COLORADO MEDIA project TEAM
CMP’s mission is to support people, projects, and organizations working to build a healthier and more equitable local news and information ecosystem for all Coloradans. Day-to-day, these community leaders and their organizations carry the torch — catalyzing projects and leading working groups to build a healthier local news ecosystem.
Kimberly Spencer, CFRE, (Colorado Media Project, Director) is a nonprofit leader with over 20 years of experience in fundraising, organizational strategy, and media sustainability. She has partnered with news organizations and journalism support groups such as Rocky Mountain Public Media, LION, and the Mississippi Free Press to build sustainable fundraising strategies, deepen donor engagement, and coach publishers on revenue growth. She also serves on the board of Open Vallejo, an investigative news outlet.
Kimberly has led major giving campaigns, created lasting revenue models, and supported media organizations through periods of change. She is known for aligning fundraising with mission, promoting collaboration, and building systems that support long-term impact. She often shares her knowledge at industry events, offering insights on nonprofit sustainability, donor relations, and media philanthropy.
A Certified Fund Raising Executive, Kimberly holds a Bachelor’s in Strategic Leadership for Nonprofit Organizations and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Management and Leadership. Her work reflects a strong commitment to supporting local news, informed communities, and inclusive journalism that serves the public good.
Sam Moody (Colorado Media Project, Associate Director) brings over a decade of social impact experience in strategic planning, organizational learning, local government policy, and philanthropy to the role. He has worked with global foundations, local governments, social enterprises, and community nonprofits across North and South America as a program and project leader, fundraiser, and strategic partner. Sam embodies the power of teamwork, and is passionate about building the capacity of communities to make audacious plans, assemble the resources necessary for success, and engage stakeholders in continuous learning. He is a native New Englander and holds both Bachelors and Masters degrees in International Development and Social Change from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. His love of photography, gardens and bikes feeds back into his work, as opportunities to practice awareness of how others see, grow, and move through the world.
Corey Hutchins (Colorado College) is a journalism instructor and a contributor to Columbia Journalism Review, The Washington Post, and other news outlets. He writes case studies for CMP and receives underwriting support from CMP for his popular industry newsletter, Inside the News in Colorado. He is a former alt-weekly reporter, was twice named South Carolina's journalist of the year by the S.C. Press Association, was a stringer for CBS news covering the GOP presidential primary, and was South Carolina's lead researcher and reporter on the State Integrity Investigation, a risk analysis for corruption in all 50 state governments published by the Center for Public Integrity, Global Integrity and Public Radio International. His graphic novel about Alvin Greene, The Accidental Candidate, was published by McFarland.
Tim Regan-Porter (Colorado Press Association) leads the state’s largest professional membership association for journalists, which is a co-investor with CMP in the Colorado News Collaborative. Tim is founding executive director of the Center for Collaborative Journalism at Mercer University in Georgia, a 2018 graduate of Stanford University's John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship, and was most recently a regional editor overseeing product development and innovation for McClatchy. Tim is a board member of COLab, and his experience leading multiple startups, creating coalitions, and launching revenue-generating local news products will ensure CPA remains at the forefront of statewide efforts with COLab, CMP, and many other allies who are working together to find innovative solutions to the challenges and opportunities facing journalism in Colorado. On Medium @timreganporter.
Laura Frank (Colorado News Collaborative) leads COLab, an independent, nonprofit resource hub and ideas lab connecting journalists from more than 150 news outlets across Colorado. CMP is a core funder and programmatic partner of COLab. Laura pioneered collaborative journalism in Colorado as the founder of I-News, the nonprofit investigative news organization that merged with Rocky Mountain Public Media in 2013, the first such merger in the nation. She led the journalism team there for seven years, and now leads 20+ newsrooms in collaborative reporting through the Colorado News Collaborative. She is a Denver native who spent 20 years reporting for newspapers, radio and public television around the country, specializing in investigative reporting and data analysis. She was a founding member of the Institute for Nonprofit News and now serves as its board chair. Her work has won awards in both broadcast and print, and led to changes in laws and lives.