{"id":12493,"date":"2025-12-20T00:06:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/mark-zuckerbergs-nonprofit-cuts-ties-with-the-immigration-advocacy-group-he-co-founded\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T00:06:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:06:41","slug":"mark-zuckerbergs-nonprofit-cuts-ties-with-the-immigration-advocacy-group-he-co-founded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/mark-zuckerbergs-nonprofit-cuts-ties-with-the-immigration-advocacy-group-he-co-founded\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg’s nonprofit cuts ties with the immigration advocacy group he co-founded"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Behold Mark Zuckerberg: man of principle. Witness the Meta CEO’s dedication to the most high-minded of causes: “currying favor with whoever’s in charge.” In 2013, when Barack Obama was president, Zuckerberg co-founded FWD.us<\/span>, a pro-immigration advocacy group. For years, he vocally supported providing paths to citizenship for “the most talented and hardest-working people, no matter where they were born.” Now, in 2025, with Donald Trump back in power and pushing draconian immigration policies, Zuckerberg’s philanthropy organization has officially cut ties with the group. Who says Big Tech executives don’t stand for anything?<\/p>\n

On Friday, Bloomberg<\/em> reported on the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) severing its ties with FWD.us<\/span>. Zuckerberg’s group provided no funding to the advocacy group for the first time this year. Up to that point, over half of the roughly $400 million donated to the nonprofit since 2013 had come from CZI.<\/p>\n

In addition, CZI’s chief of staff, Jordan Fox, resigned from the FWD.us<\/span> board. No one else at CZI will fill the vacant slot, another first for the pro-immigration and justice reform advocacy group.<\/p>\n

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In a statement to Engadget, a spokesperson for CZI said the change had been in the works for several years. “Nearly five years ago, we shared that we were focusing on our core work in science, education, and supporting our local communities,” the spokesperson said. “As part of that transition, we committed foundational funding to FWD.us<\/span> to continue their bipartisan work. We have fulfilled that financial commitment and wound down our social advocacy funding.” She added that the couple’s Biohub initiative is currently their “primary philanthropy.”<\/p>\n

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