This paper, by the White House Council on Community Solutions, is one of a series of resources developed to address one of the Council’s key priorities: “every American community will have the knowledge and tools at hand to create successful local ‘collaboratives’ that are designed to catalyze large-scale change and address their most pressing community challenges.”   It profiles examples from across the U.S. to that demonstrate that "a growing number of effective multi-sector collaboratives - proof points for success – are showing the way." The examples illustrate that, through collaboration, more CAN be done achieved to generate powerful solutions to a range of challenging issues. The paper also identifies five elements of success within high impact community collaborative initiatives and also five elements that community collaboratives need to thrive.