Through the organizations it has helped found, guide and support, NNF has advanced a variety of causes that help address the long term problem of attaining sustainable development.

With NNF's support, Earth Pledge has promoted innovative technologies that facilitate a transition to sustainability, including green roofs that mitigate some of the environmental impacts of buildings, anaerobic digestion, which provides a way to manage food waste in urban areas and produce renewable energy, and local sustainable agriculture techniques.

With NNF's help, NNYN entered into a strategic alliance with City University of New York which resulted in the creation of a course at CUNY devoted to nature in New York, and culminated in the founding of a new institute, the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities. With the assistance of NNF, NNYN also created books and supporting educational materials, including one published by National Geographic that teaches about the nature in and around New York. Finally, with NNF's help, NNYN commissioned a major transit report that was overseen by Institute of Rational Mobility on balancing free mass transit with congestion pricing in New York City.

NNF has also more recently assisted in the establishment of two new entities, which are in formation. The first of these is the Kheel Center on Resolution of Environmental Interest Disputes which will be dedicated to assisting law students, lawyers and law associations as well as corporate and individual members of the public on the resolution of environmental "interest" disputes, that is, disputes that can only be resolved by agreement or voluntary consent as distinguished from "rights" disputes which address violations of environmental laws through litigation.

The other new entity NNF is helping to form is a nonprofit named the The Nurture Nature Center, which will be located in Easton, Pennsylvania, and will include, along with other undertakings, unique exhibits and programs addressing the urgent problem of flooding along our waterways.

To read about Robert Rauschenberg and the Environmental Crisis, or to purchase the catalog for the exhibit on that subject, click here. To purchase Rauschenberg art prints, with the proceeds going to NNF, click here.