Organizations Filed Purposes:
Facilitate committed and open partnerships and projects that enable habitats, species and cultures to thrive, and to provide sustainable economic activities that place equal value on income security, quality of life and the health of our shared environment.
LEAP's Forever Sabah (FS, foreversabah.org) 25 year initiative of a civil society supporting Sabah's transition to a diversified, equitable, living economy is now well rooted and is expanding in organic ways well beyond LEAP's 2019 general monetary nurturing of $136,546. The mushrooming sub-projects FS cultivates with these funds all ask: where will we be in 50 years? To help achieve a desirable answer, LEAP additionally targeted $20k each for two specific FS projects that will help mitigate present and future water wars: Freshwater For Future (FFF, foreversabah.org/freshwater-for-future-fff) and Lower Kinabatangan & Segama Wetlants (LKSW, foreversabah.org/copy-of-community-based-ecologicall). And with an additional targeted $49,625 in 2019 LEAP helped jump-start Human Elephant Harmony (HEH, foreversabah.org/copy-of-heh) to alleviate the as yet intractable problem of Human Elephant Conflict. More still, LEAP spent $9,212 purchasing HEH film equipment to assist Community Elephant Ranger Teams document wild elephant behavior for citizen science study and best practices harvesting. Since FS has developed so many synergistic legs to stand on, LEAP's USA salary apportioned cost for all this was only $22,363 (3/10ths our direct Program salary spending).
LEAP's Humans Habitats Highways coalition (HHH, humanshabitatshighways.org) initiated in 2017 in three disparate regions of Malasyian Borneo is now unmistakably benefiting national government transportation and environmental stewardship projects by involving local Subject Matter Experts and stakeholders in the early planning processes. Compared to prior contentious and protracted battles over road building, this informed community participation model has led to more cost-effective road progress and greater public support of ancillary development and conservation projects. For 2019, HHH expanded community collaboration projects based on lessons learned, and began developing consumables sharing best practices for greater Malaysia and other Southeast Asian nations. In addition to the USA revenue and granting in support of HHH, LEAP's USA salary apportioned cost tapered to $7,454 (1/10th our direct Program salary spending) as HHH is becoming self-igniting.
2019 saw LEAP investing in our collective future by supporting the KampOng Campus for Ecoliteracy and Leadership. Classrooms teach most of us, and most classrooms are a box that we learn to think in. KampOng now turns that box inside-out and incites learning on a planetary scale. Just as form follows function, KampOng's "floating meeting deck" with roof and adjustable wings for walls infuses every thought and idea with the reality of our planet. Words fail; pictures help. Search: KampOng Campus Webflow. Decisions born from such an environment will be planet-friendly and should help institutionalize LEAP's planetary approach to human development. This build out required the bigger half (6/10ths) of LEAP's USA salary apportioned Program cost at $44,727.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Cynthia Ong | Executive Director | 20 | $64,680 |
| Kenneth Wilson | Trustee | 15 | $24,000 |
| Marilyn Madsen | CFO | 5 | $6,591 |
| Mark Stafford | Administration | 10 | $2,400 |
| Daniel Kammen | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Caroline Gabel | President | 4 | $0 |
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public 990 form dataset) from:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/irs-form-990/202023219349324307_public.xml