Grantee Profile:
Partnership for Global Security
Programs aimed at preventing terrorist access to nuclear materials continue to struggle for funding and and attention, despite the risk. Ken Luongo of the Partnership for Global Security (PGS) provides invaluable budget and program analysis to civil society to strengthen these initiatives. Through its "Next Generation Nonproliferation" project, PGS is also looking ahead to the proliferation challenges of the coming decades in order to design appropriate and effective responses.
Recent Grants
Grantee: Harvard University / Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
To support a series of analyses and multiple policy briefings for key decisionmakers to identify and promote the highest priority steps to reduce the probability that terrorists could acquire and use nuclear weapons
Grant: $50,000
Grantee: Woodrow Wilson Center
To provide support to public policy scholar Hadi Semati for his ongoing research on the reform movement in Iran, as well as his public speaking, media interviews and participation in Track II meetings.
Grant: $40,000
Grantee: Harvard University / Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
To support ongoing dialogue between North Korean officials and members of Congress and their staffs to address the issue of implementing the U.S.-DPRK agreement.
Grant: $50,000
Ploughshares Fund Grants
Ploughshares Fund makes grants to support initiatives aimed at preventing the spread and use of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and other weapons of war, and to prevent conflicts that could lead to the use of weapons of mass destruction.Problems of this magnitude demand multiple solutions. With the more than $4 million contributed annually by individuals all over the country, Ploughshares Fund invests in a wide range of innovative and practical programs, from scientific research to media, to behind-the-scenes dialogue, to grassroots organizing and even lobbying. Ploughshares receives hundreds of proposals every year, only a fraction of which can be funded.(In 2006-2007 we made 121 grants totaling $4.4 million.) After research and with the counsel of advisors, Ploughshares' staff makes funding recommendations based upon these strategic principles: Can the project affect policy? Can it reach policymakers and the public with the information they need to make wise decisions about weapons and global security?
Beyond those criteria, we place very few restrictions on our grantmaking. We give whenever and wherever our grants can have the greatest impact – last year alone our grants went to ten countries around the world. And unlike most foundations, we fund individuals as well as organizations.