The addition of two new professionals to the staff of the United Jewish Federation of Princeton Mercer Bucks is paving the way for a productive new synergy between the federation and its endowment arm, the Jewish Community Foundation, said Andrew Frank.

“By bringing on two new people simultaneously, we’re taking an agency-wide look at working together in a more seamless, coordinated fashion,” said Frank, who serves as executive director of both the federation and the JCF. “I feel we’re going to be able to blend the work of the federation and the foundation into positive developments for the community of Princeton Mercer Bucks.”

The new staff members are Janis Oolie Glasberg, associate campaign director for the federation, and Caryn Tomljanovich, director of the JCF. Both have been on board since early October.

Glasberg brings to her new role a lifelong commitment to the federated Jewish world.

“I grew up in North Caldwell in a federation family,” Glasberg said during an interview in her new office. She noted that her father, Sam Oolie, was president of the MetroWest Jewish federation in the late 1980s, and her mother, Marjorie Oolie, was very active in that federation’s Women’s Division.

“I grew up in a family that was very Zionistic and very charitable — a family where the federation address was very central and very important,” she said. “Fund-raising is in my blood.”

As a teen, Glasberg was the director of social action for her youth group at Temple Sholom of West Essex in Cedar Grove, and she was later active with the Ben Gurion Society of UJA-Federation of New York. After graduating from Simmons College in Boston with a degree in management, she spent several years as a product manager for upscale department stores in New York, Miami, and Short Hills.

But in the year 2000, Glasberg said, “I decided I had had a long enough retail career, and Jewish communal service was where I wanted to be.”

Since then, her career has included a yearlong stretch as director of the synagogue campaign for State of Israel Bonds in Livingston and two years as a campaign professional with the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey in Wayne. In 2003, when that federation merged with the federation in Bergen County to become the UJA Federation of Northern New Jersey, Glasberg became director of the community campaign and the young leadership division for the new agency — a post she held until just recently. A newlywed, she lives in Pennington with her husband, Jeff, a financial adviser for Merrill Lynch, and their blended family — Kylie, 10, Lauren, six, and Matthew, four.

“I guess I felt it was my time to give back to the community,” Glasberg said. “I felt I was ready to give back and to be an influential part of the community and to help educate people to feel the way I feel about federation.”

In her new role, Glasberg said, she will be responsible, first and foremost, for the life and strength of the federation’s annual campaign. “I’m really excited about the new challenge,” she said. “There’s great lay leadership and a great staff here, and I’m really excited to help grow the campaign here — to help build community and help build the campaign. I think they go hand in hand.”