When the author accepted a job with the Bayview Hunters Point YMCA as the director of the Beacon Center on the campus of Burton High School in San Francisco, she found out that New Day for Learning (NDL), an initiative that helps schools implement the community schools model, had chosen Burton as a pilot site. The author had heard that community schools used community partners to help deliver programs and services to increase educational success for young people. In her experience, Beacon-school partnerships worked similarly: the school focused on academic success during instructional time and partnered with the Beacon through a community-based organization (CBO) to deliver out-of-school time programs for both youth and adults after dismissal. Additionally, Beacons are charged specifically with turning schools into community hubs that not only bring people to the school site but also participate actively in community life. As the Burton-Beacon story illustrates, the community schools model works best if the parties involved do more than collaborate. The most impressive and replicable outcomes will be achieved if the participants "power share".