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