Ploughshares Fund Grants $165,000
to Support BASIC Programs
BASIC Press Release
Thursday, 3 January 2008 - IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Ploughshares Fund has awarded the British American Security
Information Council $165,000 to support BASIC's agenda of
nuclear nonproliferation and transatlantic security. Ploughshares
is the largest grant-making foundation in the United States
focusing exclusively on peace and security issues.
BASIC will use the funds to strengthen its impact in pursuing
a more multilateral security agenda, and driving policies
that bring us closer to the goal of a nuclear weapon free
world. BASIC, with offices in Washington, DC and London, brings
new thinking into the mainstream through its program of research,
media outreach and policy advocacy, in both the United States
and Europe.
In accepting the grant, BASIC Council Chair Trevor McCrisken
noted Ploughshares' support has enabled BASIC to reinvigorate
and expand its program in the United States and Europe, and
to attract new patrons and participants. The high level discussions
on disarmament and non-proliferation which BASIC arranged
for US Ambassador Max Kampelman in London this past June,
for example, were only possible with the support of Ploughshares.
Ploughshares' support has been central to all BASIC's recent
achievements, which have included policy breakthroughs in
UK government support for arms exports, fostering creative
thinking about Iran's nuclear program, and expanding the transatlantic
dialogue on reducing and ultimately eliminating nuclear arms.
BASIC will use the Ploughshares grant to further stimulate
new thinking on the practical means to achieve the vision
of a world free of nuclear arms through its recently launched
"Getting
to Zero" project.
The Ploughshares Fund was founded in 1982 by San Francisco
philanthropist and activist Sally Lilienthal. Her ability
to draw people in and motivate them to act fueled the organization's
early growth. Naila Bolus joined Ploughshares in 1997 as executive
director and has overseen the expansion of the Fund's grant-making
capacity and its role as a convenor of the peace and security
community as a whole. Active as president of the Board of
Directors until the end, Sally Lilienthal died in 2006, just
as Ploughshares prepared to commemorate its twenty-fifth anniversary
and the awarding of its fifty millionth dollar in grants.
The website of the Ploughshares Fund may be found at: www.ploughshares.org.
For further information please contact:
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In
the United States:
Steven Monblatt, Co-Executive Director
+1 (202) 546-8055
smonblatt at basicint.org
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In
the United Kingdom:
Paul Ingram, Co-Executive Director
+44 (0)20 7324-4680
pingram at basicint.org |
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