ALEXANDRA CARTER
Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Alexandra (Alex) Carter, MBA, CFRE, serves as senior vice president and chief development officer at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). She provides strategic leadership in fundraising to support CHLA’s mission: to create hope and build healthier futures for children. She is responsible for developing and launching the institution’s fundraising campaigns and is liaison to its Board of Trustees.
Carter has served as a fundraising leader and counsel to a variety of nonprofit organizations. For over two decades, she has devoted her career to leading philanthropic efforts for prominent health care entities. Since 2017 when her tenure began at CHLA, fundraising records have been exceeded repeatedly. Under Carter’s leadership, CHLA has garnered substantial gifts to support hospital priorities including groundbreaking research; professional development for nurses; the expansion of behavioral health services for patients; the remodeling of the Emergency Department and Trauma Center; and programs designed to support compassionate, family-centered care.
