Beth Breeze
Beth Breeze is the Director of the Centre for Philanthropy at the University of Kent. She began her career working for a youth homelessness charity, and spent a decade working in fundraising and charity management. Over the past 15 years she has led numerous research studies focused on philanthropy, including interviews with over 100 ‘major donors’ who have made gifts worth $1 million or more.
Books by Beth Breeze
The Logic of Charity: Great Expectations in Hard Times
John Mohan and Beth Breeze
Interviews with Beth Breeze
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No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy
by Linsey McGoey -
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Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
by Edgar Villanueva -
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Giving to Help, Helping to Give: The Context and Politics of African Philanthropy
Tade Aina and Bhekinkosi Moyo (editors) -
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Madam C. J. Walker's Gospel of Giving: Black Women's Philanthropy during Jim Crow
by Tyrone McKinley Freeman -
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Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women's Movement, 1870-1967
by Joan Marie Johnson
The best books on Philanthropy, recommended by Beth Breeze
The best books on Philanthropy, recommended by Beth Breeze
Philanthropy is everywhere—and that means we need an informed debate about what it is and how to do it better, rather than resorting to populist critiques of donors and their motives, argues Beth Breeze, Director of the Centre for Philanthropy at the University of Kent. Here she recommends five books to help encourage a more careful and nuanced look at philanthropy, an activity that affects all of us every day but is particularly critical in the lives of the most vulnerable.
