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Giving Billions Fast, MacKenzie Scott Upends Philanthropy

The New York Times

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December

2020

Through a streamlined operation, Ms. Scott has given $6 billion this years, much of it to small charities and nonprofits.
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384 Ways to Help

Medium

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December

2020

This pandemic has been a wrecking ball in the lives of Americans already struggling. Economic losses and health outcomes alike have been worse for women, for people of color, and for people living in poverty.
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MacKenzie Scott gives away $4.1 billion to 384 organizations, including 5 Washington state groups

The Seattle Times

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December

2020

MacKenzie Scott, the philanthropist, author and former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced Tuesday that she has given away $4.1 billion in the past four months to 384 organizations, part of a giving pledge she announced last year.
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MacKenzie Scott Makes Catalytic $10 Million Gift to Craft3

Carl Seip

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December

2020

SEATTLE, Wash. – Craft3, a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) in the Pacific Northwest, announced today that it has received an extraordinary $10 million grant from author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. The gift will support Craft3’s critical work in building resilient communities across Oregon and Washington.
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JPMorgan Chase awards $5 million to three Portland CDFIs

Portland Business Journal

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October

2020

Three local nonprofits have received a $5 million, three-year grant from JPMorgan Chase that will be used to address ongoing disparities in housing and small-business lending, part of the New York-based bank’s $500 million, five-year economic opportunity initiative called AdvancingCities.
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Craft3 works to finance unconventional borrowers

Spokane Journal of Business

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June

2020

In a time like this, the value of the nonprofit Craft3 can’t be underestimated, claim two of the organization’s Spokane employees. Craft3 specializes in lending to businesses and people who can’t secure funding from conventional sources.
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Coquille Tribe to expand local care access with new wellness center

The Bandon Western World

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April

2020

The Coquille Indian Tribe has begun construction of Oregon’s first tribal health center offering services to the general public.
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7 organizations at the front lines of COVID-19 response in Oregon

Portland Business Journal

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April

2020

As the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis are felt around the state, nonprofits serving vulnerable populations and providing critical loans to small businesses are getting timely, home-grown support.
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$20 million substance abuse treatment center coming to Keller

The Star

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February

2020

The tribes announced Feb. 3 that a $20 million, 32-bed treatment center will be located in Keller, facilitated by tax credits to two companies investing in the project.
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Fort George to revive canning at Astoria Warehousing

The Astorian

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October

2019

After purchasing the 5-acre campus for $8 million last week, Fort George Brewery co-owners Chris Nemlowill and Jack Harris are looking forward to an expansion they hope will add lots of beer and 35 manufacturing jobs over the next five years.
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Craft3 gets $50 million for projects in low-income areas

Portland Business Journal

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May

2019

The nonprofit lender Craft3 has received $50 million in federal New Markets Tax Credits to help fund community and economic development projects in low-income census tracts.
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Nonprofit sees new life at Astoria Armory

The Astorian

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December

2018

After nearly five years of excising the Armory’s buried environmental demons with the support of financial lender Craft3, Friends of the Astoria Armory last week took possession of the building, beginning a new chapter of its renovation into a modern performance venue.
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Commerce grants $3 million from Clean Energy Fund to Nonprofit Lenders

Washington State Department of Commerce

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September

2018

Craft3, Puget Sound Cooperative Credit Union and Washington State Housing Finance Commission revolving loan funds encourage home renewable energy and heating projects; commercial and industrial energy efficiency retrofits, clean tech manufacturing, electric vehicles
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Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding offers new programs to answer need in trades

Peninsula Daily News

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April

2018

The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding has launched new programs to address the region’s need for skilled marine systems technicians, according to Executive Director Betsy Davis.
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High Desert Biomass Cooperative Buys Heating System

Burns Times-Herald

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November

2017

HDBC signed the papers to buy out the co-op formed several years ago by Wisewood Energy and Harney Community Energy to provide sustainable heating to Harney County School District, the Harney County Courthouse, and Symmetry Care.
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So long, Sugar Shack: Affordable housing planned at Living Cully Plaza

Street Roots

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November

2017

Hacienda CDC, a nonprofit affordable housing developer, has announced it will build 150 units of affordable housing in the housing-starved Cully neighborhood – all on a site better known for a notorious strip club.
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Former Craft3 CEO honored in memoriam

The Astorian

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September

2017

The Opportunity Finance Network, an national network for community development financial institutions, posthumously gave the late John Berdes, the founder and former president and CEO of Craft3, the 2017 Ned Gramlich Lifetime Achievement Award for Responsible Finance.
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Former Astoria city manager heads Craft3 board

The Astorian

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November

2016

Paul Benoit, a former city manager of Astoria, has been elected chairman of nonprofit lender Craft3’s board of directors. He took over from Steve McConnell, who served in the position since 2007.
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Craft3 hires new leader from within

The Astorian

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August

2016

Nonprofit lender Craft3 has chosen Adam Zimmerman as the new president and CEO. He takes over for John Berdes, who died in June of lung cancer.
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John Berdes Obituary

The Seattle Times

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July

2016

John Berdes, president and CEO of Craft3, an unconventional lending institution, died Sunday, June 12, 2016 of lung cancer. He lived in Seattle and was 58.
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