Dear Friends and Colleagues, I’m excited to share a new report published by the Engagement Lab called Community Academic Research Partnership in Digital Contexts: Opportunities, Limitations, and New Ways to Promote Mutual Benefit <https://elabhome.blob.core.windows.net/resources/mou.pdf>. Emerging directly from our work with Boston Civic Media <https://bostoncivic.media>, this report provides an overview of the concerns, values, and roles of digital data and communications in community-academic research partnerships from the perspectives of Community Partner Organizations (CPOs). It also contains an MOU template with a suggested series of prompts for the researcher and community group to arrive at a set of mutual interests, shared decision-making practices, and an agreed-upon understanding of data ownership practices. All in all, our hope is that this report and the MOU template serves as a useful resource for practitioners seeking productive ways to manage research partnerships in the digital age, and as a launching pad for future research focusing on the perspectives of CPOs. You can read and download the full report here: <https://elab.emerson.edu/projects/civic-media-practice> https://elab.emerson.edu/projects/mou. Best, Eric