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Philanthropy section reorganization and additions
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Spintendo, I saw you removed the suggestions from the previous request. Since all that remains are the reorganization and additions, here is a draft of how I envision the section looking with my remaining suggestions:
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Philanthropy The Chronicle of Philanthropy ranked Newmark 17th out of 50 in its 2020 ranking of individual donors, giving a total of $100 million.[7] In 2022, Newmark donated $81 million through the Craig Newmark Foundation and Craig Newmark Philanthropic Fund so he ranked on Chronicle of Philanthropy's top 50 again.[8] Veterans Cybersecurity In 2022, Newmark committed $50 million to the Cyber Civil Defense initiative.[17] As of April 2022, approximately $30 of this commitment had been awarded.[18] In 2023,Craig Newmark Philanthropies announced it would double its donations from $50 million to $100 million for fighting cyber threats.[19] Other donations Newmark made include: $1 million to the Global Cyber Alliance, $150,000 to Women in CyberSecurity, and $250,000 to the Girl Scouts for cybersecurity programs.[20] He has also supported Girls Who Code.[21][22] Journalism In 2021, Newmark supported the establishment of the Institute for Rebooting Social Media at Harvard University;[14] the Reporters Without Borders Journalism Trust Initiative;[15] and provided funding to expand PBS NewsHour's coverage of underrepresented communities.[16] As of 2022, it was estimated that Newmark had given between $180 million and $200 million for journalism and fighting disinformation.[18] Other journalistic causes Newmark has supported include: the Center for Public Integrity, the Center for Investigative Reporting, PolitiFact,[27] Poynter Institute, Columbia Journalism Review.[22][2] Columbia's Tow Center for Digital Journalism, The GroundTruth Project, and the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Berkeley Center for New Media.[28][29] Other According to Newmark, as of May 2021 he'd given a total of $25 million to organizations working on food security.[32] Newmark was among a group of prominent individuals who backed the Marshall Plan for Moms, which called on the Biden Administration to pass policies addressing paid family leave, training programs for women returning to work, and pay equity.[33] Other examples of organizations and causes Newmark has supported include: OneVoice,[1] Sunlight Foundation,[2] Voto Latino,[34] and the Wikimedia Foundation[28] He has given $100,000 to support wildlife rescue groups.[20]Newmark has said that he is involved in pigeon rescue.[8] References
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Here is a specific breakdown of what I am suggesting is to be added or reorganized:
- Add the following subsections: Veterans, Cybersecurity, Journalism, and Other
- This does not have any specific sources but I think you will find that if the other sentences are approved, this reorganization will go a long way to making the section more readable.
- Change the following sentence from "His philanthropic interests have also included environmental issues, as well as veterans affairs." to "His philanthropic interests include journalism, cyber security, and more."[1]
- Add the following sentence: "In 2021, Newmark donated $5 million to the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School."[2]
- Change the following paragraph from "In 2021, Newmark's philanthropic efforts continued to address cybersecurity, misinformation, journalism, and food security. He supported the Institute for Security and Technology's anti-ransomware program; a six-month study on misinformation and disinformation by the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder;the establishment of the Institute for Rebooting Social Media at Harvard University; the Reporters Without Borders Journalism Trust Initiative; and provided funding to expand PBS NewsHour's coverage of underrepresented communities. According to Newmark, as of May 2021 he'd given a total of $25 million to organizations working on food security, including $300,000 to the DC Central Kitchen." to "In 2021, Newmark supported the establishment of the Institute for Rebooting Social Media at Harvard University;[3] the Reporters Without Borders Journalism Trust Initiative;[4] and provided funding to expand PBS NewsHour's coverage of underrepresented communities.[5]
- As of 2022, it was estimated that Newmark had given between $180 million and $200 million for journalism and fighting disinformation.[2]
- Other journalistic causes Newmark has supported include: the Center for Public Integrity, the Center for Investigative Reporting, PolitiFact,[6] Poynter Institute, Columbia Journalism Review.[7][1] Columbia's Tow Center for Digital Journalism, The GroundTruth Project, and the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Berkeley Center for New Media.[8][9]
- Replace the paragraph "Other examples of organizations and causes Newmark has supported include: OneVoice, Sunlight Foundation, Voto Latino, the Center for Public Integrity, the Center for Investigative Reporting, PolitiFact, Poynter Institute, Columbia Journalism Review and Girls Who Code. The Center for Public Integrity, Columbia's Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Wikimedia Foundation, The Ground Truth Project, and the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Berkeley Center for New Media. He has given $100,000 to support wildlife rescue groups. In 2015, he donated $10,000 to Grow It Green Morristown for the installation of a composting toilet at the Early Street Community Garden. The facility was named "Craig Newmark Memorial Latrine #2". The first toilet Newmark sponsored was in the City of Jericho." with "Other examples of organizations and causes Newmark has supported include: OneVoice,[10] Sunlight Foundation,[1] Voto Latino,[11] and the Wikimedia Foundation[8] He has given $100,000 to support wildlife rescue groups.[12] Newmark has said that he is involved in pigeon rescue.[13]"
- Reword and move information in the following paragraph throughout the Philanthropy section: "Between 2016 and 2020, Newmark donated $170 million to support journalism, combating harassment of journalists, cybersecurity, and election integrity. Donations he made include: $1 million each to ProPublica and the Poynter Institute in 2017, $1 million to the Global Cyber Alliance, $150,000 to Women in CyberSecurity, $250,000 to PEN America, and $250,000 to the Girl Scouts for cybersecurity programs. In September 2018, he gave $20 million to fund the creation of The Markup, a non-profit news organization. In 2018, Newmark's donations totaled $143 million."
