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The International Institute of the Bay Area IIBA provides high-quality immigration legal services, education, and civic engagement opportunities to immigrants, refugees, and their families as they join and contribute to the community. With its eight offices throughout the San Francisco Bay Area that provide legal immigration and other services, as well as through its collaborative […]
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David Brower Center Berkeley, California native David R. Brower is considered by many to be the father of the modern environmental movement. Eighty-eight years of courageous, contentious, and joyful activism made Brower one of the most successful advocates the Earth has ever known. The David Brower Center provides a home for the environmental movement by […]
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Skip the Slip! As a certified B Corp and a conscious company committed to the triple bottom line of people, planet, and profit, we are always looking for ways to reduce our footprint — meaning how can we operate with the least waste of resources and energy. Green America (of which I am board chair) […]
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Giving Back – ICT This month we are acknowledging the work of an organization for which Dharma’s founder has been a supporter of for over 20 years: International Campaign for Tibet or ICT. Ever since His Holiness the Dalai Lama was forced to leave the country back in 1959, the people and culture of Tibet […]
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Mercy Corps We’re proud to introduce this month’s Giving Back recipient. Headquartered in Portland, OR, Mercy Corps is a global humanitarian organization empowering people to recover from crisis, build better lives and transform their communities for good. In more than 40 countries, they partner to put bold solutions into action, helping people triumph over adversity […]
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Special Operations Warrior Foundation One of the reasons that Dharma Merchant Services exists is to be of benefit to our community in a meaningful manner, and one of the ways we have fulfilled that commitment from the very first year is to donate a large proportion of our profits to charitable organizations, through our Giving […]
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Merchant of the Month – Plow to Porch Organics Dharma has boarded hundreds of new merchants already this year, but one of our standouts is Plow to Porch Organics in Santa Barbara, California. There are many companies with the model of delivering weekly boxes of food to subscribers, but we have never seen one with […]
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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 people, animals, and planet that […]
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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 whole in order to mitigate […]
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Dharma’s Giving Back – charity: water charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries. They invest the money raised into organizations with years of experience to build sustainable, community-owned water projects around the world. Their team works closely to ensure that every dollar is accounted for […]
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