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 thing that I think has been most surprising to me, and I think the thing that has been hardest for me to learn is the managing people part. When I was a young lawyer, a boss said to me, you know it is not the law that is so difficult Chris, it is the people. And it's true. And it has been tru...(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
