QL+ Chairman Featured in USAA Report Promoting Members ‘Doing The Right Thing’
McLean, Virginia & San Luis Obispo, California (March 26, 2010)—Quality of Life Plus (QL+) and its Founder and Chairman, Jon Monett, are featured in the recently released USAA 2009 Report to Members, a multimedia presentation that highlights members who are “Doing The Right Thing”.
QL+ is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that generates research and development of prosthetics and other innovative assistive devices to aid and improve the quality of life of men and women who were injured in the line of duty while serving in the U.S. military, in the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement services, and in other national agencies. QL+ funds the QL+ Laboratory at the College of Engineering at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) in San Luis Obispo, California, where students and faculty work collaboratively to identify and build solutions that improve the lives of America’s wounded patriots.
Last year, Mr. Monett, a longtime resident of McLean, Virginia, and a 1964 industrial engineering alumnus of Cal Poly, founded QL+. He is an Air Force veteran and served 26 years as a senior executive in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Mr. Monett has been a USAA member since 1960.
The two-and-a-half-minute QL+ video segment—titled “Improving Lives”—was distributed last week via e-mail to USAA members. QL+ has established a link to the video on the homepage of its recently redesigned web site, www.qlplus.org. QL+ was one of only two nonprofit organizations featured in the video portion of the USAA Annual Report.
“[QL+ is] trying to come up with a solution that doesn’t exist out there, so the keyword to me is ‘innovation’,” Mr. Monett said in the video. “In some of our cases [QL+ students and faculty] may solve one problem for one person; in other cases we may solve one problem for one person that turns out to be a solution for a lot of people.”
Mr. Monett continued: “Those of us who try to do the right thing don’t think about doing the right thing, we just do it. You want to set an example. You want to leave behind a legacy that will continue, and our little niche of improving the quality of life of those who are injured in the service of their country—which to me is important—to me, it is what it is all about.”
USAA is a member-owned Fortune 500 company that serves members of the military and their families. The company was founded in 1922 by a group of U.S. Army officers. Unable to secure auto insurance due to the perception that they were a high-risk group, the officers chose to self-insure each other. Today USAA serves more than 7.3 million members, including members of all the Armed Forces, as well as their family members. It offers a range of financial products, including property and casualty insurance, banking, life insurance, and investment and financial planning products and services.
About Quality of Life Plus (QL+)
QL+ (www.qlplus.org) generates research and development of prosthetics and other innovative assistive devices that improve the quality of life for those injured in the line of duty. This includes men and women injured while serving in the U.S. military, in the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement services, and in other national agencies. QL+ funds the QL+ Laboratory at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) in San Luis Obispo. At the laboratory, students and faculty work together to develop solutions that will improve the lives of America’s wounded patriots.