The Leadership in Action Program (LAP) is a results-based public management project. It is a partnership of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Reason to Believe enterprise of Baltimore City, and RCLA. Through this program, leaders from all over Baltimore City have come together to plan for and take actions that will accelerate school readiness - in a measurable way - by November 2004. LAP strives to be a model program designed not only to strengthen the capacity for collaborative leadership among government, nonprofit, and community leaders, but to make a substantial impact on a condition of well-being - in this case, children in Baltimore City entering school better prepared to learn.