$148,734
2022 • 2 years • Nuclear Challenges
Founded in 1981, the Ploughshares Fund is a public grantmaking foundation dedicated exclusively to eliminating the threat posed by nuclear weapons. This award renews support for a nuclear field coordinator position to follow grantee activities and priorities and facilitate a small subset of nuclear funders in coordinating grantmaking across their portfolios, where appropriate. Outcomes include a more coordinated approach to supporting the nuclear policy field.
$500,000
2021 • 1 year • Nuclear Challenges
Founded in 1981, the Ploughshares Fund (Ploughshares) is a public grantmaking foundation dedicated exclusively to eliminating the threat posed by nuclear weapons. This award supports Ploughshares' effort to expand the nuclear field through prospecting new partners and engaging with emerging experts through a request for proposals. Outcomes include a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable nuclear field.
$60,000
2020 • 1 year 6 months • Nuclear Challenges
Founded in 1981, the Ploughshares Fund is a public grantmaking foundation dedicated exclusively to eliminating the threat posed by nuclear weapons. This award renews support for a nuclear field coordinator position to follow grantee activities and priorities and facilitate a small subset of nuclear funders in coordinating grantmaking across their portfolios, where appropriate. Outcomes include a more coordinated approach to supporting the nuclear policy field.
$400,000
2019 • 2 years • Nuclear Challenges
Founded in 1981, the Ploughshares Fund (Ploughshares) is an operating foundation dedicated exclusively to eliminating the threat posed by nuclear weapons. This project supports Ploughshares through its grantmaking, convening, and coordinating capacities in its efforts to reset U.S. nuclear policies and build a consensus around them that reflects a range of viewpoints. It aims to develop an alternative to current nuclear policy plans that it can offer to policymakers for implementation.
$80,000
2018 • 2 years • Nuclear Challenges
Founded in 1981, the Ploughshares Fund is a public grantmaking foundation dedicated exclusively to eliminating the threat posed by nuclear weapons. This award supports the creation of a nuclear field coordinator position to facilitate a small subset of nuclear funders in coordinating grantmaking across their portfolios, where appropriate. Outcomes include a more coordinated approach to supporting the nuclear policy field.
$1,000,000
2016 • 2 years • Nuclear Challenges
Ploughshares Fund is a global security foundation that works to reduce nuclear arsenals and prevent their spread. N Square, an initiative of the Ploughshares Fund (PF), was established in 2013 with MacArthur support, along with the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Hewlett Foundation, and Skoll Global Threats Fund. N Square aims to spur creativity in, and reinvigorate debate about, nuclear issues. This award allows N Square to expand its operations and implement some of the most promising ideas that emerged from its pilot phase. It focuses on building a multidisciplinary network of influencers to seed innovative ideas for the field, and generate new interest in nuclear issues among the concerned public.
$400,000
2013 • 2 years
Ploughshares Fund works to reduce nuclear risks by promoting arsenal reductions and nonproliferation. Through this award, Ploughshares launches a funder collaborative to bring new ideas, additional actors and broader public engagement to the nuclear field the Innovation Fund Collaborative on Nuclear Security (IFC). Proposed partners include Carnegie Corporation, the Hewlett Foundation, Skoll Global Threats, and MacArthur. The IFC is designed as a risk-tolerant, venture capital approach to spark new thinking and to support atypical participants and fresh approaches to reducing the threat from nuclear weapons.
$50,000
2009 • 2 years
In support of the Peace and Security Funders Group (over two years).
$75,000
2006 • 3 years
In support of the Peace and Security Funders Group (over three years).
$50,000
2004 • 2 years
In support of the Peace and Security Funders Group (over two years).
$50,000
2002 • 2 years
To support the Peace and Security Funders Group (over two years).