Grow Food Party Crew - Ventura

Vision

To provoke deep ecological consciousness for a healthier, sustainable Earth through global citizenship and stewardship by collaboratively inventing transformative processes which make known what can be known of our individual and collective history and legacy; so that healing, self-determination and a re-balancing can emerge from our shared despair, sorrow, hope and action, and generations of the future may be empowered.

Mission

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):
1. Community initiatives that seek to balance economic and ecological needs;
2. Collaborative restoration projects which integrate the needs of indigenous peoples, with the rights of animals, and lands to be protected in perpetuity;
3. Public awareness programs which teach the importance of nature conservation;
4. Cultural/educational engagement programs involving youth, students, interns, women, elders, families and others;
5. Conservation concession projects which allow land and animal habitat to regenerate.

Strategy

1. Identifying key and strategic projects and players, their needs and requirements;
2. 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;
3. Project management and facilitation for the above two, including reporting, monitoring and guiding;
4. Ongoing research, marketing, fund-raising, network-building, relationship-building, etc. to support and enable the above three;
5. Engendering trust in parties with whom we engage by valuing and maintaining integrity, accountability and transparency in our practices.

LEAP is currently focused on "eco-tipping point" projects and partnerships in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, including facilitating funding, community initiatives, collaborative environmental restoration, public awareness and cultural/educational engagement. Today we are engaged in about twelve projects between Borneo and the USA, in partnership with government agencies, NGOs, indigenous communities and private foundations.  Our work brings together disparate groups and encourages collaboration, transparency and mutual empowerment.

We consider ourselves a channel or conduit for resources and funding, and we raise our general operating funds separately from those going to groups and projects with whom we partner.  We have raised and channeled in the region of $2 million since our founding in 2005.




For a look at what we've accomplished and our areas of current focus, see our projects page at http://www.leapspiral.org/projects/ 


LEAP Malaysia • HC812, 8th Floor, Hawaii Court, Waikiki Condominium, Tanjung Aru, Kota Kinabalu 88100, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo • 6.088.270705