Deadline: 03-Sep-21
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.
Funding Priorities
- Promote the Reduction and Eventual Elimination of Nuclear Weapons: They are building a 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
- 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 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.
For more information, visit https://www.ploughshares.org/what-we-fund/applying-grant