- This information would be redistributed throughout the subsections I suggested. It's all already in the article and sourced. Please see my draft as presented earlier in this request for clarification on how this redistribution would work.
- Add the following sentence: "In 2022, Newmark donated $81 million through the Craig Newmark Foundation and Craig Newmark Philanthropic Fund so he ranked on Chronicle of Philanthropy's top 50 again.[13]"
- Add the following sentence: "Craig Newmark Philanthropies announced a $2.95 million grant in 2022 to The Bob Woodruff Foundation's Got Your 6 Network. In total, Craig Newmark Philanthropies has reported more than $18 million in contributions to military and veteran communities.[14]"
- Add the following sentence: "Newmark donated $1 million in 2023 to Blue Star Families.[15]"
- Add the following subsections: Veterans, Cybersecurity, Journalism, and Other
References
- Coughlin, Kevin (July 20, 2015). "You can go (at) home again…as craiglist founder Craig Newmark proves with Grow It Green Morristown". Morristown Green. Archived from the original on August 17, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
- Karon, Paul (19 April 2022). "A Tech Industry Pioneer Targets Cybersecurity, and Calls for a New Era of "Cyber Civil Defense"". Inside Philanthropy. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
- Mello, John P. (September 10, 2021). "Could a reboot make social media a nicer place?". BBC News. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
- Fitzpatrick, Michael (May 18, 2021). "French media watchdog launches bid to promote trustworthy news sources". Radio France Internationale. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
- Katz, A.J. (March 18, 2021). "Here's How PBS NewsHour Is Expanding Its Coverage Capacity". Adweek. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
- Beard, David (August 27, 2018). "Newmark's gift to Mother Jones follows threats to journalism, factual information". Poynter. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
- "Craig Newmark". Inside Philanthropy. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
- Zhou, Marrian (August 28, 2018). "Craigslist founder gives Mother Jones $1 million to fight fake news". CNET. Retrieved March 16, 2021.
- Bereznak, Alyssa (June 1, 2017). "Craig From Craigslist's Second Act". The Ringer. Retrieved February 17, 2021.
- Iqbal, Navid (June 26, 2004). "Web guru hails from Morristown". Daily Record. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
- Wildermuth, John (August 28, 2019). "Craigslist founder Craig Newmark donates $250,000 for election security". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
- Au-Yeung, Angel (August 4, 2020). "Craig Newmark says misinformation is dismantling our democracy. Here's how he plans to fight it". Forbes. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
- {{cite news |last1=Gamboa |first1=Glenn |title=Q&A: Craig Newmark focuses gifts on journalism, cyberdefense
- Longley, Liz (27 May 2022). "On Memorial Day, Here's How Some New and Longtime Funders Have Veterans' Six". Inside Philanthropy. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
- Swartz, Dan (5 May 2023). "PHOTO RECAP: White House Correspondents Dinner Weekend - Washingtonian". The Washingtonian. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
Please let me know if I can clarify in any way. Cnewmark (talk) 19:08, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
- @Cnewmark
Not done for now: Please establish a consensus with editors engaged in the subject area before using the {{Edit COI}} template for this proposed change. Thank you for your reply it's much appreciated. In answer to your question about the deleted content, I had asked for you to provide text that you wanted to have removed from the article. You provided that text, and I removed the text that you suggested, replacing it with the text from your proposal which I felt passed WP:BALASP. Please note that a description of isolated philanthropic events and news reports related to the subject may be verifiable and impartial, but can still be found to be disproportionate to their overall significance to the article's topic. In the COI edit request process, a reviewing editor must weigh all of these philanthropic items together and decide which to place in the article and which to leave out, according to their best judgment. The COI editor is of course welcome to seek a more broader consensus from local editors here on the talk page if they're seeking to include a larger amount of this content than what was approved. I would be happy to step aside and let that happen if you wish. That process (of seeking a broader consensus) should take place before using the {{Edit COI}}template (which is mostly for when you want one editor to handle your request). Whichever process you ultimately choose is completely up to you. All of us are here to help in any way we can. Just let us know. Thank you! Regards, Spintendo 23:16, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
- Spintendo, thanks! I do want to seek input from more editors
on this talk page based on your feedback. Cnewmark (talk) 15:44, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
- @Cnewmark Hello, I am running across both 2015 and 2016 as the founding year for CN Philanthropies. Would you please help set the record straight regarding the founding years for both CN Philanthropies and The CN Foundation. Thanks! Jess (talk) 17:01, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
