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.
From a foundation perspective, I think it is really hard to write a good RFP. A request for proposal. And it gets really hard not because it is hard to write clearly and persuasively, and compellingly, because that is always hard to do. But it is hard because it forces - it requires really though...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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