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For many years, there were too many barriers to building a career in social impact. Your ability to advance was limited by where you lived and who you knew. Technology, remote work, and social networks changed all of that — for the better.
While access to networking improved, the ability to form authentic connections did not. More people received transactional, cold emails, and responses became rarer.
We’ve worked with thousands of candidates to rethink how we network — and distilled our lessons into a simple networking cheat sheet below.
But first, a note of gratitude and some exciting new job openings before the newsletter is on a break next week:
🫶 What we’re grateful for:
Community building: 71 matchmakers that referred 322 talented friends this year to help them find their next job in social impact
Shifting team culture: 2,900 people reading dear progressive movement: we need to stop treating strong culture like an afterthought
Creating connections: Brokering 10,050+ introductions between candidates and employers in the All Hands talent matchmaking program
🔥 5 hot jobs we're excited about:
🤝 How we coach people to network authentically:
We created a simple formula below that you can use to draft networking asks that get responses.
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