Our mission is to promote the strategies that build healthy communities for pets and people and to recognize those who achieve success.
The Summit Awards are focused on recognizing those within communities and within the companion animal value chain who are achieving success. The Summit Awards are presented annually by the Summit Alumni using an academy style system of nominations and election by secret ballot for each category. You will notice that many Summit Awards are focused on the value delivery area of the value chain (pink ring):
The value delivery area of the companion animal value chain is further divided into four sub-sectors which are used to determine the merit basis of some of the Summit Awards. These sub-sectors are:
Animal Control & Legislative Enforcement: includes bylaw enforcement agencies, licensing agencies and municipal agencies whose primary focus is to protect people from animals.
Animal Welfare: includes humane societies, SPCA's and rescue groups whose primary focus is to protect animals from people.
Animal Health & Wellness: includes veterinary clinics, emergency hospitals, behaviour, chiropractic and therapeutic services and other service providers that focus on the health and wellness of animals.
Animal Services: includes all those service providers and value deliverers such as retailers, breeders, kennels, groomers, media, daycare and other services which are required by people and the animals they care for.
We are pleased to provide the 2010 Summit Awards Program with three new categories: retailer, recovery and compliance. With the addition of these new awards we will be able to paint a better picture of excellence throughout the entire companion animal industry.
2010 summit award categories
The Summit Awards are not automatically granted on an annual basis. Summit Awards are presented when at least one nominee meets the Award criteria, as determined by the Summit Awards Committee.
nomination procedureThe Summits are intended to convey the recognition of peers from within the companion animal industry. Stakeholders of the industry are invited to review and compete for the various Summit Awards. Each organization must be nominated by an existing member of the Summit for Urban Animal Strategies Alumni or a sponsoring organization.
award presentationThe Summits are presented by a representative from the sponsoring organization at the International Summit for Urban Animal Strategies Awards Gala. The award winning nominee may not be notified in advance of this presentation.
selection processNominations are reviewed by the Summit Awards Committee to ensure they meet the established criteria. Eligible nominations are presented to the ISUAS Alumni. In an academy-style process, the ISUAS Alumni vote independently by secret ballot for the nominee most deserving of the award. There were approximately 160 Alumni eligible to vote for the 2009 Summits.
award submission deadline
Submissions for all award category must be received by September 7th. Anyone experiencing technical difficulties, kindly call Judi Cannon directly at 705.930.7387