The Peace Grantmakers Network (PGN) is a group of philanthropic foundations, individual donors, and corporate and institutional partners working collaboratively in support of applied peace efforts PGN aims to make peace a more widely known and better-supported area of philanthropy, not as a political endeavor, but as a constructive field geared to the creation of a more harmonious and non-violent society.
Even though peace is a widely-shared value among Canadians, and despite there being many worthwhile grassroots peace initiatives in Canada, peace as an object of philanthropy remains underdeveloped. PGN works to: