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Co-Founder Alexia Marcous featured on Entrepreneurs For a Change Dharma co-founder Alexia Marcous’s interview with Lorna Li is featured on Entrepeneurs for a Change. Take your socially responsible business to the next level by practicing sacred commerce. Alexia Marcous is the co-founder of Dharma Merchant Services and she’s passionate about bringing work-life balance into focus and […]

This Month’s Being Game: Awakening! This month our Sacred Commerce practice reaches for the stars with being Awakening! We asked our Dharma Dream Team to weigh in on what Awakening meant to them.  We’re thrilled to share their answers… Awakening can be tricky in my experience because the more I want it the more I […]

Dharma is Among the First Benefit Corps in California Dharma Merchant Services was privileged to become one of the first California companies to register as a Benefit Corporation. “Benefit Corporation” provides a new legal structure to registered S or C Corps that allows companies to legally expand their purpose beyond exclusively maximizing shareholder value. Benefit […]

Featured Merchant: Voyager This month we’re proud to feature Voyager, owned by successful entrepreneur Robert Patterson.  We have the good fortune of working with Robert at two of his other ventures: Revolver and Ken Ken Ramen. The Voyager Shop is a wonderful example of a growing theme in the conscious business world: collaboration.  The shop […]

Dharma featured by Treehugger as one of First California B Corps Dharma Merchant Services was included in an article on Treehugger.com about how Patagonia and other California-based companies were first embracing the opportunity to change their corporate status to become Benefit Corporations. Joining Patagonia in registering as a B Corp on the first available day were: […]

Highlights from Dharma for 2011 We’re grateful for another incredible year for Dharma Merchant Services as we continue to create a powerful brand that is identified with “Right Livelihood”. All you have to do to validate the buzz is to Google the term “merchant services” and see where we appear! Here are some highlights from […]

Top Five Failed PCI Compliance Requirements Many thanks to VeriSign for producing this incredible report on Lessons Learned: Top Reasons for PCI Audit Failure and How To Avoid Them (pdf). We highly recommend reviewing this easy-to-read report if you find yourself going down the non-compliant rabbit hole. Here are the what Verisign reveals as top […]

This Month’s Being Game: Joy and Peace This month our Sacred Commerce practice celebrates our holiday season’s quintessential qualities of being: joy and peace. This season’s emphasis on them gives us an opportunity to reflect on joyful moments: moments passed and moments yet to come. Upon reflection, we are grateful for the lessons, awakening, and […]

Celebrating the 10th Anniversary Green Festival On November 12-13, Green America and Global Exchange hosted the 10th Anniversary Green Festival in San Francisco and Dharma was grateful to be there. We are always excited to see our conscious, sustainable community show up in force to network with each other. This year’s event played host to […]

Green Chamber of Commerce Annual Event 2011 We were delighted to attend the Green Chamber of Commerce Annual Event! Celebrating “A Taste of the Bay” and held at the beautifully remodeled Levi Strauss & Co. headquarters in San Francisco, the event was filled with so many of our favorite Bay Area merchants such as Green […]