1001.00, 1002.00, 1003.00, 1004.00, 1005.00, and 1006.01
Mattapan: 1010.01, 1010.02, 1011.01, and 1011.02
Roslindale: 1101.04, 1102.01, 1103.01, 1104.01, and 1104.03
Hyde Square: 1205.00
West Roxbury: 1304.06
Hyde Park: 1401.02, 1401.05, 1401.06, 1403.00, and 1404.00
Chelsea: 1601.02, 1601.03, 1602.00, 1603.00, 1604.00, 1605.01, 1605.02, 1606.01, and 1606.02
Revere: 1701.01, 1701.02, 1702.00, 1703.01, 1703.02, 1704.00, 1705.02, 1705.03, 1705.04, 1706.01, 1707.01, 17070.2, and 1708.00
Winthrop: 1801.01
Franklin Field North: 9803.00
Charles River and Misc. Parks: 9815.01, and 9818.00

Other Ways to Qualify

If you want to become a member of Harvard FCU, we can make it happen! Here are a couple of other that anyone could qualify:

Census tracts – Do you live, work, worship, or attend school in one of the above census tracts? A number of areas throughout Boston qualify! For a map of covered areas, click here, and to look up your address, click here!

Financial Fitness Association – If you become a member of the Financial Fitness Association, then you automatically qualify for membership at Harvard FCU. Harvard FCU will cover the $8 annual membership fee for the first year, and there is no obligation for you to renew your FFA membership after that; once you are a member of the Credit Union, you’re a member for life! To join, simply select this as an option on your Membership Application.

Family Membership

Once you’re a member of Harvard FCU, everyone in your immediate family also becomes eligible. Better yet, once a family member joins, this same eligibility tree extends from them.