Bachelor's degree attainment for community college transfer students is one underutilized but essential pathway for reducing equity gaps in higher education. One way to achieve this at scale is through state-level initiatives dedicated to supporting transfer from community colleges to not-for-profit independent colleges. The Teagle Foundation and the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations' "Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts" initiative aims to create such pathways in 20 states in the next five years. This playbook draws on the experience of grantees building pathways in six states to design, implement, and sustain a successful statewide transfer initiative. It is meant to serve as a guide for independent four-year institutions--and their state or regional associations--seeking to increase community college transfer and completion on a sector-wide or consortial basis and in a manner that can be scaled to all community colleges in their state. This playbook is designed to help independent colleges: (1) Engage in collective goal setting for the initiative; (2) Establish an infrastructure to support the initiative; and (3) Adopt a strategy for sustaining the transfer initiative for the long term.