M. Christine DeVita is President of The Wallace Foundation, a private charitable foundation created by Lila and DeWitt Wallace, the founders of Reader's Digest, as a legacy of their own philanthropic lives.
DeVita joined the foundation in November 1987. Since then, she has led the foundation as it has shifted away from project-focused grantmaking and toward more integrated strategies that combine program, evaluation and communications expertise to deliver social benefits beyond the recipients of the foundation's direct grants.
DeVita earned her B.A. magna cum laude from Queens College of the City University of New York and her J.D. cum laude from Fordham University School of Law.
If you think about the history of foundations, in the 19th century, it was very much a charity model. And in many cases still is. We exist to support the nonprofits in our community. Shelter the homeless. Feed the hungry. Care for the sick. Very much is how the foundation world began in the 19...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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