Sights for Hope Board of Directors Welcomes Three New Members

Denise Shaffer, Toney Horst, and Walter Roland, IV, have joined the Sights for Hope Board of Directors.

Shaffer, the Immediate Past District Governor of Pennsylvania Lions District 14-K, is the board’s 2024-2025 Lions Leadership Director. Horst and Roland have been elected to three-year terms. Board Treasurer Daniel Lombardo also began his second three-year term as a board member on July 1.

Shaffer is the Controller for the Allied Building Corporation in Bethlehem, PA, and has worked in construction accounting for more than 35 years. She has been a member of the Whitehall Lions Club since 2016, and has been as a Christian education director, youth minister, and board member for the Whitehall Township Public Library.

Horst is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of American Bank. She is a Certified Public Accountant and has more than 30 years of experience in finance, accounting, and banking. Her work in the community has included service as Board Treasurer of Camelot for Children in Allentown, PA, and Board Treasurer of the Greater Susquehanna Valley Chamber of Commerce in Shamokin Dam, PA.

Roland is a Financial Services Representative for MassMutual Eastern Pennsylvania and 360 Wealth Strategies. Earlier in his career, he was a top-producing retirement planner for ADP, Inc. and worked in the venture capital industry. Roland has a degree in Corporate Communications and Business from Penn State Lehigh Valley. He is remains active with the school as a volunteer for its Business & Technology Advisory Council and Lehigh Valley LaunchBox program.

Sights for Hope’s Board of Directors represents the American people as stewards of the organization. It holds fiduciary responsibility and provides strategic direction to ensure the fulfillment of its mission and vision.

Sights for Hope transforms the lives of people with visual impairments and blindness by removing the barriers to their independence. Sights for Hope’s services teach adaptive skills to accomplish daily life activities; provide supports that counter the effects of visual impairments and blindness; increase access to medical care, healthy food, and other essentials; and advance solutions that enhance sight capabilities. More than 40% of Sights for Hope’s clients live below or near the federal poverty line. Founded in 1928, Sights for Hope carries forward in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley and Monroe County a tradition of service inspired by Helen Keller and is a member of the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind.

Image: Headshots of Denise Shaffer, Toney Horst, and Walter Roland, IV.