This volume offers a variety of examples of long-term collaborative efforts within schools that began with external funding. Articles include: (1) "Lessons from a Long-Term Collaboration," (Lindsay M. Wright and Rona Middleberg); (2) "Creating Structural Change: Best Practices," (Janet E. Lieberman); (3) "An Urban Intervention That Works: The Bronx Corridor of Success," (Michael C. Gillespie); (4) "The Role of Rural Community Colleges in Expanding Access and Economic Development," (Hector Garza and Ronald D. Eller); (5) "The Partnership Paradigm: Collaboration and the Community College," (Sara Lundquist and John S. Nixon); (6) "The Collaborative Leader," (Carolyn Grubbs Williams); (7) "Building Local Partnerships: Contributions of a National Center," (Barbara Schaier-Peleg and Richard A. Donovan); (8) "Funding Collaboratives," (L. Steven Zwerling); (9) "No Pain, No Gain: The Learning Curve in Assessing Collaboratives," (Laura I. Rendon, Wendy L. Gans, and Mistalene D. Calleroz); and (10) "Sources and Information: Community Colleges and Collaboration," (Erika Yamasaki). As the contributors to this volume emphasize, collaboration must be understood both as a distinctive process and as a particular type of interorganizational structure. (AS)