The Arms Control Association is a United States–based nonpartisan membership organization founded in 1971, with the self-stated mission of "promoting public understanding of and support for effective arms control policies."
5-526: The group publishes the monthly magazine Arms Control Today . It contains topical news updates as well as extended, footnoted articles. Through its online content, print materials, and events, the Arms Control Association provides policymakers, media, and the interested public with information, analysis and commentary on arms control proposals, negotiations and agreements, and related national security issues. The Arms Control Association
10-932: Is supported by grants from the Ploughshares Fund , the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation , the Carnegie Corporation of New York , the Colombe Foundation, the New Land Foundation, the Prospect Hill Foundation, the Stewart R. Mott Foundation , and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation . As of 2018, its staff includes: In addition, there are two Fellows: The Association hosts 3–4 interns during
15-494: 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. 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
20-575: The spring, summer, and fall academic semesters, as well as a Scoville Fellow when selected as the host organization. Ploughshares Fund 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. Ploughshares Fund is a 501(c)(3) foundation that pools contributions from individuals, families and foundations. Ploughshares Fund enables individual contributors to pool resources and provide support for initiatives to prevent
25-743: The world. Lilienthal died in October 2006, at the age of 87, while still serving as Ploughshares Fund's president. 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 . Cirincione stepped down as president in July 2020 and was succeeded by Dr. Emma Belcher, formerly of the MacArthur Foundation . Ploughshares Fund's grantmaking
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