The Nature Forward mission is to inspire residents of the greater Washington, DC, region to appreciate, understand, and protect their natural environment through outdoor experiences, education, and advocacy.​ The Nature Forward vision is to create a larger and more diverse community of people who treasure the natural world and work to preserve it.

The mission of the Aldo Leopold Nature Center (ALNC) is to nurture children, their well-being, and environmental sustainability through connecting and learning in nature.

Our Mission is to connect children with the natural world to foster self-realization, cooperation and stewardship for our planet. All discoveries are explored within its environmental context, thus creating a foundational comprehension of the relationship between things. They gain the insight to realize entire systems and their interconnected, coherent nature. With either guidance or self-directed, they communicate feelings, thoughts, and intuition, build relationships, bring their ideas to life and test them and playfully or intentionally discover math, writing, language, art, movement, science and meditation.

Nature Vision fosters appreciation and stewardship of our environment by educating and connecting community to the world around us. We envision an inspired and connected culture where everyone makes choices for a sustainable future.