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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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Merchant of the Month – Poco Dolce The only thing better than highlighting a merchant that produces high-end chocolate goodies is eating said high-end chocolate goodies! As you could probably guess, we are mostly all chocolate snobs at Dharma, with the possible exception of a certain staff member with 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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Tax Time News Part 1 – Dharma Merchant Services has a new partnership with Taxfyle – a small business on-demand marketplace where you have access to the highest tax and accounting knowledge. Merchants can submit jobs, connect with a licensed professional, exchange documents, and sign for returns all on a [...]
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Merchant of the Month – One Medical One Medical is the national leader in technology-enabled primary care – focused on improving the quality, service, and affordability of healthcare for all. It has over 50 office locations in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. [...]
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Credit Card Industry Update on EMV As a short review of matters of interest in the credit card industry, here is a notable update from this past year. The Europay Mastercard Visa initiative, or EMV for short, completes its first year of adoption here in the U.S., which requires all [...]
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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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What does the phrase e-commerce bring to mind? Amazon? Ebay? Steam? Most people know the big names, and understand that it refers to buying and selling products and services online. What they might not understand is that the concept of e-commerce has grown immensely in recent years. Most business, be [...]
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Merchant of the Month – The Cheese Board Collective “Worker-Owned Since 1971” The Cheese Board opened as a small cheese store in 1967. The two original owners sold their business to their employees in 1971 and created a 100% worker owned business of which they remained a part. The transition [...]
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