Sharing lessons about nonprofit management, CEO Sarah Brown uses her own organization, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, as a jumping off point in this University podcast. Brown first discusses statistics and issues surrounding teen pregnancy, as well as recent events that have captured media attention. Addressing a group of Stanford MBA students, she then talks about the nuts and bolts of setting up and sustaining a nonprofit venture. Her advice covers areas such as choosing an issue to focus on, establishing a mission and goals, obtaining and sustaining funding, measuring performance, and managing controversy and other challenges. Brown was invited by the Public Management Program to the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford University to talk about nonprofit management.
Sarah Brown is the CEO of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, a private and independent nonprofit organization working to promote values, behavior, and policies that reduce both teen pregnancy and unplanned pregnancy among young adults. Before helping to found the campaign, Brown was a senior study director at the Institute of Medicine, where she directed numerous studies in the broad field of maternal and child health. Her last major report there resulted in the landmark book The Best Intentions: Unintended Pregnancy and the Well-being of Children and Families. She has served on advisory boards of many influential national organizations including the Guttmacher Institute, the Population Advisory Board of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the Mayor’s Committee on Reducing Teenage Pregnancies and Out-of-Wedlock Births, and Teen People magazine. She holds an undergraduate degree from Stanford University and a master's in public health from the University of North Carolina.
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