Control Over The Chaos: A Conversation with Andrew Olsen

Andrew Olsen is a best selling author, popular podcaster, speaker, and nonprofit marketer who has guided over 500 nonprofits in raising more than half a billion dollars. Over the years, he has built and led fundraising programs on behalf of organizations ranging from Covenant House International to CARE USA, and dozens of Rescue Missions and Food Banks across the U.S. and Canada. Today, he serves as Senior Vice President of Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker & Associates, leading the firm’s major gift consulting practice, overseeing the Impact Messaging division, and with responsibility for developing and launching new products and services for the firm. In our conversation, he takes us on the journey from the rough neighborhood and tough times of his LA childhood to farm country in Tennessee with his family and menagerie of 227 animals and counting.