- @JeffUK Hello, I'm sending along this note based on your earlier suggestion for a rewrite of the Philanthropy section. If you have time to take a look at it below I think a final check on the references and links would be beneficial. In either case it seems close to me. I am waiting for a minor clarification from subject person Craig Newmark. Unless there are more suggestions to consider I plan to move this onto the main article page by, say, next weekend. Thank you for your time. Jess (talk) 16:51, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
- @Spintendo Hello, (love your user name and icon design) I have made some edits to the Craig Newmark Philanthropy section as explained in my note below. Please give it a read-through if your time permits. I hope to go live by next weekend. Thanks! Jess (talk) 16:51, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
@JStengel
New edits on Talk Page Only - Philanthropy section suggestions attempted: ♫ I liked the idea of the rewrite for this Philanthropy section, so I took a couple of passes at pulling it together. I mostly drew on what others had suggested. I edited minor elements without mention. I combed through each sentence suggested in both the collapsible section and the section with the general guideline suggestions, which follows below the collapsable green bar section. In some cases moving a specific donation e.g. Consumer Reports to Cybersecurity from Journalism, and the PEN America sentence the opposite way, etc. I tried to make it more chronological. Generally, I added external links to some non-wiki-listed elements and bracketed [[ ]] those that have a Wiki page where I had the time, and I am thinking that sort of thing can be polished later. I left extra spaces between some lines for readability during this phase, i.e. prior to going "live".
Notes about the references: The soft paywalls (e.g. just giving your ID info and you're in, Ref#4 "The Philanthropy 50") should not be an issue. The hard paywalls that want money to get past, like "Inside Philanthropy" Refs# 9 & 18, might be a slight bummer for some, but I think acceptable for a Wikipedia reference in this case. These references had errors and I fixed them. #10, #21, #22. I added one, Ref#35. All those reference numbers still refer to the starting draft numbers on the list of suggestions from Craig Newmark. Except of course for the one I added. Where I had to delete a bad one and replace it with a good reference and link, well, other editors will have to think about those. Ask if you've got questions and I'll respond.
I foresee going "live" as a two-and-a-half step process. #1 replacing the current content with the consensus content, #2 making sure those pesky refs match up, and #2.5 a "final" check.
I think we’re close, eh?
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Philanthropy In 2018, Newmark's donations totaled $143 million. [6] The Chronicle of Philanthropy ranked Newmark 17th out of 50 in its 2020 ranking of individual donors, giving a total of $100 million.[7] In 2022, Newmark donated $81 million through the Craig Newmark Foundation and Craig Newmark Philanthropic Fund again ranking in Chronicle of Philanthropy's top 50. [8]
In 2022, Craig Newmark Philanthropies announced a $2.95 million grant to The Bob Woodruff Foundation's Got Your 6 Network. In 2023, Newmark donated $1 million to Blue Star Families.[10] In total, Craig Newmark Philanthropies has reported more than $18 million in contributions to military and veteran communities. [11]
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". [12] In 2019, Newmark donated $6 million to Consumer Reports to fund a Digital Lab focused on consumer privacy rights and cybersecurity. [13] In 2021, Newmark supported the Institute for Security and Technology's anti-ransomware program; [14] a six-month study on misinformation and disinformation by the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder; [15] the establishment of the Institute for Rebooting Social Media at Harvard University; [16] the Reporters Without Borders Journalism Trust Initiative; [17] and provided funding to expand PBS NewsHour's coverage of underrepresented communities. [18] In 2022, Newmark committed $50 million to the Cyber Civil Defense initiative. [19] As of April 2022, approximately $30 million of this commitment had been awarded. [20] In 2023, Craig Newmark Philanthropies announced it would double its donations from $50 million to $100 million for fighting cyber threats. [21] Other donations Newmark made include: $1 million to the Global Cyber Alliance, $150,000 to Women in CyberSecurity, and $250,000 to the Girl Scouts for cybersecurity programs. [22] He is also an avid supporter of Girls Who Code.[23] [24]
