Governance

The mandate of Project Ploughshares comes from The Canadian Council of Churches, which delegates the responsibility of board formation and governance to its member churches and associated churches that have agreed to sponsor Project Ploughshares. The Canadian Council of Churches is the legal entity under which Project Ploughshares operates and, as such, the board of Project Ploughshares is accountable to The Canadian Council of Churches for governing Project Ploughshares in the pursuit of the mandate received from the council. The board of Project Ploughshares is made up of persons appointed by the sponsoring churches and members-at-large appointed by the board.

Sponsoring Churches

The Anglican Church of Canada
Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace
Canadian Unitarian Council
Canadian Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
Christian Reformed Church in North America
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
Mennonite Central Committee Canada
The Presbyterian Church in Canada
The United Church of Canada

Project Ploughshares has since its founding in 1976 been affiliated with the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies at Conrad Grebel University College, a Mennonite church college on the University of Waterloo campus.

Board of Directors

Scott Beech, Treasurer, Member-at-large
Linda Bowron, Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace
Jim Caughran, Canadian Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
Lawrence Cumming, The United Church of Canada
Donna Fitzpatrick-Lewis, The Presbyterian Church in Canada
Nathan Funk, Member-at-large
Debbie Grisdale, The Anglican Church of Canada
Scott Kline, Member-at-large
Jeanette Liberty-Duns, The United Church of Canada
Rev. Lowell Nussey, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
Colin Read, Canadian Unitarian Council
Steve van de Hoef, Christian Reformed Church in North America
Jennifer Wiebe, Mennonite Central Committee Canada

Financial support

Project Ploughshares relies on the annual financial support of thousands of individuals, national churches, religious orders, local congregations and organizations across Canada. Our annual income in 2010 was approximately $1.4-million. The source of funds breaks down as follows: donations 45 per cent; grants 53.5 per cent; other 1.5 per cent.