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Boosting Resilience to Trauma in New Jersey

How The Nicholson Foundation and our partners are taking steps to ensure children don't suffer physical, mental, and social damage over their lifetimes.

Boosting Resilience to Trauma in New Jersey

How The Nicholson Foundation and our partners are taking steps to ensure children don't suffer physical, mental, and social damage over their lifetimes.

Reimagining Child Care

With support from the Turrell Fund and The Nicholson Foundation, Reimagine Child Care is bringing together communities, policymakers, business leaders and caregivers to reimagine what child care could look like in New Jersey.

Reimagining Child Care

Closing Announcement from Jan Nicholson

The Nicholson Foundation announced that it has determined the timeline for fulfilling its plan to spend down. Watch the video of Jan Nicholson, President, announcing the close and offering an early thank-you to our many partners.

Closing Announcement from Jan Nicholson

About The Nicholson Foundation

The Nicholson Foundation is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of vulnerable populations in New Jersey. Learn more about how the Foundation is working to bring change to our five strategic focus areas.

About The Nicholson Foundation

Maternal Health Podcast Features Nicholson Staff Member and Doula Grantee

On Pregnancy, Parenting & Politics, Raquel Mazon Jeffers (left), Senior Program Officer at The Nicholson Foundation, and Ronsha Dickerson, Supervisor of Community Doulas of South Jersey, discuss how to decrease disparities in maternal and infant health.

Maternal Health Podcast Features Nicholson Staff Member and Doula Grantee

Taking Action to Achieve Equity in Maternal and Infant Health

The Nurture NJ Maternal and Infant Health Plan, funded by The Nicholson Foundation and Community Health Acceleration Partnership, aims to eliminate racial inequity in maternal and infant health.

Taking Action to Achieve Equity in Maternal and Infant Health

The Nurture NJ Maternal and Infant Health Plan, funded by The Nicholson Foundation and Community Health Acceleration Partnership, aims to eliminate racial inequity in maternal and infant health.

Our Mission

The Nicholson Foundation is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of vulnerable populations in New Jersey.

New & Noteworthy

New Jersey Unveils Nicholson Foundation-Funded Plan to Achieve Equity in Maternal and Infant Health

1.25.2021

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On Monday, January 25, New Jersey unveiled the Nurture NJ Maternal and Infant Health Plan, a groundbreaking strategy to eliminate racial inequity in maternal and infant health and cut in half the number of women who die each year in the state before or shortly after giving birth.

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Policy Brief: Balancing Family and Work During a Child’s First Years

1.14.2021

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In this brief, which accompanies the latest issue of the Future of Children journal, “Three Trimesters to Three Years: Promoting Early Development,” the authors make policy recommendations to promote the development of young children being raised in working families.

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The Nicholson Foundation Year in Review

12.21.2020

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As we near the end of 2020, we feel proud of what our grantees achieved in the face of extraordinary challenges over the past 12 months. It's also what makes us feel hopeful about the year to come.

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