Fellow listers: I am chairing a panel discussion on collaboration & partnerships for the upcoming state museum conference and thought I would enlist your help. Please share a story, happy or sad, success or failure, about collaborations with other instiutions. They need not be other museums--if you collaborated with a business or another not-for-profit--I would like to hear that story too. And finally, what are the two or three biggest factors in creating succesful collaborations/partnerships? What are the biggest factors that lead to their failur (or rather I should say "lack of success")? You can reply to the list or to me personally at [log in to unmask] Thanks for your help. I can't wait to hear your stories! Jay Smith Executive Director Reno County Museum Hutchinson, Kansas