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.
For the Wallace Foundation, we think about - our value proposition is really that we can develop and share effective ideas and practices. And we do that in three specific areas. Educational leadership, out-of-school-time learning, and arts participation. But we have come to realize that in each o...(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
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