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.
The whole thing has been an interesting kind of change management process. When I came in - and in some ways, the legalities - you know. The organizational processes and legalities of taking two organizations and creating one was almost easier than the staffing challenges, and the cultural change ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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Christine DeVita Discusses Challenges of Change and Growth Within the Wallace Foundation
Christine DeVita States Organizational Management Is The Same Regardless of Profit or Non-Profit Sector
Christine DeVita States Work-Life Balance Can Be The Most Difficult Management Challenge Faced in Life
