The mission of the Skoll Global Threats Fund is to confront global threats imperiling humanity by seeking solutions, strengthening alliances, and spurring the actions needed to safeguard the future.
Skoll Global Threats Fund Grants
$750,000 in grants to J Street to support its efforts to elevate the voices of moderation and make them more visible to policy makers in the US to help work towards a negotiated, peaceful two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
A grant of $1 million to the Ploughshares Fund to support redirecting U.S. nuclear policy towards the elimination of all nuclear weapons and to build global support for a world completely free of nuclear weapons.
A grant of $800,000 to NTI’s Global Health and Security Initiative to create an international secretariat for CORDs, a coalition of regional networks that share best practices and training toward building a global system for disease surveillance.
A grant of £150,000 to Chatham House for research on what the April 2010 volcano ash cloud incident reveals about preparedness for responding to low probability, high consequence events, and the consequent implications for effectively tackling global threats.
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