Philanthropist gives $15 million to Craft3

Scott's second gift to nonprofit lender

Craft3, a nonprofit community lender in the Pacific Northwest, has been gifted $15 million from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott.

In a statement, Bruce Brooks, Craft3's president and interim CEO, described the gift from Scott's Yield Giving as an “affirmation of Craft3’s mission to build a thriving, just and empowered Pacific Northwest.”

This is the second time that Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has donated to Craft3, which was founded in Ilwaco, Washington, in 1994 and has an office in Astoria.

Read the full article at The Astorian.