Jim Olsen
Development Director
After over three decades of service to not-for-profit institutions in South Dakota, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, Jim returned to Bloomington in 2019 to join the New Hope leadership team. Jim helps donors match their philanthropic objectives with community needs, and promotes strategic philanthropy to leverage the donor’s resources for maximum impact.
A Certified Fundraising Executive since 1999, Jim is an alumnus of Augustana University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Indiana University Bloomington and is a proud life member of the IU Alumni Association.