Looking at the first page of my to do list, I can see why it is so overwhelming. Being in a nonprofit means that a director needs to be in charge of everything – similar but not the same as for profit functions – and one person probably doesn’t have all of those skills. For example, fundraising, legal and technology skills. I think fundraising was both my least favorite thing to do that I wasn’t particularly good at either. I felt a lot more comfortable with legal or technical questions. Or even HR or anything to do with people or operations, rather than fundraising.