New Blog Series Highlights The Nicholson Foundation’s Legacy

The Nicholson Foundation worked for 20 years to advance meaningful change in the service systems designed to help New Jersey’s vulnerable populations. The Foundation closed its doors in December 2021, but its legacy lives on in its book Changing Systems, Changing Lives: Reflecting on 20 Years, which describes the Foundation’s history and work.

Now, through its blog, the Foundation has made it even easier for organizations and professionals engaged in similar work to access and benefit from the experience and results described in Changing Systems, Changing Lives.

One series of blogs, “Key Takeaways,” summarizes lessons the Foundation learned through its grantmaking on how to tackle important issues such as elevating best practices, finding and nurturing effective partnerships, and developing future leaders.

A blog series coming soon, “Framework for Systems Change,” highlights how the Foundation’s work is relevant to broad and diverse range of audiences—not only philanthropies, social service organizations, and government agencies, but also academicians, researchers, and practitioners. This series of blogs describe how the “Nicholson Model” exemplifies components of a new model for systems change published in 2023 in The Foundation Review by Drs. William Brown of Texas A&M University and Wynn Rosser, the new Texas Commissioner of Higher Education.

Future blogs, called “Then and Now,” will show how projects featured in Changing Systems, Changing Lives are continuing to thrive. The first two “Then and Now” blogs discuss the growing ecosystem of projects that emerged from the Foundation’s support of the Nurture NJ initiative. Nurture NJ is a multi-sector statewide campaign to transform care systems and dramatically improve maternal and infant health in New Jersey.

The Nicholson Foundation’s book Changing Systems, Changing Lives—is available to schools, organizations, and individuals. Visit www.thenicholsonfoundation.org/blog to order the book and view our blog.

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