Beth Breeze

Beth worked as a fundraiser and charity manager for a decade before co-founding the Centre for Philanthropy at the University of Kent (UK) in 2008 where she now leads a team conducting research and teaching courses on philanthropy and fundraising, including an innovative MA Philanthropic Studies taught by distance learning. She researched and wrote the annual Coutts Million Pound Donor Report from 2008-2017, co-authored Richer Lives: why rich people give (2013), The Logic of Charity: Great Expectations in Hard Times (2015) and co-edited The Philanthropy Reader (2016). Her last two books The New Fundraisers (2017) and In Defence of Philanthropy (2021) have both won the AFP Skystone Research Partners book prize. Her new book, Advising Donors: Principles and Practice, is published in February 2023.