Team Profile

Beth Bafford

Beth Bafford

Vice President, Strategy

Beth has spent the last decade of her 20-year career building new products and programs at Calvert Impact that drive economic inclusion, clean energy adoption, and environmental sustainability. She has helped expand Calvert Impact’s platform to support and scale the community and green finance industries. This includes a loan syndications business that has structured and raised nearly $1 billion on behalf of community and green finance providers; a series of pandemic-response small business recovery funds; the Cut Carbon Note; the Mission Driven Bank Fund; and Calvert Impact’s new SSBCI state small business programs.

Most recently, Beth has led Climate United, a partnership between Calvert Impact, CPC, and Self-Help that was awarded a mandate to manage part of the National Clean Investment Fund, a program of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund administered by the EPA.

Beth serves on the Advisory Board for the CASE Initiative on Impact Investing (CASEi3) at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, the Investment Committee for the Aaron and Lillie Straus Foundation, the Impact Investment Committee for the Baltimore Community Foundation, and the Board of Founders First Capital Partners. She lives in Baltimore, MD, with her husband and four young children.

Before joining Calvert Impact:
Immediately prior to Calvert, Beth was a consultant focusing on healthcare reform. She has also worked in public service and as a community organizer. Beth received both her BA in Public Policy and MBA in Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University.

Outside of work, Beth enjoys:
Playing and watching sports with her kids and family, especially soccer, basketball, baseball and lacrosse.

Beth's favorite travel destinations are:

  • Any beach or ocean
  • Cross-country trip in an RV (haven’t made it happen yet… but someday!)

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