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Ploughshares supports organizations and individuals working to build a safe, secure, nuclear weapons-free world.

What we fund:

• Near-Term Steps
  Drive policies and activities that help eliminate nuclear threats or address regional conflicts. 
  This portfolio supports essential near-term steps to counter nuclear policy regression, advance arms control and diplomacy, and resolve nuclear-related regional conflicts.
• Strengthened Community
  Create a stronger, more resilient nuclear field.
  This portfolio supports core organizations in the nuclear field and targeted projects that aim for a more dynamic, inclusive, and effective community.
• Shared Purpose
  Build new partnerships with intersecting issues.
  This portfolio develops a broad power base by aligning with social justice movements and exploring intersections between nuclear topics and other issues.
• Bold Futures
  Support transformational thinking and activities.
  This portfolio creates favorable terrain for long-term policy change by investing in transformational approaches that fundamentally challenge the nuclear status quo.

Ploughshares is unique in that we place very few restrictions on our grantmaking:

• There are no geographical limitations on our grants.
• We are able to fund direct lobbying programs.
• We make grants to individuals.
• We encourage women and people from diverse communities to apply.

Please note that we do not fund the production of films, videos, books, art projects, provide scholarships or the research and writing of academic dissertations.

Before you apply for a grant, please connect with us to answer any questions you might have and to make your application process easier. Please contact Kaite Lower at klower@ploughshares.org to arrange a meeting.

Deadline: 31 March 2025.

Full details here: https://ploughshares.org/grants/apply/