How a private sector executive founded her own global nonprofit

When Saundra Pelletier traded her private sector pharmaceutical job for the unknown, lie-awake-at-night world of founding her own nonprofit, her colleagues thought she was having a midlife crisis.

Becoming the CEO of WomanCare Global, which provides access to reproductive health solutions for women and girls around the world, Pelletier recalled that the transition didn’t come without a few panicked moments.

“The jump from private sector to nonprofit is a bit like leaping over the Grand Canyon. The acronyms alone are daunting,” she told Devex.

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