Since October 2003, Meridian Institute has been involved in a number of additional nanotechnology related activities. Meridian Institute organized and facilitated two meetings at the request of The Rockefeller Foundation. The first meeting took place at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York, New York in October 2003 and the second in November 2004. These were small informational meetings about nanotechnology for the senior leadership of the Foundation, including President Gordon Conway and the Directors of the Global Inclusion, Food Security, and Health Equities Programs. The meetings were not intended to signal a new area of grant making for the Foundation. Rather, they were intended to inform senior leadership at the Foundation about this rapidly developing issue. Presentations and discussions focused on helping foundation staff understand the implications of nanotechnology for areas of historic importance to the Foundation, including agriculture and health. For more information on The Rockefeller Foundation, please visit: http://www.rockfound.org.

On 28 October 2004, Meridian Institute facilitated the first meeting of the International Council on Nanotechnology (ICON) at Rice University in Houston, Texas. ICON's mission is to assess, communicate and reduce the environmental and health risks of nanotechnology. It is a multi-stakeholder group dedicated to research, policy and communication regarding nanotechnology's impacts on human health and the environment. For more information on ICON, please visit: http://icon.rice.edu/.

In January 2006, Meridian Institute facilitated a meeting of the International Risk Governance Council's (IRGC) Nanotechnology Project. The overall aim of the workshop was to establish concrete, practical recommendations for national and international risk assessment and management frameworks for nanotechnology. The meeting was designed to contribute to the overall objectives of the Nanotechnology Project, which include: 1) agree on a common framework for governance of certain nanotechnology risks; 2) make risk management and policy recommendations to national and international decision makers, in particular regarding transboundary issues; and 3) focus on a small selection of passive and active nanostructures that may pose a human health and/or environmental risk. The meeting was held at the Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue in Switzerland. For more information on IRGC, please visit: http://www.irgc.org.