Individual Bios

Catherine Godschalk, Manager of Domestic Investments

Catherine Godschalk joined the Calvert Foundation in July 2011 to lead the domestic lending team. Prior to joining Calvert Foundation, Catherine was the Washington, DC Regional Office Director at Self-Help Ventures Fund, where she led the organization’s efforts to provide more than $33 million in financing to support commercial real estate, affordable housing, charter schools, and other community facilities in underserved areas around the Washington, DC metro area. Catherine also led Self-Help’s national Foreclosure Recovery Initiative, developing loan products and lending capital designed to support the redevelopment single family and multifamily foreclosed properties. Catherine joined Self-Help in 2005 after six years as Senior Policy Analyst in Fannie Mae’s Housing and Community Development Division, where she managed a team of analysts focused on policy and product development to support minority and low-income homeownership, combating predatory lending, and supporting efforts to end chronic homelessness. Prior to Fannie Mae, Catherine managed grant portfolios focused on affordable housing development and school-to-work educational initiatives for the SH Cowell Foundation in San Francisco, CA. Catherine has a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and lives in Maryland with her husband and two young children.