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Gian F. Brosco, Esq.
President
gian.brosco@nevadacf.org
A recognized philanthropic leader and adviser in strategic philanthropy, Gian Brosco is the president of the Nevada Community Foundation. Hired in 2008, Gian is responsible for providing the vision and oversight of the Foundation. Prior to joining the Nevada Community Foundation, Gian served as vice president for the Philanthropic Management Group of U.S. Trust/ Bank of America in Providence, Rhode Island, providing counsel to institutional and private clients and serving as an expert for Bank of America on the subjects of philanthropy, planned giving, investment policy, and fiduciary and tax matters. Gian's expertise in the philanthropic sector started with his role as senior development officer and gift planning adviser for The Rhode Island Foundation, one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the country. An experienced estate planning attorney, Gian received his Bachelor of Arts in English from Georgetown University and completed his Juris Doctor from the New England School of Law in 1990. He is admitted to the Bars in Rhode Island and Texas, the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. Supreme Court and is a member of the Tax-Exempt Organization Committee of the American Bar Association.
Keith Latham
Director of Finance
keith.latham@nevadacf.org
A resident of Las Vegas for more than 63 years, Keith graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno, with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business and a major in accounting. He spent eighteen years with Clark County as Business Manager in the Department of Aviation, as Assistant Clark County Treasurer and as Clark County Treasurer. Additionally, he served as Chief Finance Officer for eleven years with the Economic Opportunity Board of Clark County. Keith is married and has four sons and two stepsons.
Cyndy Ortiz Gustafson
Strategic Advisor
cyndy@strategicprogress.com
Cyndy Ortiz Gustafson is a native Nevadan and a graduate of Washington State University, where she received a Masters Degree in Political Science with an emphasis in Public Law. Cyndy received a full Graduate Fellowship with the Women's Research and Education Institute to spend a year in Washington, D.C. working in the United States Senate for Senator Dianne Feinstein from California. She has worked for the Oregon State University Foundation, served as a Ways and Means Committee Attache in the Nevada State Legislature and testified before the Nevada State Legislature. She has also served as the Agency Relations Manager for the United Way of Southern Nevada, where she ran the Accreditation Process for the Las Vegas Valley. As Principal of Strategic Progress, LLC, Cyndy provides strategic organizational and fund development consulting, as well as government and public affairs consulting to her clients, which include Nevada Public Radio, St. Rose Dominican Hospitals, St. Jude's Ranch for Children, the Clark County Office of the Regional Homeless Coordinator, and nationally, Robert F. Kennedy Jr's Waterkeeper Alliance.
Jennifer Ouellette
Strategic Advisor
jennifer.ouellette@gmail.com
Jennifer Ouellette brings valuable quantitative analysis expertise to her work with the Nevada Community Foundation. A graduate of the University of Southern California with a Masters Degree in Accounting and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance from the University of Nevada,Las Vegas, Jennifer has more than eight years' experience as a consultant with national and local financial advisory firms, including Pricewaterhouse Coopers and Applied Analysis. Currently engaged in social services systems reform for the child welfare, juvenile justice, and K-12 educational systems, Jennifer also works with the Nevada Community Foundation on a systems evaluation project on behalf of the Clark County Office of the Regional Homeless Coordinator. She is a graduate of the 2009 class of Leadership Las Vegas and the 2010 Duke University Nonprofit Management Program.
Jane Ramos
Executive Assistant
jane.ramos@nevadacf.org
Jane is the newest member to the Foundation's management team. She has over ten years' experience in management and administrative functions for executive leadership. She has extensive experience in both corporate and not for profit environments and has assisted a variety of C-level executives and senior management. Her recent experience in the nonprofit sector includes serving as the Executive Assistant to the CEO for Gilda's Club Worldwide, a New York City-based national cancer support organization founded by actor Gene Wilder in memory of his late wife, comedian Gilda Radner, and Boys Hope Girls Hope of Nevada, a year-round residential academic program for at-risk children ages 10 to 18. Jane holds a BA in Industrial Psychology from the University of St. Tomas in the Philippines. She and her husband have recently made Las Vegas their home, having moved from New York City.
Stacey Wedding
Strategic Advisor
swedding@profinphil.com
A native Nevadan, Stacey Wedding boasts 15 years of high level experience in philanthropy, and is often referred to as “the go to source” in Southern Nevada for anything philanthropic. She worked on the executive management team of the Nevada Community Foundation for seven years before she established Professionals in Philanthropy, LLC, a boutique philanthropic advising firm, in 2006. Her firm provides organizational development, customized training, strategic planning and strategic advising to a variety of philanthropies (family foundations, corporate giving programs, individual philanthropists) and nonprofit organizations. Some of her current and past clients include the Ritter Charitable Trust, Nevada Women’s Philanthropy, NV Energy, Boyd Gaming Corporation, Three Square, Goodwill of Southern Nevada, Camp To Belong International and Spread the Word Nevada—just to name a few. Stacey holds a B.A. in Communications from UNLV, where she graduated summa cum laude from the Honors College. She also received the prestigious Board of Regents UNLV Undergraduate Scholar of the Year Award and later was awarded the 2004 Outstanding Alumnus Award for her support of the Honors College. She is a proud graduate of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce's Leadership Las Vegas Class of 2003.
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