Media Inquiries: Delfin Vigil | Director of Communications & Marketing | dvigil@ploughshares.org [1]; (415) 259-1247.
Over $50,000 awarded to six grantees addressing nuclear challenges and working to diversify the nuclear and national security fields
SAN FRANCISCO, CA & WASHINGTON, DC – The global security foundation Ploughshares Fund is proud to announce the award of six grants following its recent Women’s Initiative request for proposals, held this spring. These grants were made possible by gifts dedicated to the Ploughshares Fund Women’s Initiative. Through the Women’s Initiative, Ploughshares Fund aims to invest in, amplify and expand the range of perspectives addressing our world’s greatest nuclear challenges.
These six grants contribute to building more just and inclusive national security and foreign policies related to current nuclear weapons issues. Each project is actively working to bring in a diversity of voices to the nuclear policy and national security fields – including women legislators, students as well as communities affected by nuclear weapons production and testing. The project leads are all emerging leaders receiving their first grants from Ploughshares Fund.
Together with The Prospect Hill Foundation, Ploughshares Fund received and reviewed over 40 applications for the Women’s Initiative request for proposals. The final grant award list is as follows:
Ploughshares Fund is extremely grateful to The Prospect Hill Foundation for its partnership and support of these grants and the Ploughshares Fund Women’s Initiative.
For media inquiries, including interview opportunities: Director of Communications & Marketing Delfin Vigil: dvigil@ploughshares.org [1]; (415) 259-1247.
Ploughshares Fund is a global security foundation based in San Francisco, with an office in Washington, DC. Founded in 1981, Ploughshares Fund supports initiatives to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons. It is the largest US philanthropic organization focused exclusively on nuclear security. Visit ploughshares.org
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