Kim Covington
Vice President, Strategic Partnerships
Kim Covington is the Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at the Arizona Community Foundation. She plays a lead role in identifying, cultivating, and creating new strategic partnerships that will further the impact on ACF’s key focus areas in environment, education, and housing across Arizona. The growth of ACF’s giving circles under her leadership has served as a national model for the community foundation sector.
Kim left the formal newsroom after 30 years in the television news industry. Along with her time at KPNX 12 News as a News Anchor and School Solutions Reporter, her career spans from Springfield, Missouri and Grand Rapids, Michigan to her hometown St. Louis, Missouri, ensuring diverse voices were present in her stories and news coverage. She is the recipient of several awards including four Emmy Awards for excellence in reporting, several Associated Press awards, 2023 Positively Powerful Woman Award, 2023 Arizona Commission of African American Affairs “Unsung Hero” Founders Award, 2022 NAACP Maricopa County Branch Civic Engagement Award, 2022 MLK Living the Dream Award, 2022 Youth World Education Legend Award, 2020 Town of Paradise Valley Martin Luther King Diversity Award, the 2019 Valle del Sol Mom of the Year Award, 2017 In-Business Women of Achievement Award, the Black Educators Ragsdale Beacon of Hope Award, Judge Jean Williams Service Award, and the Arizona School Public Relations Association Award of Excellence to name a few.
She currently serves on several boards including the Cronkite Endowment Board of Trustees, City of Phoenix Fast Track Initiatives Ad Hoc Committee to end HIV by 2030, Clearinghouse CDFI’s Arizona Board of Advisors, ASU Lodestar Leadership Council, Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office African American Advisory Council, and is a member of the prestigious Phoenix Chapter of the Links, Incorporated, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated and the International Women’s Forum. The wife and mother of two is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia Journalism School.