Deadline: 31-Aug-22
Applications are now open for the Ploughshares Fund to support organizations and individuals working to build a safe, secure, nuclear weapons-free world.
Ploughshares Fund is committed to ensuring the grantmaking contributes to a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive nuclear field. As part of this commitment, they have updated all of the applications for funding to include a new set of questions related to gender inclusion based on the values that underpin the work.
These discretionary grants are used to support time urgent projects related to their highest priority funding areas, and projects must have a high likelihood of achieving short-term policy impact.
Priorities
- Promote the Reduction and Eventual Elimination of Nuclear Weapons: They ar building the common understanding among world leaders that nuclear weapons are unacceptable. They help leaders take concrete steps to reduce current arsenals and limit future ones, all to achieve a planet where nuclear weapons can never be used again.
- Prevent the Emergence of New Nuclear States: Iran and North Korea have been the biggest threats to containing nuclear weapons. The lasting solution will not be a military one. Diplomacy and engagement—always grounded in data and strategic analysis—can solve these problems. It takes hard work and intelligence, both of which require funding.
- Build Regional Peace and Security: Longstanding and unresolved tensions between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan make South Asia one of the most dangerous places on earth. The partners work to transform the region with fact-finding missions, on-the-ground analysis, high-level dialogue, confidence-building measures, and more.
Funding Information
In between the three annual board meetings, Ploughshares Fund staff have the ability to make discretionary grants up to $25,000.
Restrictions
Ploughshares Fund is unique in that they place very few restrictions on the grantmaking:
- There are no geographical limitations on grants.
- They are able to fund direct lobbying programs.
- They make grants to individuals.
- They encourage women and people from diverse communities to apply.
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