Tanya Lieber, Vice President, CHOC Children’s Foundation
As the Vice President of the CHOC Children’s Foundation, Tanya Lieber is responsible for the design and implementation of fundraising strategies that support patient care, research, education and campus expansion at CHOC Children’s, Orange County’s only pediatric healthcare system. She oversees all capital campaigns, major gifts, corporate and foundation relations, planned gifts, annual gifts and a host of special events that generate community awareness and critical resources for CHOC.
Within Ms. Lieber’s three-year tenure with the CHOC Children’s Foundation, she and her team have increased their fundraising totals by 80 percent. Additionally, the hospital’s most visible fundraiser – the CHOC Walk in the Park presented by the Disneyland Resort – experienced its most successful year in 2008, bringing in a record total of $1.6 million. Another key achievement, Ms. Lieber and her staff managed to make CHOC a Children’s Miracle Network hospital. Within the first year of the partnership, the Foundation raised more than $1 million. Ms. Lieber is currently leading the CHOC Children’s Foundation on a major capital campaign to build one of the most advanced children’s hospitals in the world on CHOC’s main campus in Orange.
Prior to joining CHOC, Ms. Lieber served as Director of Health Sciences Advancement at the University of California, Davis Health System, where she oversaw all development efforts for the School of Medicine, UC Davis Medical Center, Children’s Hospital, Cancer Center, M.I.N.D. Institute, Vascular Research Institute and more than 40 other clinics and specialties. She served as Director of Development for Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital in Nashville, for which she helped raise more than $75 million for a new children’s hospital tower. Ms. Lieber has also worked for the American Heart Association and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Ms. Lieber earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Iowa. She is a member of the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy, Association of American Medical Colleges and National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions.
