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PLAN Highlights

Over the past 14 years, volunteers and staff have received a variety of awards:

• Canadian Volunteer Award
• The B.C. Association of Broadcasters' Humanity Award
• The Canadian Centre for Philanthropy's New Spirit of Community Award
• The Civic Merit Award from the City of Vancouver
• The Community Living Institute's Leadership Award
• The Queen's Golden Jubilee Commemorative Medal
• The Architectural Institute of British Columbia Award for Community Service
• The Ashoka Award for Social Entrepreneurs and
• The Simon Fraser University President's Club
  Distinguished Community Leadership Award.

PLAN has two successful publications:

Safe and Secure - Six Steps to Creating a Personal Future Plan for People with Disabilities, Third Edition

A Good Life - For You and Your Relative with a Disability

In 1997, award-winning journalist André Picard, who spent a year studying
not-for-profit organizations, cited PLAN as a charity of the future; "on the cutting
edge of the revolutionary transformation taking place in Canada's voluntary sector."

In 1999, PLAN Institute for Citizenship and Disability, a registered not-for-profit charity, was created to respond to a growing interest from around the world in PLAN's work.

In 2001, the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia awarded PLAN a $2 million endowment fund to support people with disabilities.

On March 31, 2002 PLAN had:

4,018 subscribers
1,384 associates
89 lifetime members
84 networks
50 facilitators
12 full and part-time staff members.

As of September 30, 2002 PLAN had 12 affiliate organizations: Prince George Lifetime Networks Society, Okanagan Lifetime Networks Association, The Road Ahead Society (Calgary), Edmonton Regional Parent/Guardian Partnership Society, Lethbridge Association for Community Living, Regina & District Association for Community Living, WSEP Lifetime Networks (Montreal), Lifetime Networks Ottawa, Planned Lifetime Support Networks Port Elgin, Planned Lifetime Networks (Kitchener-Waterloo), Lifetime Ability Networks of Nova Scotia,
and LifeSPAN (Seattle).

In 2002, PLAN staff and volunteers conducted over 80 workshops across Canada, Australia, Scotland and the U.S.

In 2002, His Excellency John Ralston Saul C.C. was officially inaugurated as
PLAN's national patron.

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