{"id":1723,"date":"2013-10-09T07:47:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T07:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:15:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:15:03","slug":"philanthropists-feel-enriched-by-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2013\/10\/09\/philanthropists-feel-enriched-by-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"Philanthropists feel enriched by giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most rich people who donate to philanthropic causes say it enriches their lives despite leaving them worse off, according to a new book co-written by Dr Beth Breeze.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Breeze, Director of the University&#8217;s <a title=\"Centre for Philanthropy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/cphsj\/index.html\">Centre for Philanthropy<\/a>, and co-author Theresa Lloyd, a philanthropy expert and founder director of Philanthropy UK, interviewed 40 established wealthy UK donors and 42 newly emerging givers for their book <i>Richer Lives: why rich people give<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Breeze said: \u201cAlthough philanthropic acts are motivated by a complex array of factors, one shared driver is that they enrich donors&#8217; lives in many ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among other key motivations were a belief in a cause as a result of personal experiences and the desire to be a catalyst for change and to make something good happen.<\/p>\n<p>Find out <a title=\"More findings on UK Fundraising's website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fundraising.co.uk\/news\/2013\/10\/05\/why-do-wealthy-donors-give-charity-new-book-039richer-lives039-explains\">more \u2026.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most rich people who donate to philanthropic causes say it enriches their lives despite leaving them worse off, according to a new book co-written by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2013\/10\/09\/philanthropists-feel-enriched-by-giving\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7098,"featured_media":1724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[124,139996],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1727,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions\/1727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}