Unincorporated association of funders that support anti-war and environmentalist causes
A project of the Ploughshares Fund, the Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG) is an unincorporated association of individual philanthropists, private foundations, public foundations, operating foundations, charitable trusts, and other grantmaking programs that give money to leftist anti-war and environmentalist causes. Established in 1999, PSFG's goal is to rid the world of all nuclear weapons and many conventional weapons. It also seeks to limit weapons testing, which it deems harmful to both the environment and human health. In PSFG's estimation, the U.S. government spends far too much money on military projects and ventures, and conversely, far too little on social welfare programs.
PSFG members target their funding toward organizations that seek to address the "root causes" of war and violence -- causes which PSFG identifies as: competition for natural resources, ethnic and religious differences, poverty, and social injustices. Much support is also earmarked for groups that work to promote conflict-resolution on both a small scale (in families and communities) and a large scale (between nations); groups that oppose the Patriot Act and the general "overreach of intelligence agencies"; groups that oppose the development of a missile defense system, weapons in space, and weapons of mass destruction; and groups that seek to limit or ban conventional weapons, small arms, and landmines as well.
