Ploughshares Fund Grant

The Ploughshares Fund provides grants to organizations and individuals working towards a nuclear weapons-free world. They prioritize funding for initiatives that eliminate nuclear threats, foster community resilience, and build partnerships with social justice movements. Their unique approach allows for minimal restrictions on grantmaking, including support for direct lobbying and individual applicants. This commitment aims to create transformational change in nuclear policy and practices that challenge the status quo.

What We Fund
Ploughshares supports organizations and individuals working to build a safe, secure, nuclear weapons-free world.
By funding organizations and people who drive policies and activities that help eliminate nuclear threats or address regional conflicts, create a stronger and more resilient nuclear field, build new partnerships with intersecting issues, and support transformational thinking and activities.
Funding Priorities
In line with Ploughshares’s organizational goals and priorities, our 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 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.
Please see FAQs for additional guidelines.

Eligibility

Ploughshares Fund 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.

Ineligibility

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.