Keeping Sane in Troubled Times + Great Opps, PCDN Weekly Newsletter, Feb. 24, 2025

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We’ve got three PCDN events this week to help impact professionals whether you’ve been impacted by the insane new US Policies and devastating cuts or just looking for new resources.


For our Career Campus Members and Digest Subscribers (you will have access to office hours at no charge through end of March) we have Open Office Hours this week at noon est. This is our regular career support session where we engage with our community and do everything from resume reviews, strategize about next steps, give tips about breaking into new sectors and much more. It is Awesome.

To participate join our Career Campus or subscribe to our new Career Daily Digest.

Second we will be hosting a terrific livestream on Tuesday on LinkedIn (open to all)  on Development Sector Breakdowns, Stress, & You: Actions for Wellbeing with leading innovator Siddharth Shah, M.D.

The development sector is under attack. Funding cuts, job losses, and growing hostility toward aid work are creating intense stress. Many professionals face career uncertainty, financial strain, and challenges to their professional identity.

How can you protect your well-being in such an environment?

Join Dr. Craig Zelizer and Siddharth Ashvin Shah, MD, MPH for a live-streamed conversation on February 25 at 12 PM EST. Dr. Shah, a physician and public health scientist, has spent his career helping changemakers navigate high-stress environments.

No easy answers, but science-backed strategies that can help if you are:

  • Searching for your next job

  • Dealing with the stress of uncertain finances

  • Facing attacks on your professional identity

  • Supporting others in the sector

Feel free to join us and share widely

Third for our Social Change Career Podcast this week we will be recording (it will not be live-streamed) a session with Boardy.ai. This will be our first AI guest and Boardy is amazing, facilitating purpose driven networking. See more here

Got questions you would like us to consider asking? Post them here

Also check out and try Boardy.ai and be amazed. It isn’t perfect of course but one of the coolest uses of AI for human connecting we’ve seen.

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Social Impact News & Resources

😄 Joke of the Day

Why did the carbon footprint break up with the sustainability plan?
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News

📌 To Grad or Not to Grad?
Deciding whether to pursue grad school for social impact? Weigh the pros, cons, and alternative paths in our latest post.

📌 How to Survive the Broligarchy
What happens when elites consolidate power under the guise of meritocracy? This piece unpacks the dynamics of modern power structures and their consequences.

📌 Doge is the Theranos of Cost-Cutting
Paul Krugman breaks down why some cost-cutting strategies are more fiction than function—and what that means for economics.

📌 Randy Borman (1955-2025): An Unlikely Guardian of the Amazon
The remarkable story of Randy Borman, a key advocate for Indigenous-led conservation in the Amazon.

Organization to Watch

🌱 80,000 Hours – A career guide focused on maximizing impact. Their job board highlights high-leverage opportunities for social change.

LinkedIn Profile to Follow

🔗 Tim Steppich – Founder of Inclimate, one of the world’s best resources for climate careers, helping professionals transition into high-impact climate jobs.