The UK’s first dedicated university philanthropy teaching post is to be established at Kent following a £150,000 donation from the Pears Foundation. The post, to … Read more
Category: Philanthropy
UK philanthropy bouyant says research
Nearly three hundred UK donations of £1m or more, with a value of £1.36bn, were made to charitable causes or banked in foundations in 2013. … Read more
Times article on Philanthropy and paying tax
Philanthropy expert Beth Breeze says some super rich people prefer donating to paying tax in today’s Times newspaper article ‘Philanthropists give millions to charity, but … Read more
Coutts report finds philanthropy buoyant
The latest annual Coutts Million Pound Donor Report, produced in association with the University’s Centre for Philanthropy , concludes that philanthropy in the UK is buoyant. The … Read more
Corporate philanthropy on the shop floor
Dr Beth Breeze has released the results of a study into the perspectives of lower-ranking staff on company giving. In a news release in Fundraising … Read more
International Conference on Philanthropy
An international conference on social justice philanthropy was held in London on 1 March 2013. The conference brought together academics, policy-makers and practitioners, in order … Read more
Kent Centre for Philanthropy announces new prize
The Centre for Philanthropy has created a new dissertation prize open to third year undergraduate students at Canterbury and Medway. The Kent Centre for Philanthropy … Read more
New Kent philanthropy research in the Guardian
The Guardian has just published an article by Beth Breeze called ‘the shop floor perspective on corporate philanthropy’, describing her new philanthropy research. You can read the … Read more
The History of Philanthropy
Dr Beth Breeze appears in a new 3-part BBC Radio 4 series on the history of philanthropy, which will be broadcast at 8pm on the … Read more