This report is a chronicle and analysis of the development of the Glades Community Development Corporation. GCDC is a local intermediary—an organization serving as catalyst and coach for comprehensive and sustainable community development. GCDC is dedicated to improving the quality of life in the Glades, an area encompassing three small cities and extensive farmland in South Florida. This report is the culmination of a project, begun in 1993, designed to document the progress made and challenges encountered by GCDC. Earlier reports provided an outside perspective for two audiences: the Board, staff, and other participants in GCDC activity, and the GCDC funders—the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Community Foundation of Palm Beach and Martin Counties, and, for the first several years, the Bernard van Leer Foundation. Unlike the internal documents generated previously, this report, made possible by generous additional support from the MacArthur and Mott Foundations, is intended to reach an audience that includes not only GCDC and its funders, but also members of the Glades community, practitioners and researchers involved in comprehensive community initiatives, and funders and policy makers with an interest in community development.