D ina Lieberman - has spent 15 years in senior management positions in the not-for-profit sector, both in the arts in Montreal and Toronto, and in healthcare as a Campaign Fundraiser. Dina’s career began with two decades of working in the film business as Director of the first documentary in Canada on Breast Cancer at the National Film Board in Montreal. A move to Toronto in the seventies led to several years of freelancing as Project Development and Screenplay Consultant for feature film and television movies for major funding agencies and private producers. Dina was one of the very first screenplay consultants in Canada for Telefilm Canada and CBC which paved the way for the industry’s recognition of the critical importance of the writer and the script to any film’s success.
This was followed by a three-year position (1989-1992) at the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television head office in Toronto, as Membership Manager for Canada, in which Dina was very involved in the Genie Film Awards and the Gemini Television Awards as one of the original committee members for the inaugural Gemini Television Awards. For three years, Dina also took on the role of Co-President of Women in Film - Toronto, an advocacy organization working on women’s behalf which exists throughout the U.S, England and Australia. Dina was an integral player in the very initial stages of the present-day Women’s Television Network (Channel 29) in the early submissions to the CRTC.
A career fundraiser, Dina was Director of Development at Opera Atelier, a baroque opera ballet company, for almost six years (1994-1999). At the same time as she initiated significant patron and sponsorship programs, implemented a GTA-wide educational hands-on program for 1000 students allowing for multi-year new corporate sponsorship and implemented the Versailles Banquet fundraiser which raised the company’s profile and revenue generating capacity, she consulted on the documentary, Exposures, (narrated by Olivia Newton John) linking breast cancer and the environment, which has won several awards.
Her last position (2001- 2004) at the University Health Network as Senior Development Officer on the $400 million campaign consisted of laying crucial groundwork for Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation’s Diabetes and Transplant Campaign portfolios.
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