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Changing the world while making a living. At PCDN we tell you how. If you are passionate about changing the world we are passionate about helping you.

Joined April 2009
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Fastest-growing US jobs to 2035, per BLS: Nurse practitioners +41%, median $132,300 Solar installers +37%, median $53,140 Data scientists +35%, median $120,230 Home health aides add 847,300 jobs at a median $35,800. bls.gov/ooh/fastest-growing.…
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Almost every day someone reaches out to me for career advice. Laid off, burnt out, or done building widgets while the world is in deep crisis. Where I point people: PCDN's free AI for Impact platform, the Career Campus, AI tools trained on your sector, your university career
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1,100+ live impact roles on the PCDN job board. Employers post from $25. Unite America, Princeton University and the Pulitzer Center have recruited here. jobs.pcdn.global/post
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35 opportunities in Friday's PCDN Career Digest. 15 published the pay. Lowest: a £15,000 fellowship stipend in London. Highest: $191,386 at Results for America. 19 gave no figure. Free 7-day trial, from $1.50 a month: pcdnglobal.beehiiv.com/upgra…
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2.33 million young Colombians are neither studying nor working, 21.1% of ages 15 to 28 (DANE). This week's PCDN Weekly Impact: eight ways to keep going in a hard market, plus 30 impact jobs from $45,000 remote to $282,200. Free: pcdn-impact.beehiiv.com/
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200+ episodes of the Social Change Career Podcast. 30 ratings on Apple Podcasts. Season 16 is recording now. A rating takes ten seconds and helps the next listener find the show. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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45% of AI assistant answers about the news had a significant issue. Gemini: 76% (EBU and BBC study, 22 broadcasters). ebu.ch/news/2025/10/ai-s-sys…
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Day 11/30 with Boardy. More impact programs are adding AI coaches and chatbots. Few say who's responsible when the tool misses a crisis. DW's new film on AI and psychotherapy: youtube.com/watch?v=ojOdB-7D…
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Grand Bargain target, set 2016: 25% of humanitarian funding to local and national responders. Delivered in 2023: 4.5% of trackable funding. From Grand Bargain donors themselves, 0.6%. Development Initiatives:
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Day 10 of 30 with Boardy. Send me your career questions. Pew: most US workers never asked for more pay on their current job. Of those who did, two in three got more than the first offer. PCDN Career Campus: pcdn.global/launching-pcdn-c…
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Weak ties beat strong ties in software-heavy, automated industries. In less-automated ones, strong ties win. Humanitarian and field development work sits on the second side of that line. Rajkumar et al., Science 2022, 20M+ LinkedIn members:
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"You are not going to be able to submit that in 10 days." Marcela Ochoa Bernal on fellowship calls. The window is short, the paperwork is not. Her answer: read last year's call, get degrees translated and apostilled, line up recommenders, all before the call opens.
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"80% of jobs are never advertised" has no source. What does: referrals convert at 1 hire per 16 candidates, applications at 1 per 152 (Lever via SHRM). Referred people were 6% of applicants and 29% of hires (NY Fed, 62,127 applications). impactai.pcdn.global
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