About LEAP
M I S S I O N
To serve and support the following areas of work (with an initial and primary focus on bridging between endeavors in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo and the U.S.A):
- Community initiatives that seek to balance economic and ecological needs;
- Collaborative restoration projects which integrate the needs of indigenous peoples, with the rights of animals, and lands to be protected in perpetuity;
- Public awareness programs which teach the importance of nature conservation;
- Cultural/educational engagement programs involving youth, students, interns, women, elders, families and others;
- Conservation concession projects which allow land and animal habitat to regenerate.
S T R A T E G Y
- Identifying key and strategic projects and players, their needs and requirements;
- Seeking partners, and matching and bridging them to the projects and players, in areas of funding, expertise, resource- connection, etc., with the objective of fulfilling needs and requirements on all sides;
- Project management and facilitation for the above two, including reporting, monitoring and guiding;
- Ongoing research, marketing, fund-raising, network-building, relationship-building, etc. to support and enable the above three;
- Engendering trust in parties with whom we engage by valuing and maintaining integrity, accountability and transparency in our practices.
