New dev director seeking help/ advice
I am about three months in to a new role as a dev director at a large statewide health and human services organization. I have worked in development roles at larger national nonprofits and smaller local nonprofits. This organization has been around for over 30 years providing mostly waiver based services to vulnerable populations but has no history of philanthropic culture or development work. I have been working on setting up a CRM but most of our 2k contacts are former employees and or clients. I’m working to overhaul our outreach (social media, newsletter, community engagement events) but stumped on how to build up a base of support. I’m asking regional directors to send me monthly outreach leads for follow up and attending networking events locally but still feeling like I’m underperforming. I’m applying to grants to try and get our numbers up but without a base of support I’m lost on what to do and feel everyday that I’m failing and not doing enough. I’m honestly about to start looking for a new position with less stress. any advice? I also feel like I’m not doing enough day to day as I don’t have a lot of set task I need to do, everything is more on build mode. I feel like I’m starting to crack under pressure. Any help or advice would be appreciated.