Sally Richards has accepted the position of SCAN’s director of development and will begin on Sept. 8. Since moving to Alexandria in 2014, Richards has been involved with grant writing and fundraising locally at Volunteer Alexandria, where she spearheaded their free agent fundraising during Spring2Action in April.
Richards volunteers with the Del Ray Business Association, Volunteer Alexandria and Career-Confidence.org. Before moving, she was an attorney working as a Guardian ad Litem in Ohio, where she also served on the board of Conneaut Community Foundation, Inc. and consulted for the Conneaut Historical Society. Richards graduated with a law degree from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University and a B.A. from RIT Eisenhower College.
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) of Northern Virginia is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the well-being of children, improve parent-child relations and prevent child abuse and neglect. See www.scanva.org.