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Dharma's Giving Back for 2016 Now that we are well into the new year, we’ve the updated the Giving Back section on the Dharma website reflecting the results of our 2016 charitable picks. For the third year in a row, our donations have well exceeded $100,000 to organizations benefiting the [...]
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Spring Bank Dharma is privileged to announce a new partnership with Spring Bank – a community bank serving the needs of underserved consumers and small businesses in the New York Metropolitan area. In addition, Spring Bank recently became a certified B Corporation, joining a community of companies recognized for socially [...]
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Sparrow is a U.S. national wireless service provider that we think you will love, due to its Get One, Give One model. For every customer who subscribes to Sparrow mobile service (Sponsor Sparrow) they donate a smartphone or service to someone in need (Impact Sparrow) with the goal of creating [...]
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Transparency I have been invited to speak about transparency on a panel that the local B Corp community is sponsoring next week. I don't know if there is such a thing as an expert on this subject, but I can tell you that I have over 25 years of experience [...]
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Giving Back – Prison Mindfulness Institute This month we are highlighting The Prison Mindfulness Institute, whose mission is to provide prisoners, prison staff, and volunteers with effective, evidence-based tools for rehabilitation, self-transformation, and personal development, using proven mindfulness-based interventions. The higher aspiration is to transform the correction system as a [...]
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We Respect All To borrow a line from the B Corp movement, our company was formed to be a force for good; to support and to serve the community of all beings in need. In addition to being a certified B Corp, Conscious Capitalism member, Green Business Network member, Social [...]
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Giving Back Normally we highlight a specific nonprofit to which we have made a donation so that our stakeholders can get a sense for the type of charities that we support as part of our Giving Back program. Soon we’ll be updating our website with the list of 2016 beneficiaries, [...]
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A Practice of Giving Earlier last month I came up with an idea about giving since the end of the year is the traditional giving season. It occurred to me that even though our company gives over $100k/year to charitable organizations, as individuals, we might not be exercising the giving [...]
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Happiness Ever since we committed to the Triple Bottom Line + (TBL+) framework of People, Planet, Profit + Purpose, we continue to evolve our understanding about what makes us happy at Dharma. We know that happiness is not a goal in and of itself (the myth being perpetrated by the [...]
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Best of the World Award for Workers In the shameless self-promotion department, Dharma is proud to announce winning a Best of the World Award for Workers. These are businesses that B Lab has determined have scored in the top 10 percent of all Certified B Corporations on the assessment, and [...]
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