Adrian Sargeant

Professor Sargeant is now the Executive Director of The Philanthropy Centre. The Philanthropy Centre provides fundraising training/education for charities and other nonprofits. It also provides bespoke research and consultancy for clients in the USA, Europe, UK and Australia. Adrian was formerly Professor of Fundraising at the Hartsook Centre for Sustainable Philanthropy (at Plymouth University) and the first Hartsook Chair in Fundraising at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Philanthropy at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia and Avila University, Kansas City, United States.

Professor Sargeant was the founding Managing Editor of the International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing. He has published over 100 peer reviewed academic articles, 10 books and made over 300 conference appearances in the past 20 years. The majority of this output has focused on the topic of fundraising.

Professor Sargeant has also acted as a consultant to numerous government bodies including the U.K’s Giving Campaign latterly authoring their ‘Future of Giving’ report, a blueprint for doubling giving. In 2004 Professor Sargeant pioneered the public information website www.charityfacts.org and in 2010 the student site www.studyfundraising.info.

Most recently Professor Sargeant has completed the design of a new suite of fundraising qualifications for the Institute of Fundraising in London.

In 2010 he was named to the Nonprofit Times' Top 50 Power and Influence list, identifying him as one of the leading proponents of fundraising in the United States. In the same year he was received the Civil Society Award for an Outstanding Contribution to Fundraising, the only academic ever to receive the honor. In 2016 he received a lifetime achievement award from the Institute of Fundraising.

Education

• Ph.D., University of Exeter, England
• Certificate in Education, University of Exeter
• M.B.A., Heriot-Watt University