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The Centre for Philanthropy has individual and institutional capacities for pro-social, compassionate and caring behaviours as its primary concern.

The centre is dedicated to understanding the social processes and cultural experiences by which people acquire moral dispositions to care for the needs of others. We conduct research into the ways in which our capacity for fellow feeling is socially cultivated, corporately structured, politically mediated, and economically expressed. We are committed to understanding the contributions of philanthropy, charity and humanitarianism to the development of humane forms of society.

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Graduating and wondering about your next move?

Come along and find out about the exciting and varied postgraduate programmes offered by the School. Dr Vince Miller and Professor Chris Shilling, Directors of Graduate Studies will present a talk on the wide range of taught and research programmes available at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research. You will also hear about Kent's competitive tuition fees, loyalty discounts for current students and alumni as well as potential sources of ...
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 magazine, Beth outlined the findings of her research. While the corporate philanthropy world has moved on from the days of 'chairman's choice', company staff are still not central to decisions around charity partnerships. The article, entitled Staff choice in charity partnerships can be tokenistic, can be found o...
Who Gives, Who Gets?

Voluntary Sector Studies Network (VSSN) day conference, 15 May 2013 Dr Beth Breeze and Dr Eddy Hogg, Centre for Philanthropy, present a paper at this event exploring the suggestion that philanthropy often simply results in the recycling of resources within socio-economic groups. Through a short survey of charity chief executives and case studies of three UK charities and donors, the socio-economic characteristics of clients and donors is examined. Do donors support charities which help people...
Kent launches major new study of successful fundraising

Despite the importance and urgency of fundraising, which generates billions of pounds of voluntary income for charities each year, we know little about the non-technical aspects of the job of asking for money. Using a mixed methods approach involving fundraisers and major donors, Dr Beth Breeze, Director of The Centre for Philanthropy, will research and explore how the personal and social skills of both volunteer and paid fundraisers interact with their prof...
Criminal justice student volunteer helps rehabilitate Medway offenders

A University criminal justice student has been supporting the rehabilitation of offenders back into the Medway community as a volunteer with Kent Probation Service. Andrea Rae, who is in the final year of her BA Criminal Justice Studies at the University's Medway campus, has spent the last ten months volunteering as a mentor to offenders needing resettlement. As well clocking up some 281 hours of volunteering for the Kent P...
Progressive governance – Dr Steven Roberts presents evidence

Dr Steven Roberts, Lecturer in Social Policy and Sociology in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research gave written evidence in the form of a circulated memo at a major transatlantic gathering. Organised by Policy Network and Global Progress and hosted by Danish prime minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, many centre left party leaders were in attendance including Ed Miliband (UK), Martin OMalley (US), Diede...
New book analysing the welfare state debate

Peter Taylor-Gooby's new book, The Double Crisis of the Welfare State and What We Can Do about It, deals with the welfare state debate. The NHS, education, social care, local government, employment services, social housing and benefits for the poor all face major challenges from a government determined to entrench a radical and divisive liberalism permanently in British public life. This book analyses the immediate challenge from headlong cuts that bear mo...

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