EXPAND WHAT'S POSSIBLE FOR YOUR CLIENTS
If you have a loan you’d like to make but can’t, Craft3 may be able to help. As a nonprofit lender, we often can make loans banks can’t. We can take more risk and work with borrowers who aren’t ready for bank financing.
When you refer a client to us, you keep the deposit relationship. We'll help your client if we can and refer them back to you when they're ready for bank financing.
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SUCCESS STORY
Building Better Deals Together
A partnership between Craft3 and Stearns Salaam Banking helped the Muslim Association of Puget Sound purchase 100,000 square feet of former office and flex space in Redmond, WA. The deal marked a historic moment: one of the largest Islamic center acquisitions in the country, creating a powerful model for inter-organizational collaboration and community-led development.
Strategic partnerships with CDFIs, like Craft3, allows us to reimagine and fund more innovative, community-centered projects that can have meaningful impacts for years to come.
Irshad Rasheed
President of Stearns Salaam Banking.
Download the Craft3 Banker Referral Guide
When a good client can’t meet traditional credit standards, you don’t have to say no.
If you need a simple way to refer clients who don’t quite fit your lending box but still deserve to move forward—our Banker Referral Guide is built for you.
Get everything you need to make a confident, streamlined referral by clicking below.
OUR TEAM
“As a banker, I often found myself saying, “No,” to good people with good ideas. Craft3, a mission-driven community development financial institution, can take more risks and make loans banks can’t. For example, we’re often able to finance good businesses with “bad” credit, so long as there’s strong business opportunity and plausible explanations for any credit blemishes.”
Turner Waskom
Chief Lending Officer, EVP