Steve Gross is currently a Senior Director in Institutional Advancement and Planned Giving & Endowments at the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) for the past 10 years. He brings a broad range of development and financial services experience to nonprofit boards and is no stranger to Jewish Family Services. Steve was the past Treasurer then President of JFS of Greenwich, CT, and recently moved to Fort Collins. He worked at various commercial and investment banks giving him the opportunity to acquire a wide-ranging knowledge of Wall Street and its financial markets both in the public and private sectors.
Prior to joining JFNA, Steve worked at Save the Children in their philanthropic services group dealing with private banks, donor-advised funds, and diaspora giving. A native New Yorker, Steve completed an executive leadership program at Columbia University’s Institute for Not-for-Profit Management, received his MBA in finance from Adelphi University, and a BA in psychology from Binghamton University. He has been active in the community as an elected official for his district, served on several nonprofit and town boards, and is also immediate past board president for a nonprofit human services foundation which he helped establish.