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Want to Advance Your Career in this challenging period?
The job market is tough right now. With funding cuts and layoffs, competition for impactful jobs is high, and it's easy to feel stuck.
Our "Accelerate Your Social Impact Career" course on Maven, the best platform for cohort-based learning, offers a practical path forward. We'll help you radically improve your approach and get the results you want.
Why this course works:
Join a community of over 100 professionals from 20+ countries—with backgrounds in startups, foundations, nonprofits, and education—who have successfully navigated their career transitions with us. With a cumulative positive rating of nearly 9 out of 10, our methods are proven to help you succeed.
The course will help you:
Understand what impact employers want and discover which jobs and sectors are hiring.
Improve your application materials, including your resume, cover letters, and LinkedIn profile, so they get noticed.
Put purpose-driven networking at the heart of your strategy, learning how to connect effectively on LinkedIn, online, and in person.
Build custom projects using AI to save 80% or more of your time on many applications, freeing you up to focus on what matters.
Develop confidence for interviews and negotiations to advocate for the salary you deserve.
Build a career, not just find a job, with a long-term strategy for growth.
And much more.
As a newsletter subscriber, you get an exclusive 25% discount and a full year of access to the PCDN Career Campus (with 350+ curated jobs monthly, office hours, and more)!
Most people are using AI tools like tourists with a phrasebook. They get basic answers, but they're missing the real conversation.
The difference between casual AI use and transformative impact lies in personalization. Whether you're using ChatGPT's GPTs, Claude's Projects, or Perplexity's Spaces, the magic happens when you move beyond generic prompts to customized, trained interactions.
Why Custom AI Matters for Impact Work
Free AI tools give you a Swiss Army knife. Personalized AI gives you a precision instrument designed for your specific mission. When you train an AI on your organization's data, specify your target audiences, and define your preferred outputs, you transform a general assistant into a specialized partner that understands your impact goals.
For social entrepreneurs, this means AI that speaks your language, understands your sector's nuances, and consistently delivers content that resonates with your stakeholders.
Getting Started: Key Tips
Define Your Mission Context: Start by creating detailed prompts that explain your organization's mission, target audience, and preferred communication style. The more specific you are, the better your AI partner becomes.
Upload Your Best Content: Feed your AI examples of your most effective writing, successful grant proposals, or impactful social media posts. This creates a baseline for tone and quality.
Set Clear Output Parameters: Specify exactly what you want - email templates, blog post structures, social media formats. Don't leave room for generic responses.
Iterate and Refine: Regularly review outputs and adjust your training data. AI learning mirrors human learning - it improves with feedback and practice.
Common Challenges
Data Overwhelm: Many users upload everything without curation. Quality beats quantity. Choose your best 10-20 pieces rather than dumping entire folders.
Prompt Paralysis: Starting with overly complex instructions often backfires. Begin simple and layer complexity gradually.
Consistency Struggles: Without regular use and refinement, even well-trained AI tools drift toward generic outputs. Schedule regular check-ins to maintain quality.
Cost Concerns: Yes, most tools require paid accounts starting around $20 monthly. But consider the time savings and quality improvements as an investment in your impact efficiency.
Making It Accessible
For anyone who wants to try Perplexity Pro, feel free to use our affiliate link for one month free - it's our current favorite LLM tool. For singing up with our link we also get a free month.
What's Next
Want more? Consider signing up to be informed when we launch our next cohort of our AI for Social Impact course and/or join our Career Campus.
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Gamma 3.0: Design the Way It Should Be
The PCDN team has been using Gamma for the past year, and we absolutely love it. Gamma 3.0 just launched with even better features, and it's transforming how we create presentations, documents, and websites.
Here's why we're obsessed with Gamma:
Saves us hours per week on content creation
Super easy to design - No steep learning curve or design expertise required
Constantly improving - Each update makes it better and better
Professional results - Every output looks polished and presentation-ready
Multi-format flexibility - Create presentations, documents, and websites seamlessly
AI-powered intelligence - Handles layouts, colors, and design decisions automatically
Whether you're building impact presentations, workshop materials, or campaign websites, Gamma eliminates the design bottleneck that holds back changemakers. After a full year of using it, we can confidently say this is design the way it should be - intuitive, fast, and consistently impressive.
The quality keeps improving with every release, making our content creation process smoother and our outputs more professional.
Ready to transform your design workflow?
News & Resources
😅 Joke of the Day
Why did the nonprofit’s AI refuse to cross the road?
It detected a “chicken-and-ethics” issue and escalated to governance.
📰 News
UN week: push for global AI “red lines” — As the UN General Assembly convenes, leaders and Nobel laureates urge binding AI safeguards and enforcement by 2026.
Read on NBC NewsPop culture meets AI ethics — The Morning Show’s new season centers on deepfakes and misuse, aiming to spark public debate on regulation and media trust.
Read on Reuters
🌍 Organization to Watch
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) — Builds open mapping tech (Tasking Manager, fAIr, OpenAerialMap) and trains communities to create life-saving geodata. Strong commitment to open source, local leadership, and ethical AI use in crisis mapping.
Explore HOT’s work
💼 Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
Anthropic — Hiring across research, infra, policy, and go-to-market; currently 100+ openings spanning multiple teams and locations. If you’re moving into AI safety, alignment, or reliability, this is a strong pipeline to watch.
Explore careers • View all open roles
🔗 LinkedIn Connection
Anna Levy — Public-interest data & governance leader; great follow for evidence-based, equitable data/AI policy and civic tech insights.
Connect with Anna Levy