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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 ...
Joseph Cirincione (/ ˌ s ɪr ɪ n s i ˈ oʊ n i /, [1] SIR-in-see-OWN-ee (born November 13, 1949) is a national security analyst and author. He served as the president of the Ploughshares Fund, a public grant-making foundation focused on nuclear nonproliferation and conflict resolution.
The Ploughshares Fund continues to provide grants to individuals and organizations advocating against nuclear weapons. Lilienthal also served as national vice chairwoman of Amnesty International in 1977. Lilienthal was also an artist and art advocate who served on the board of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for most of the 1970s.
Ernie Regehr, OC is a Canadian peace researcher and expert in security and disarmament. [1] He co-founded Project Ploughshares, a peace research organization based in Waterloo, Ontario, with Murray Thomson in 1976 [2] and served as its Executive Director for thirty years. [3]
Aslan also serves on the board of directors of the Ploughshares Fund, which gives grants for peace and security issues, PEN Center USA, a writer's advocacy group, and he serves on the national advisory board of The Markaz (formerly the Levantine Cultural Center), a program to promote peace between Americans and the Arab/Muslim world. [16]
Leland H. Hartwell, biologist, former president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Virginia G. Piper Chair of Personalized Medicine and co-director of the Biodesign Institute's Center for Sustainable Health at Arizona State University, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2001 [280]
In 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there were two resignations in protest at the institute's dovish response to the conflict: non-resident fellow Joseph Cirincione of Ploughshares Fund, who had raised money for Quincy, and board member Paul Eaton, a retired senior Army major officer and adviser to Democratic politicians and ...
Perry currently sits on the board of directors for Xyleco. [49] Perry joined the financial board of the Thailand-based manufacturing company, Fabrinet in 2008. He was a board member of Theranos, a Silicon Valley biotech company which defrauded more than $700 million from its investors before it collapsed. [50] [51]