Double Impact Opps, PCDN Weekly Newsletter, May 8, 2026

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Double the Opps

There are so many great impact opportunities even though it's a very challenging market. We're doing a second issue of the weekly newsletter. If you have any suggestions, questions, or tips, we always love hearing from our community and we appreciate if you'd also let others know about the newsletter and PCDN.

Feel free to offer any comments or questions by responding to this email or using our feedback form.

I’ve spent the past two months vibe-coding an amazing project—honestly, it's something I’ve wanted to build for 30 years. And I'm finally sharing the beta here https://pcdnaiimpact.netlify.app/

Quick heads up before we get into it: please don't share this with anyone else just yet. We’re only sending to people in our community and some peers for now to get lots of feedback and input.

Welcome to AI and Impact Careers. It’s a one-stop shop to help impact professionals prepare for the future of work today.

We completely ditched the hype and the doom. Instead, we built something evidence-based that looks at how the nature of careers is actually changing.

Since it's a beta, it still needs some features, but right now we’ve got real news, deep dives on upskilling, a salary negotiator, a brilliant career coach and some actual humor. There’s even a safe space to ask all those AI questions you’re afraid to ask.

Right now, I just want you to test it. Break it. Help us understand what works.

Because it is a beta, not everything is perfect yet. The specific job listings aren’t fully live, for example, but there is an amazing job board in there right now to explore.

So, go check it out this week. Let us know if you feel inspired, terrified, or if it makes you want to quit your job and open a bookstore. All of that is valid.

To help us out, just click on "Beta Feedback" at the top of the site and tell us what breaks, what’s missing, and what makes you roll your eyes.

Anyone who leaves feedback and enters their emails gets entered to win one of five six-month Career Digest subscriptions.

Thanks for taking a look and helping us build this. Really.

Learn More and Give it a Try

Expression of Interest: Chief of Staff (Operations Team) | 80,000 Hours, UK or Remote

80,000 Hours helps talented people work on the world's most pressing problems, especially mitigating risks from advanced AI. Millions of people engage with our content each year, and thousands have changed their careers because of our work. We're looking for a chief of staff who can help us build a best-in-class operations function: one that sets the bar for what operations looks like at a high-impact organisation. They'll act as a thought partner to our director of operations (DoO) and take on much of the work involved in leading and running the team.

Kickstarting For Good

An 18-week incubation programme aimed specifically at nonprofits and impact initiatives transforming the food system towards a plant-forward future.

Teaching and Learning Specialist (Associate Director or Program Analyst, depending on experience) at The Luminos Fund, Remote

The Luminos Fund, a fast-growing international nonprofit bringing education opportunities to the world’s most vulnerable children, is looking for a Teaching and Learning Specialist.

Sr. Director, Academic Affairs (Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation) | Johns Hopkins University

,the Senior Director of Academic Affairs leads the design and implementation of an applied research portfolio grounded in the Center's public innovation programs, which seek to strengthen local government capacity to address important public problems with the support of grants and other resources.

Head of Editorial + Platforms, Mozilla Ecosystem, US, Remote

About Mozilla.org Founded in 1998, the Mozilla Project is a family of nonprofits and companies that build technology and mobilize communities to advance the

Evidence Action hiring (Senior) Director, Impact Strategy & Innovation in Nairobi

MIT Solve, Global Challenge

For our 10th Anniversary Global Challenge, we’re seeking 10 exceptional solutions built for the next decade: solving urgent problems and proving credible pathways to scale, whether through markets, policy, procurement, or platforms. We’re interested in innovations that put people first, and pair technological ingenuity with trust and durable economics.

Senior Researcher, LGBT Rights Program, Human Rights Watch

Multiple Locations Considered

Head of Trust & Safety, Upscrolled

UpScrolled is an independent social media platform built on a simple idea: people should control what they see, say, and share online

Calls for Consultants

Review of the Building Effective Networks (BEN) approach

Vacancy: Regional Lead (Africa) | GNDR

Vacancy: Regional Lead (Africa) at GNDR. GNDR is looking to recruit a new Regional Lead for Africa.

Senior Domestic Policy Analyst, Bread for the World, DC

Bread for the World is a Christian advocacy organization urging U.S. decision makers to do all they can to pursue a world without hunger. Our mission is to educate and equip people to advocate for policies and programs that can help end hunger in the U.S. and around the world.

Alliance for Youth Organising Co-Leads, UK

We are an intergenerational group of organisers and campaigners from across the UK working to shift power and money to young people. We support young people to organise towards change that serves them and their communities. We prioritise social, economic, racial, disability, gender and environmental justice in all we do.

CONSULTORÍA PARA EL REDISEÑO TÉCNICO, PEDAGÓGICO Y METODOLÓGICO DE LA CARTILLA DE EDUCACIÓN EN EMERGENCIAS (EIE) - Colombia

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Social Impact News & Resources

😄 Joke of the Day

I joined a Zoom on systems change, and somehow the only system that changed was my microphone settings.

🌐 News

Global Voices is putting fresh energy into constructive storytelling with its new focus on climate solutions from communities around the world. It is the kind of editorial shift that feels especially welcome right now: grounded, global, and focused on action instead of doom alone.
A new Guardian piece reports that inequality is causing more than 100,000 extra deaths each year from heat and cold in Europe. It is a sharp reminder that climate justice is not a side conversation to social policy, but one of the clearest tests of whether societies protect people unequally exposed to risk.
Mongabay warns that climate change could erase most of South America’s cloud forests by 2070, threatening biodiversity and regional water systems at the same time. The story lands hard because it connects ecosystem loss directly to human wellbeing, making conservation feel less abstract and much more urgent.

💼 Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

Idealist Jobs remains one of the most useful places to search for nonprofit and social-impact roles across regions, functions, and experience levels. It is especially handy because it mixes mission-driven jobs, remote openings, and organization profiles in one place, making it easier to spot both immediate roles and longer-term pathways.

🎧 Podcast to Check Out

The Tech Policy Press podcast is a strong listen right now for anyone thinking about democracy, AI, rights, labor, and the public interest. Their episodes tend to be smart without being jargon-heavy, which makes them especially useful for social impact leaders trying to track fast-moving tech issues.

🔗 LinkedIn Profile to Follow

Maria Zapata is a strong follow for anyone interested in social entrepreneurship, systems change, and scaling changemaking through networks. As ASPIRe Executive Director at Ashoka, she brings a global perspective on how social innovators can build agency, ecosystem collaboration, and impact at scale.