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Formation | 1981 |
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Founder | Sally Lilienthal |
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President | Emma Belcher |
Chair | Terry Gamble Boyer |
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Ploughshares Fund is a public grantmaking foundation that supports initiatives to prevent the spread and use of nuclear weapons, and to prevent conflicts that could lead to their use. [1] Ploughshares Fund is a 501(c)(3) foundation that pools contributions from individuals, families and foundations. [2] Ploughshares Fund enables individual contributors to pool resources and provide support for initiatives [3] to prevent the spread and use of nuclear weapons. With over $100 million awarded in grants since its founding in 1981, Ploughshares Fund is the largest US philanthropic foundation focused exclusively on nuclear weapons. [4]
Concerned about the world's burgeoning nuclear arsenals, San Francisco philanthropist and activist Sally Lilienthal founded the organization in 1981. Since it was founded, Ploughshares has made grants totaling nearly $100 million to hundreds of people and organizations around the world. [4] [5] Lilienthal died in October 2006, at the age of 87, while still serving as Ploughshares Fund's president. [6]
In 2008, the Board of Directors appointed Joseph Cirincione as Ploughshares Fund's president, the same year that the organization opened an office in Washington, DC. [7] [8] Cirincione stepped down as president in July 2020 and was succeeded by Dr. Emma Belcher, formerly of the MacArthur Foundation. [9]
Ploughshares Fund's grantmaking is focused on the following issues: