Project Ploughshares

What Project Ploughshares does

Project Ploughshares, operating legally as Ploughshares Calgary Society, is a registered non-profit society in Alberta, Canada, dedicated to building a culture of peace through education, advocacy, and social justice. The organization pursues a mission of a world free of war, militarism, and nuclear threats, and promotes mutual respect, non-violence, peaceful conflict resolution, and human security. Its programmatic focus areas, as stated on its website, are human security and nonviolent conflict resolution, Canadian foreign and defense policies, nuclear disarmament, control of conventional arms, militarism, and specific wars and interventions.

The organization delivers its mission through a portfolio of interconnected programs rather than a single product or platform. These include peace education sessions, advocacy focus areas (nuclear weapons, antimilitarism, nonviolence, conflict resolution), educational resources for educators and parents, a recurring newsletter publication, and standing community committees such as Educators for Peace & Justice and the Calgary Floating Lanterns for Peace ceremony. Distribution is conducted via a website (ploughsharescalgary.ca), an email newsletter, social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn), in-person events, and a membership program.

The business model is donation-driven. The organization is funded by individual charitable contributions, accepted online via credit card or PayPal, by phone, E-transfer, or mail, and it operates from a single office in Calgary, Alberta (2919 8th Avenue NW). Its customer segments are the general public interested in peace and social justice, educators seeking peace and justice curricula, and community volunteers. It is not a technology company, has no parent or subsidiary entities, no funding rounds, and disclosed headcount is 5 employees.

Name

Project Ploughshares

Legal name

Ploughshares Calgary Society

Website

https://ploughsharescalgary.ca

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Ploughshares Calgary Society is a registered Alberta non-profit that delivers peace education, advocacy, and community programming on nuclear disarmament, antimilitarism, nonviolence, and conflict resolution to the Calgary public, educators, and volunteers, funded by donations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Peace Advocacy and Education Services

NAICS

Human Rights Organizations (813311), Social Advocacy Organizations (81331), Business, Professional, Labor, Political, and Similar Organizations (8139)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Disarmament, Demobilization & Reintegration (DDR) Programs (BPADAFAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Civil Liberties & Constitutional Rights Advocacy (BPAGAFAA)

Keywords

• Peace education programs
• Nuclear disarmament advocacy
• Conflict resolution training
• Antimilitarism advocacy
• Human security advocacy

Headquarters

HQ city

Calgary

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations: The organization accepts donations towards its work as a registered non-profit society in Alberta, relying on public charitable contributions to fund its peace-building activities.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Ploughshares Calgary Society is a registered non-profit peace advocacy organization that delivers peace education programs, public advocacy, and social justice initiatives in Calgary, Alberta. It runs educational sessions, committees (Educators for Peace & Justice; Calgary Floating Lanterns for Peace), publishes a regular newsletter, accepts donations and members, and educates the public on human security, nonviolent conflict resolution, Canadian foreign and defense policies, nuclear disarmament, antimilitarism, and specific wars and interventions.

Product overview

Ploughshares Calgary is a registered non-profit peace advocacy society operating as a single unified organization rather than a platform with modules. The organization offers a portfolio of interconnected programs including peace education sessions, advocacy focus areas (nuclear weapons, anti-militarism, nonviolence, conflict resolution), educational resources for educators and parents, newsletter publications, and community committees. These programs work together to advance the organization's mission of building a culture of peace through education, advocacy, and social justice.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Membership Program A formal membership program through which individual supporters join Ploughshares Calgary Society to engage in and support its peace-building mission. Members receive engagement opportunities tied to the organization's peace education, advocacy, and committee activities.
• Peace Education Sessions Public educational sessions delivered by Ploughshares Calgary Society covering human security, nonviolent conflict resolution, Canadian foreign and defense policies, nuclear disarmament, antimilitarism, and specific wars and interventions. Sessions are aimed at community members, educators, and the general public.
• Calgary Floating Lanterns for Peace Ceremony A recurring ceremonial event organized by Ploughshares Calgary Society that brings the community together in a public peace observance through a floating lantern ceremony in Calgary.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN): The global civil society coalition behind the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and a 2017 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Operates at a much larger international scale but shares Ploughshares Calgary's nuclear disarmament focus and acts as an umbrella that local affiliates can plug into.
• Peace Brigades International (PBI): An international non-governmental organization providing protective accompaniment to human rights defenders and promoting nonviolent conflict resolution. Shares Ploughshares Calgary's commitment to nonviolence and conflict resolution but operates globally and through direct field programs.

Direct peers

• Canadian Peace Congress: A Canadian advocacy organization promoting peace, disarmament, and opposition to militarism. Closely aligned mission and advocacy posture with Ploughshares Calgary, and a candidate for partnership or coalition work on shared disarmament campaigns.
• Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers): The peace and social justice arm of Canadian Quakers, running peace education, Indigenous rights, and disarmament programs. Comparable as a Canadian faith-rooted peace organization with overlapping peace education and advocacy priorities.
• Canadian Physicians for Global Survival / Physicians for Global Survival: A Canadian medical-professional advocacy organization focused on nuclear disarmament, the health consequences of war, and peace education. Shares both the Canadian focus and the disarmament/health framing of Ploughshares Calgary's peace education work.
• Project Ploughshares (Waterloo): The original Canadian Project Ploughshares, founded in 1976 and now based at the University of Waterloo's Conrad Grebel University College. Operates as a sister peace research and advocacy institute focused on disarmament, conflict resolution, and Canadian defense policy—the same thematic core as Ploughshares Calgary.

Peers

• Religions for Peace Canada:

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/PloughsharesCalgary
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/project-ploughshares
• Instagraminstagram.com/ploughshares_calgary

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Investors

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