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The American Benefits Council is a prominent public policy organization based in Washington, DC, dedicated to advocating for employers committed to enhancing the health and financial well-being of their workers, retirees, and families. As the largest organization focused exclusively on employee benefits matters, it represents over 220 of the world's largest companies, ensuring their voices are heard in shaping national, state, and global benefits policy. Through its various initiatives, the Council addresses critical issues such as retirement and health plan sponsorship, compliance with regulations, and the coordination of paid family leave programs. By engaging with lawmakers and stakeholders, the organization strives to protect multistate employers from disruptive state and local benefit laws while promoting best-in-class solutions for employee benefits. Generated from the website

HistoryIn 1997, World Bank executives Mari Kuraishi and Dennis Whittle were asked to develop innovative ways to combat poverty. They created the World Bank's Development Marketplace, a first-of-its-kind event where people from around the world competed for World Bank funds. The event's success unveiled the enormous potential of a global marketplace for philanthropy, and participants asked for a real marketplace that was open year round and operated virtually. Mari and Dennis saw the brilliance of this idea, left the World Bank and launched GlobalGiving.SpecialtiesThe world is full of problems. GlobalGiving is full of solutions. Solutions run by innovative, grassroots projects and organizations that are working to educate children, feed the hungry, build houses, train women (and men) with job skills, and hundreds of other amazing things. GlobalGiving is a charity fundraising web site that gives social entrepreneurs and non-profits from anywhere in the world a chance to raise the money that they need to improve their communities. Since 2002, GlobalGiving has raised more than $150 million from more than 400,000 donors who have supported 10,000+ projects in 160 countries.