Funding of up to $25,000 available to support Organizations and Individuals

Donor Name: Ploughshares Fund

Country: Global

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline: 08/18/2023

Size of the Grant: up to $25,000

Details:

Areas

In line with Ploughshares Fund’s organizational goals and priorities, the grantmaking and programmatic activities are focused on the following areas:

• Near-term Steps: Drive policies and activities that help eliminate nuclear threats or address regional conflicts.
  • This category will fund projects that support necessary near-term steps to: address the nuclear implications of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine (in particular, preventing the war from entrenching a narrative that nuclear weapons keep everyone safe); reverse modernization trends (with an emphasis on the cancellation/retiring of unnecessary and expensive weapons systems, like the B-83 bomb or the proposed Sea-Launched-Cruise Missile); advance arms control and diplomacy (in particular, maintaining the political space for future arms control efforts between the United States, Russia, and other nuclear states, when appropriate); and resolve related regional conflicts. In some cases, projects may focus on specific policy steps essential to long-term change.
• Strengthened Community: Create a stronger, more resilient nuclear field.
  • Advances in nuclear policy require sustained and focused attention from the community and the public to create the pressure and options to reduce and eliminate nuclear threats and build a more peaceful world. This area of funding will support the core organizations and individuals that the nuclear field needs to make a policy and cultural impact in both the short and long terms. It will also include targeted interventions—such as fellowships, diversity and leadership initiatives, and training in forecasting and systems thinking—that will help increase the nuclear field’s capacity and allow it to thrive.
• Shared Purpose: Build new partnerships with intersecting issues.
  • To make nuclear weapons politically and culturally noteworthy and at the forefront of public consciousness, they must build active partnerships across issue areas. The goal of this funding area is to develop a power base and generate public pressure for policy change by aligning with other social justice movements and calling attention to the interlinkages between their issues and nuclear topics.
• Bold Futures: Support transformational thinking and activities.
  • There is an urgent need for transformational thinking and activities in the nuclear arms control and policy community. For years, the field has been stuck in status quo thinking that focuses exclusively on immediate policy challenges and ignores the need for long-term planning. While a focus on incremental policy disputes is sometimes necessary, occasional successes have not prevented an overall regression in nuclear weapons policy. In essence, the community is winning some battles but losing the war. Weapons spending is up, and hawkish policies are dominant.

Funding Information

• In between the three annual board meetings, Ploughshares Fund staff have the ability to make discretionary grants up to $25,000. These discretionary grants are used to support time urgent projects related to the highest priority funding areas, and projects must have a high likelihood of achieving short-term policy impact.

Criteria

• Ploughshares Fund is unique in that they place very few restrictions on the grantmaking:
  • There are no geographical limitations on the grants.
  • They are able to fund direct lobbying programs.
  • They make grants to individuals.
  • They encourage women and people from diverse communities to apply.
• Please note that they do not fund the production of films, videos, books, art projects, provide scholarships or the research and writing of academic dissertations.
• You will need to register two different accounts with two unique email addresses for each sister organization.

For more information, visit Ploughshares Fund.