The Erickson Educational Foundation's stated goals were "to provide assistance and support in areas where human potential was limited by adverse physical, mental or social conditions, or where the scope of research was too new, controversial or imaginative to receive traditionally oriented support." The EEF funded many early research efforts, including the creation of the Harry Benjamin Foundation, and the opening of the first North American gender clinic at Johns Hopkins. It developed and maintained an extensive referral list of service providers throughout the US and in several other locales. The EEF sponsored public addresses, educational films, radio and television appearances, and newspaper articles bringing transsexualism to the attention of the public. In addition, the EEF also published informative quarterly newsletters, educational pamphlets, and books. Furthermore, the EEF was instrumental in organizing several of the earliest international conferences on transsexualism which later evolved into the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).