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SF Green Film Festival – March 2012 The San Francisco Green Film Festival begins next week, March 1 with a slate of films that will intrigue you, enlighten you, maybe even anger you a little, but ultimately inspire you. Join them on a week long cinematic journey which will take [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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! [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]