This document is an explanation and guide for parties interested in implementing the ARUC-ES and RQRP-ES model of community-university research partnership. The model identifies a number of steps, beginning with the joint definition of the research problem or question and concluding in an evaluation of the research and partnership. The model then, does not address the role of pre-existing partnerships nor the conditions necessary to develop partnerships prior to the identification of a research problem (i.e. by implication partnerships form in response to a specific question or problem). The guide also identifies the entrenchment of partnership practices in the governance model as important to its success and details the organizational structure stemming from this principle and employed by ARUC-ES.