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Past Recipients

Past Recipients

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  • 2008-2022

2025

PIRS

Riasat Ali Khan Diversity Award (Organization)
Pacific Immigrant Resources Society (PIRS)

Eva Aboud

Service Recognition Staff Award (Individual)
Eva Aboud, Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House

Katie Crocker

Transformative Leadership Award (Individual)
Katie Crocker, CEO at UNITI, former CEO at AMSSA

2024

PIRS

Riasat Ali Khan Diversity Award (Organization)
Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria (ICA) 

Eva Aboud

Service Recognition Staff Award (Individual)
Iris Solorzano (Options Community Services)

2023

PIRS

Riasat Ali Khan Diversity Award (Organization)
Kingdom Acts Foundation

Eva Aboud

Service Recognition Staff Award (Individual)
Abeer Smadi (VICCIR)

Katie Crocker

Service Recognition Volunteer Award (Individual)
Dacious Richardson

2008-2022

2022

  • Riasat Ali Khan Diversity Award (organization) 
    South Okanagan Immigrant and Community Services (SOICS)
  • Service Recognition Staff Award (Individual) 
    Carolyn Neilson (YWCA Metro Vancouver)
  • Service Recognition Volunteer Award (Individual) 
    Manjit Channa 

2021

Everyone won an award for resilience during COVID 

2020

  • Riasat Ali Khan Diversity Award (organization) 
    DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society (DCRS)
  • Service Recognition Staff Award (Individual) 
    Zarghoona Wakil (MOSAIC)

2019

  • Riasat Ali Khan Diversity Award (organization) 
    Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House
  • Service Recognition Staff Award (Individual) 
    Loren Balisky (Kinbrace Community Society)
  • Service Recognition Volunteer Award (Individual)
    Jim Tallman (Immigrant Services Society of BC)

2018

  • Riasat Ali Khan Diversity Award (organization) 
    Immigration and Multicultural Services Society
  • Service Recognition Staff Award (Individual) 
    Saleem Spindari, MOSAIC
  • Service Recognition Volunteer Award (Individual) 
    Mainu Ahmed (Muslim Food Bank and Community Services Society)

2017

  • Riasat Ali Khan Diversity Award (organization) 
    ISSofBC
  • Service Recognition Staff Award (Individual) 
    Amea Wilbur, Pacific Immigrant Resources Society

2016

  • Riasat Ali Khan Diversity Award (organization) 
    DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society
  • Service Recognition Staff Award (Individual) 
    Bayron Figueroa, Settlement Orientation Services
  • Service Recognition Volunteer Award (Individual) 
    Margot and Denny Brunt, Multicultural & Immigrant Services Association of North Vancouver Island (MISA)

2015

  • Riasat Ali Khan Diversity Award (organization) 
    MOSAIC
  • Service Recognition Staff Award (Individual) 
    Rajinder Lotay, Kamloops Cariboo Regional Immigrant Services
  • Service Recognition Volunteer Award (Individual) 
    Jason Jones, Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria

2014

  • Riasat Ali Khan Diversity Award (organization) 
    Multicultural and Immigration Services Association of North Vancouver Island
  • Service Recognition Staff Award (Individual) 
    Saša Loggin, Skeena Diversity Society
  • Service Recognition Volunteer Award (Individual) 
    Resham Dosanjh, Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society

2013

  • Riasat Ali Khan Diversity Award (organization) 
    Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria
  • Service Recognition Staff Award (Individual) 
    Shashi Assanand, Vancouver and Lower Mainland Multicultural Family Support Services
  • Service Recognition Volunteer Award (Individual) 
    Staff Sergeant Douglas Newman, Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria

2012

  • Riasat Ali Khan Diversity Award (organization) 
    DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society
  • Service Recognition Staff Award (Individual) 
    Baljit Sethi, Immigrant and Multicultural Services Society
  • Service Recognition Volunteer Award (Individual) 
    Wendy Lau, South Vancouver Neighbourhood House

2011

  • Riasat Ali Khan Diversity Award (organization) 
    South Okanagan Immigrant and Community Services
  • Service Recognition Staff Award (Individual) 
    Joan Haack, Immigrant and Multicultural Services Society
  • Service Recognition Volunteer Award (Individual) 
    Nirmal Parmar, Skeena Diversity Society

2010

  • Riasat Ali Khan Diversity Award (organization) 
    Impact North Shore
  • Service Recognition Staff Award (Individual) 
    Hilma LaBelle, South Okanagan Immigrant and Community Services
  • Service Recognition Volunteer Award (Individual) 
    Marguerite Egan, Immigrant Services Society of BC

2009

  • Riasat Ali Khan Diversity Award (organization) 
    Central Vancouver Island Multicultural Society
  • Service Recognition Staff Award (Individual) 
    Terre Flower, Central Vancouver Island Multicultural Society
  • Service Recognition Volunteer Award (Individual) 
    Mavis De Girolamo, Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria

2008

  • Riasat Ali Khan Diversity Award (organization) 
    DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society
  • Service Recognition Staff Award (Individual) 
    Jean Maloney, Pacific Immigrant Resources Society
  • Service Recognition Volunteer Award (Individual) 
    Jane Dickson, Terrace and District Multicultural Association

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