For over 38 years Ploughshares Fund has supported the most effective people and organizations in the world to reduce and ultimately eliminate the dangers posed by nuclear weapons.
Today we announce the planned retirement of Ploughshares Fund president and longtime national security expert, Joseph Cirincione. The Ploughshares Fund board of directors is actively engaged in a search to select the global security foundation's next president, with an appointment scheduled to...
Listen and subscribe to Press the Button, a weekly podcast from Ploughshares Fund dedicated to nuclear policy and national security. An engaging and dynamic look at one of the most critical issues of our time, Press the Button offers the latest news, insider interviews and in-...
Rahna Epting is the executive director of MoveOn, which works to advance progressive policies and social change. Over the past 20 years, MoveOn members have been part of game-changing victories that have prioritized peace and diplomacy over war, including recently organizing national rapid-...
President Trump has swung from calling the coronavirus pandemic “totally under control” to a “national emergency” and back. Trump’s latest idea that the nation could be “...
If there was one thing Liz Watson emphasized, it was the need for urgency. “We need ventilators. We need masks. We need personal protective equipment,” she said. Without these basic necessities, the US runs the risk of a healthcare worker shortage as those on the front lines fall prey to the...
In light of the increasingly dire situation in Iran as the country combats the COVID-19 pandemic, over 40 organizations – including NIAC Action, J Street, Truman National Security Project, MoveOn, Win Without War, and Ploughshares Fund – sent a letter calling on President Trump, Sec. Mnuchin,...
The year was 1999, and Gretchen Hund, a scientist then working for Batelle Memorial Institute had walked into a radioactive ghost town. “It was almost Twilight Zone-ish,” she said. “You have this big boulevard with all these apartment buildings on each side with huge vines growing through the...
Staying engaged is important because getting staying informed and taking sustained action will take time to have an effect. Here are a few ideas to stay engaged while preventing nuclear war. Share with your friends. Preventing nuclear war will require persistent effort from many people, until...
The discussion began, as it often does, with the budget. Caroline Dorminey and Corey Greer joined Ploughshares Fund to talk about their efforts to shift the conversation on national security. Dorminey and Greer are with Women’s Action for a New Direction (WAND), an advocacy organization aimed at...
Cynda Collins Arsenault is the founder of Our Secure Future: Women Make the Difference, which is part of the operation foundation, One Earth Future. She is co-founder, Board Chair and President of Secure World Foundation, and co-founder and member of the boards of the Arsenault Family...
Over the past three years, Ploughshares Fund has significantly expanded our investments in grassroots organizations. Grantees include influential national organizations as well as local groups focused on nuclear issues. Grassroots work by Ploughshares Fund grantees (including MoveOn.org,...
The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (Quincy Institute) is an action-oriented think tank whose goal is to lay the foundation for a new foreign policy centered on diplomatic engagement and military restraint. Its founders, which include former NIAC President Trita Parsi, believe the...
Coming to Ploughshares Fund last September, I underestimated just how tumultuous the ensuing months would be. Surely, nothing could be more raucous than my time at the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 election cycle. Yet I quickly realized that was not to be the case. My first week...
It started with an invitation to lunch. Ambassador Hamamoto had only just arrived in Switzerland as the United States’ representative to the United Nations in Geneva. She was still feeling out her new role when Kofi Annan, former UN secretary-general, asked to chat over a meal. “And I’ll never...
The Ploughshares Fund Women’s Initiative aims to invite and position women firmly at the peace and security table and to ensure their ability to craft and influence US nuclear policy and national security. With $1 million our grantmaking and programmatic activities will equip more women, both...
