{"id":586,"date":"2025-03-06T02:17:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T02:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenicholsonfoundation.org\/blog\/?p=586"},"modified":"2025-04-15T21:32:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T21:32:01","slug":"the-foundation-review-highlights-the-nicholson-model-and-brings-foundations-work-to-new-audiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenicholsonfoundation.org\/blog\/the-foundation-review-highlights-the-nicholson-model-and-brings-foundations-work-to-new-audiences\/","title":{"rendered":"The Foundation Review Highlights the \u201cNicholson Model\u201d and Brings the Foundation\u2019s Work to New Audiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 2023 paper in the journal <em>The Foundation Review<\/em> is helping to make the Nicholson Foundation\u2019s grant-making approach accessible to a broad new audience of researchers, academics, and philanthropists.<\/p>\n<p>The Nicholson Foundation worked to advance meaningful change in safety net service systems by engaging with state and local government agencies\u2014the main drivers of social support systems. It also worked hand-in-hand with nonprofit service providers and other non-governmental organizations. The goal was to augment or change systems so the services they provide to individuals, families, and communities are more accessible, more effective, and work in complementary ways.<\/p>\n<p>The Foundation\u2019s journey is described in the book <em>Changing Systems, Changing Lives: Reflecting on 20 Years<\/em>. Drs. William Brown of Texas A&#038;M University and Wynn Rosser of the T. L. L. Temple Foundation adapted and expanded the Foundation\u2019s approach in their <em>Foundation Review<\/em> paper \u201cA Framework for Creating Systems Change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown and Rosser used the Foundation\u2019s guiding themes to construct the \u201cNicholson Model,\u201d a new model for systems change that shows how the Foundation\u2019s work aligns with concepts from existing literature and practice. Five of the model\u2019s seven components reflect themes in Changing Systems, Changing Lives: Reflecting on 20 Years:Brown and Rosser used the Foundation\u2019s guiding themes to construct the \u201cNicholson Model,\u201d a new model for systems change that shows how the Foundation\u2019s work aligns with concepts from existing literature and practice. Five of the model\u2019s seven components reflect themes in <em>Changing Systems, Changing Lives: Reflecting on 20 Years<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-blog-style\">\n<li>Nurturing partnerships<\/li>\n<li>Elevating best practices and building evidence<\/li>\n<li>Building organizational capacity<\/li>\n<li>Developing future leaders<\/li>\n<li>Using multiple and complementary strategies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The sixth component slightly shifts the emphasis of the Foundation\u2019s \u201cEngaging with Government\u201d theme, and the seventh highlights the Foundation\u2019s overall approach by including performance measurement as a distinct and separate component of the model.<\/p>\n<p>Together, <em>Changing Systems, Changing Lives: Reflecting on 20 Years<\/em> and \u201cA Framework for Creating Systems Change\u201d provide important new resources for scholars, funders, and practitioners. Better approaches for delivering effective and equitable human services are needed, and these two works show how to successfully apply the \u201cNicholson Model\u201d in communities.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin-top:30px; margin-bottom:30px;\"class=\"red-line\">\n<p><span style=\"color:#215387; font-weight:bold;\">Receive a free copy or download<\/span> <em>Changing Systems, Changing Lives: Reflecting on 20 Years<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color:#215387; font-weight:bold; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/thenicholsonfoundation.org\/blog\/changing-systems-changing-lives-book-request\/\">Visit The Nicholson Foundation\u2019s blog<\/a> series to learn more about how the Foundation\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color:#215387; font-weight:bold; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/scholarworks.gvsu.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1678&#038;context=tfr\">Read Brown W, Rosser W. \u201cA Framework for Creating Systems Change.\u201d<\/a> The Foundation Review,<br \/>\n2023;15(4):50-6.<\/p>\n<p>For all other inquiries, click here to send an <a style=\"color:#215387; font-weight:bold; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"mailto:lmaher@graphicimagery.com\">email<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 2023 paper in the journal The Foundation Review is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenicholsonfoundation.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenicholsonfoundation.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenicholsonfoundation.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenicholsonfoundation.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenicholsonfoundation.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thenicholsonfoundation.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/thenicholsonfoundation.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenicholsonfoundation.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenicholsonfoundation.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenicholsonfoundation.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenicholsonfoundation.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}