About the author
Dr Beth Breeze worked as a fundraiser and
charity manager before co-founding the Centre
for Philanthropy at the University of Kent, where
she now leads a team conducting research
and teaching courses on philanthropy and
fundraising. She has researched and written the
annual Coutts Million Pound Donor Report since
2008, co-authored Richer Lives: why rich people
give (with Theresa Lloyd), The Logic of Charity:
Great Expectations in Hard Times (with John
Mohan) and co-edited The Philanthropy Reader
(with Michael Moody). Her next book is The
New Fundraisers: who organises generosity in
contemporary society?
Beth has also written a wide range of research
reports on topics relevant to fundraisers
including ‘How Donors Choose Charities’, ‘User
Views of Fundraising’ (with Jon Dean) and
‘Rising to the challenge: A study of philanthropic
support for unpopular causes’ (with Alison
Body). These are all freely available at https://
www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/philanth...
publications/index.html
