Journal of Donor Relations & Stewardship: Book 3: Structure

With Structure, we step off from the first two volumes to consider how we build our work from our definitions and how we organize our work to be in a position to determine whether what we do is effective. The assembled articles address two different definitions of structure. First, as a verb, meaning to construct or arrange according to a plan. Second, as a noun, describing the arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex. Although we have attempted to capture the thinking of our colleagues about structure according to both definitions and across a range of organizations, we know that for almost every organization and office of donor relations and stewardship there is an atomic order, molecules of activity that respond to the cosmos in which they function.