Beth Bafford | CEO, Climate United

Beth Bafford

CEO,
Climate United

Beth Bafford is the CEO of Climate United, a coalition managing $6.97 billion of the $14 billion National Clean Investment Fund, a program of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund administered by the EPA. 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, including 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 recovery funds; the Cut Carbon Note; the Mission Driven Bank Fund; and Calvert Impact’s Access program for small businesses.

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.

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