In 2006, The Guardian reported that Newmark was "readying his armoury of cash to invest in citizen journalism projects". [25] Between 2016 and 2020, Newmark donated $170 million to support journalism, combating harassment of journalists, cybersecurity, and election integrity, including $1 million each to ProPublica and the Poynter Institute in 2017. [5] In September 2018, he gave $20 million to fund the creation of The Markup, a non-profit news organization. [22] That year, Newmark donated $1 million to Mother Jones to help the magazine combat fake news.[26] In 2021, Newmark donated $5 million to the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. [20] Newmark made a $20 million endowment to the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which was subsequently renamed the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. [5] According to The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Newmark's 2020 donations included $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League[4] Newmark gave $5 million to the Poynter Institute, which used the funds to establish the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership. Newmark's previous donation of $1 million to the Poynter established the Craig Newmark Journalism Ethics Chair. He also gave $10 million to Columbia University to establish a center for journalism ethics and security, as well as a professorship. [27] In 2021, Newmark supported the establishment of the Institute for Rebooting Social Media at Harvard University; [16] the Reporters Without Borders Journalism Trust Initiative; [17] and provided funding to expand PBS NewsHour's coverage of underrepresented communities. [18] As of 2022, it was estimated that Newmark had given between $180 million and $200 million for journalism and fighting disinformation. [20] Other journalistic causes Newmark has supported include: the Center for Public Integrity, the Center for Investigative Reporting, PolitiFact, [28] Poynter Institute, Columbia Journalism Review. [24] [2] Columbia's Tow Center for Digital Journalism, The GroundTruth Project, and the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Berkeley Center for New Media. [29] [30] Other Philanthropic Activities Newmark was among a group of prominent individuals who backed the Marshall Plan for Moms, which called on the Biden Administration to pass policies addressing paid family leave, training programs for women returning to work, and pay equity. [34] Other examples of organizations and causes Newmark has supported include: OneVoice, [1] Sunlight Foundation,[2] Voto Latino,[35] and the Wikimedia Foundation [29] He has given $100,000 to support wildlife rescue groups.[22] Newmark has said that he is involved in pigeon rescue of certain subspecies with vertigo trapped on high ledges.[8]
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- Thank you very much Jess I will review these suggestions and get back to you along with my answers to your questions before the weekend. Cnewmark (talk) 13:27, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
- As promised, [User:Jstengel|Jess]], I have some feedback for you
and answers to your questions. First, I think the edits you proposed look good and if you want to implement it, I have no suggestions for you.
- To answer your question: 2015 would be the year for CN
Philanthropies and CN Foundation. Cnewmark (talk) 13:24, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
Hello User:ArcticSeeress Thank you for being an editor. I noticed you removed a number of external links from the Craig_Newmark page. May I please know if these changes are based on the Wiki Manual of Style Guidlines or personal preference, or both, and moreover, your interpretation and opinion about the Manual's suggestion that inline external links "slow the reader down"? My feeling is that these links, not only in this article but in general, help readers by providing inline options to follow for more info, or not follow, at their will and based on their current knowledge. I therefore feel the opposite of what the Manual suggests, that in fact such links speed the learning process and that dead links can be removed by BOTS and flaged for updates if/as needed. I feel some if not all of the external links in the Newmark article should be restored or placed somewhere within the article for the reason(s) stated. Mostly, to speed learning at the readers option. I would have to re-read the entire article and check every ref again to determine whether the knowledge provided by the removed external links is present elsewhere and before I try and find the time to do that I wanted to touch base with you to understand your thinking, intent, and perhaps share other ideas you may have regarding this process in general and how it may relate to this article. Thanks again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jstengel (talk • contribs) 23:17, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
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Folks, I'd appreciate a little help, I uploaded and released two images under a Creative Commons license to help update this article. Here are some newer ones for you to consider replacing the 13-year-old headshot in the infobox.
Feel free to reach out with any questions. Much thanks, Cnewmark (talk) 11:01, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
Suggested Addition (2021 Interview)
In November 2021, I interviewed Craig Newmark, during which he shared that he was actively working to “slim down” his charitable giving to simplify how he supports causes. He mentioned this was the first time he shared this with anyone.
This came up at around minute 19:00 in the conversation:
Craig Newmark on TeachPitch (Spotify)
Quote:
“I’m trying to slim down my giving… so that I can focus more on the things that really matter to me, and not be spread so thin.”
I think this could add context to the “Other philanthropic activities” section of his article.
Disclosing this as a COI and leaving it to the community to assess for inclusion. Thanks! Littleclown27 (talk) 10:16, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

