Candace Vanderwater
As President and Chief Executive Officer, Candace Vanderwater leads Volunteers of America Chesapeake & Carolinas, a $57.7 million organization with approximately 900 employees, serving nearly 9,800 individuals across Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia, and the Carolinas.
Vanderwater joined VOACC in 2011 as Director of Northern Virginia Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) Services. In 2014, she was promoted to Vice President of Strategy and Organizational Development, where she led the strategic planning process and developed growth and capacity-building initiatives. She later assumed executive oversight of Homeless Services, Substance Use Disorder Services, and I/DD Services across Virginia.