Sandra Shelley Email and Phone Number

Responsible for the day-to-day execution of ongoing strategic communications and generating stories for use across multiple communication channels, and, in particular, the division's digital news site and email digest of news and information about the University of Richmond, UR Now.

As a freelance copywriter with the Bergman Group and independently, I've written website content, blogs, press releases, brochures, newsletter articles, emails, and other content for clients such as VCU Pauley Heart Center, Kosmo Machine, BetterMed Urgent Care, VCU Medical Center, Marts & Lundy, Yellow Umbrella, ChildFund USA, Shelley Cupp Schulte, Motleys, Beth Sholom Lifecare Community, Sandler Training, author James K. Glassman and the Richmond Group USA. Researches, writes, and… Show more As a freelance copywriter with the Bergman Group and independently, I've written website content, blogs, press releases, brochures, newsletter articles, emails, and other content for clients such as VCU Pauley Heart Center, Kosmo Machine, BetterMed Urgent Care, VCU Medical Center, Marts & Lundy, Yellow Umbrella, ChildFund USA, Shelley Cupp Schulte, Motleys, Beth Sholom Lifecare Community, Sandler Training, author James K. Glassman and the Richmond Group USA. Researches, writes, and tracks grant application, writes fundraising letters, creates brochures, coordinates videos, and manages social media for Campbell County Educational Foundation.I am a Contributing Editor and a writer for Virginia Living magazine, with a special focus on hospitals and healthcare, Virginiana, and education. Other work includes writing articles for publications such as Adweek, Bride’s, the Richmond News Leader, Richmond magazine, Virginia Business and Shafer Court Connections, and fiction for HandHeld Crime. As a past member of the marketing committee of the Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School's Foundation, I helped write, plan and edit annual reports, brochures, postcards and other marketing materials.My other work for non-profits includes writing articles for Friends of Hollywood Cemetery and conducting grant writing and research for Virginia Commonwealth University’s First Novelist Award, the Billy Austin Sidewalk Project, the William Byrd Community House, and Jake’s Reindeer Race. I handled publicity and wrote direct mail postcards for Forest Hill Presbyterian Church, and wrote fundraising letters and award nominations for the Robert and Mary Anderson Charitable Organization. I taught a creative writing workshop for children at the Peter Paul Development Center. Show less

I worked as a permanent, regular, and board substitute for English and Journalism.

I wrote articles for the sponsor newsletter of this international, child relief organization, formerly known as Christian Children's Fund. I have also written extensive, 24-page brochures about the organization’s efforts in Micro-Enterprise Development, HIV/AIDS, Early Childhood Development, Child Centered Spaces, and its programs in West Africa. I wrote a history of the organization and identified critical issues for its 2001 five-year plan, and contributed copy to its 1999, 2006 and 2007… Show more I wrote articles for the sponsor newsletter of this international, child relief organization, formerly known as Christian Children's Fund. I have also written extensive, 24-page brochures about the organization’s efforts in Micro-Enterprise Development, HIV/AIDS, Early Childhood Development, Child Centered Spaces, and its programs in West Africa. I wrote a history of the organization and identified critical issues for its 2001 five-year plan, and contributed copy to its 1999, 2006 and 2007 annual reports. Show less

I wrote articles for claimant and employee newsletters, composed a history, responded to difficult correspondence, wrote blank forms and communications, taught a class in business writing, and served as a Fraud Analyst. In the last position, I reviewed claims and conducted an investigation that resulted in the court dismissal of 30,000 fraudulent claims from the Philippines.

I wrote and proofread articles, and handled the advertising for Virginia Medical, the journal of the Medical Society of Virginia.

I wrote articles about the activities of statewide advertising agencies and served as an administrative assistant for the Houston bureau of this national trade magazine.