Catherine Godschalk
Chief Investment Officer, Calvert Impact, Inc.,
About Catherine
Catherine leads Calvert Impact’s Investments team and the Community Investment Note portfolio, invested through and alongside mission-driven financial intermediaries, funds, and enterprises advancing solutions to inequality and climate change across the US and in more than 100 countries around the globe. Catherine has led a more than doubling of the portfolio over her 13 years at Calvert Impact, driven by the creation and growth of new portfolio strategies in climate sectors of renewable energy, environmental sustainability, and sustainable agriculture, as well as expansion in the portfolio’s traditional sectors of community development, affordable housing, and micro- and small business finance.
Catherine has spent more than 25 years working at the intersection of private capital and social impact, with program and product development, policy, and financing roles across a variety of institutions, including SH Cowell Foundation, the White House Office of Management and Budget, Fannie Mae Corporation, and Self Help Ventures Fund. She serves on the loan committees for ROC USA Capital and Appalachian Community Capital. She has a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and received her BA from Columbia University.
