Among the people and initiatives that have been fortified with early funding from Ploughshares Fund are:
- Entrepreneurial programs to prevent nuclear terrorism by locking down and removing vulnerable nuclear materials in the former Soviet Union and elsewhere;
- Public campaigns to compel governments to oppose the development of a new generation of “usable” nuclear weapons and to take their nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert;
- Programs to reorient Russian nuclear weapons facilities and scientists to productive, economically viable endeavors, including the establishment of non-proliferation centers at former nuclear weapons labs;
- A network of civil society organizations that are monitoring governments’ adherence to the biological weapons treaty, in the absence of any official verification regime;
- Unprecedented collaborations between Muslim, Jewish and Christian leaders to address nuclear weapons and other security threats.
- The International Campaign to Ban Landmines, whose efforts led to a global treaty to abolish anti-personnel landmines in record time, and the Nobel Peace Prize;
