Decisions, decisions: How donors decide which charities to support 1
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Beth Breeze
Beth Breeze is a researcher who specialises in philanthropy. She currently undertakes research within the ESRC Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy and recently co-founded the Centre for Philanthropy, Humanitarianism and Social Justice at the University of Kent.
She began her career as a fundraiser for a youth homelessness charity and has worked in a variety of fundraising, research and charity management roles.
Her doctoral thesis, due for completion in 2009, investigates the meaning and purpose of philanthropy in contemporary UK society.
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Analysis
It is not just major donors and new philanthropists who want to support effective charities, the prompts for giving are complex across the giving spectrum. Beth Breeze discusses the latest research on how donors select which charities to support.
The top end of philanthropy is showing signs of growth, as a new report has found the number of donations worth £1m or more is on the rise.
Major donors, trusts and companies made fewer £1m-plus donations in 2009/10 than in the previous four years on record, according to an annual tracking report released today.
Leaders in fundraising academia defended themselves against criticism that their research was inaccessible and irrelevant, in a heated panel discussion last week.
The British public has the capacity to give more, but there is no consensus as to whether and what tax incentives can encourage more philanthropy, it was evident at a meeting of sector representatives in Westminster yesterday.
An extra £100m has been allocated to frontline charitable activity by major philanthropists, according to this year’s Coutts Million Pound Donors report. Million-pound-plus donations have been largely resilient to the recession, according to the report. Some 189 donations of £1m or more were made in 2007/2008, just 6 per cent fewer than in the previous financial year.
Blogs
I could give at least three times more to charity than I do
Tags: Individual giving | Major donors
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News
Donors believe in helping the needy, but 'need' does not play into giving decisions
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While donors believe that charities exist primarily to help the needy, most donors tend to support organisations that promote their own preferences, help people they feel some affinity with and support causes that relate to their own life experiences according to research released today.