Thank you for your nominations for Art of Listening, Art of Reporting, and Art of Novel Partnership awards. We are excited to receive a wide range of wonderful nominations. We'll contact all awards winners and nominators in January with the results of selection process.

Art of Novel Partnership promotes collaboration that models systems transformation. The partnership includes individuals, families, and communities from various stakeholder groups: disease-specific organizations, healthcare professionals, community-based organizations, academia, industry, government, laboratories, and others. The partnership demonstrates willingness to create open space for shared resources that ultimately lead to better health for all – through accelerated research and development, innovative community engagement, technological savvy, and more.

Art of Listening honors a health professional who is a caring, receptive professional in the lives of individuals and families living with genetic conditions.

Art of Reporting acknowledges a media professional whose reporting contributes to public awareness and understanding about genetic advancements or advocacy organizations and their impact on real people’s lives.

Nominee Evaluation Guidelines

Art of Listening - honors a health professional who is a caring, receptive professional in the lives of individuals and families living with genetic conditions. Someone who: - Takes the time to listen and understand--beyond the medical diagnosis (25 points) - Understands the importance of listening as an invaluable key to understanding and helping and so a number of families and individuals offer testimony (25 points) - Eases the difficult, often frustrating, journey faced by individuals and families dealing with the uncertainties and ambiguities of a genetic condition (25 points) - Appreciates the power of advocacy organizations (25 points) Art of Reporting - acknowledges a media professional whose reporting contributes to public awareness and understanding about genetic advancements or advocacy organizations and their impact on real people’s lives. Someone who has: - Produced an especially powerful print or broadcast piece that builds public awareness of genetics or genetic conditions (20 points) - Worked together with an advocacy organization to produce the piece (20points) - Was accurate in their representation of the condition and the science (20 points) - Models excellence in reporting, exemplifying the compassion and caring that is so important in explaining and reporting on genetic conditions (20 points) - Contributes to public awareness and understanding about genetic advancements and their impact on real people's lives (10 points) - Heightens awareness of the fine line between education and exploitation and of the sensitivities that surround writing about people with genetic conditions (10 points) - Was accurate in their representation of the condition and the science (5 points) Art of Novel Partnership - promotes collaboration that models systems transformation. The partnership includes individuals, families, and communities from various stakeholder groups: disease-specific organizations, healthcare professionals, community-based organizations, academia, industry, government, laboratories, and others. The partnership demonstrates willingness to create open space for shared resources that ultimately lead to better health for all – through accelerated research and development, innovative community engagement, technological savvy, and more. Someone who has: - Includes formal, contractual relationships among at least 3 of multiple stakeholder groups* (25 points) - Shows evidence that all partners fully participate in project or product planning and execution (25 points) - Models systems transformation – the project is innovative and improves a system through the partnership (35 points) - Demonstrates open space among partners and externally through the collaboration’s project or product (15 points)

The 2010 Genetic Alliance Award Winners will be announced in February 2010.

Winners will be honored during the 2010 Genetic Alliance Annual Conference - Advancing Novel Partnerships, at the Annual Awards Dinner on Saturday, July 17, 2010 at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center.