Craig Newmark’s Biography, Net Worth, Fact, Career, Awards and Life Story
In 2006, he donated $20,000 to a non-profit group, NewAssignment.Net, an attempt to combine the work of amateurs and professionals to produce investigative stories on the Internet.
In 2011, he introduced craigconnects to support non-profits and other organizations “that get things done on a sustainable basis.” He declared it “the biggest thing in my life.”
In January 2017, TechCrunch reported that Newmark donated $500,000 to Wikipedia’s attempt at “reducing harassment and vandalism on the site and improve the tools moderators use every day to keep the peace.”
In August 2018, Newmark donated $1 million to Mother Jones to help the magazine combat fake news.
Through Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Newmark has contributed more than $40 million to journalism initiatives since 2015. In 2017, he donated $1 million each to ProPublica and the Poynter Institute. He made a $20 million endowment to the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which was subsequently renamed the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. Newmark also has a private charitable foundation, to which he contributed $50 million in 2016. Newmark’s foundation supports military families, voter registration efforts, and women in technology. In 2018 Newmark’s donations totaled $143 million. In 2019, he donated $6 million to Consumer Reports to fund a Digital Lab focused on consumer privacy rights and digital security.
Newmark has served as an advisor or board member for the Sunlight Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Rock the Vote, Voto Latino, the Tech Policy Summit, the Center for Public Integrity, the Center for Investigative Reporting, PolitiFact, Consumers Union and Girls Who Code.
