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Last week, the York Revolution forfeited a baseball game. Not because of an injury, a weather delay, or anything that happens on the field. The Revs forfeited their 11th annual Pride Night game because several players refused to wear the rainbow-sleeved jersey scheduled for the night. Faced with too few players willing to take the field, leadership made the call to forfeit the game while keeping Pride Night itself alive as a free community celebration. I work in equity. So in

From the Inside Out: What Eight Years with United Way Taught Me About Values-Driven

It happens more than you’d think. A business owner steps away for a vacation, and while they’re gone, their Facebook account gets hacked. By the time they realize what happened, the damage is done — their personal profile is compromised, their business page is inaccessible, and the process of getting it all back is a slow, frustrating maze of Meta support forms and identity verification requests. I’ve seen this happen to clients firsthand, and the truth is: most of it is prev

As a child, I struggled with change. We once got a new refrigerator, and I cried at the thought of losing our old one. I share this...