Local Efficiency Achievement Program (LEAP) - Challenge Grant (NJ)

Local Efficiency Achievement Program (LEAP) - Challenge Grant (NJ)

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: State of New Jersey Department of Community Affairs
Amount: Up to US $150,000
Last Updated: December 27, 2025

Summary

Overview

Please find the additional associated grants related to this opportunity - Here is the County Shared Services Coordinator Grant. Here is the Implementation Grant page. Local Efficiency Achievement Program (LEAP) In 2019, DLGS established the Local Assistance Bureau (LAB) to provide direct support to local government entities in a variety of ways. This includes a key collaboration with the Czars and local governments to identify and implement shared services opportunities across the state. The Local Efficiency Achievement Program (LEAP) is a natural extension of this mission. The LEAP affords an unprecedented opportunity to incentivize shared services implementation across New Jersey’s local government entities, advancing the mission of the Shared Services Program. The LEAP facilitates exploring and establishing shared services. The LEAP provides counties, municipalities, school districts, commissions, authorities, and fire districts assistance for the study or implementation of promising shared services projects undertaken pursuant to the Uniform Shared Service and Consolidation Act. The program is available to all New Jersey local government entities. Challenge Grant (NJ) Allocates funds to the most compelling projects in potentially each of New Jersey’s twenty-one counties, affording municipalities, authorities, and counties the opportunity to compete for grant funding to support efficiency-generating shared services. This grant program is designed to promote innovation among peer communities and counties across New Jersey, and challenge municipalities and counties to collaborate on more extensive partnerships that produce shared services of greater significance than is customary. Funding Funding in the amount of $150,000 is available within each New Jersey County. Up to three (3) grants per county may be awarded.

Eligibility

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