FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Lexington, KY, July 26, 2024—The National Association of Government Defined Contribution Administrators today announced its 2024 Leadership Awards. NAGDCA is the premier professional association for plan administrators and services providers of government-sponsored defined contribution retirement plans.
“Once again, our members have wowed us with their Leadership Awards submissions,” stated NAGDCA Executive Director Matt Petersen. “The winning programs in each of this year’s five categories demonstrate outstanding results in engaging employees in their defined contribution plans. Our goal in sharing these exceptional programs is to inform and inspire public DC plan administrators nationwide to increase their commitment to helping participants with creative programs that illuminate and engage. Always essential, these qualities are especially critical now given DC plans’ ever-growing importance in enabling America’s public sector employees to adequately prepare for a secure retirement.”
The recipients of the 2024 NAGDCA Leadership Awards are:
Holistic Financial Wellness
- City and County of Honolulu – Deferred Compensation Plan Health & Wealth Fair
- City of Milwaukee – 2023 Milwaukee Fire Department Outreach
- State of California – Savings Plus 2023 Virtual Adventure Center
National Retirement Security Month
- City of Los Angeles – Deferred Compensation Plan City Fair
- New York State Deferred Compensation Plan – 2023 National Retirement Security Month Campaign
- State of Missouri Deferred Compensation Plan – Retirement Security. It starts with you.
Participant Education & Communication
- City of Anaheim – 2023 CFP® Retention Campaign
- District of Columbia – 2023 Financial Wellness Challenge
- Ohio Deferred Compensation – 2023 Enhanced Webinar Education Campaign
- State of California – 2023 Savings Plus Participants Save Campaign
- State of Indiana – Hoosier START – 2023 Beneficiary Awareness Campaign
Plan Design & Administration
- Maryland Teachers and State Employees Supplemental Retirement Plans – Catch the Match
- State University of New York – SUNY Campus Dashboard
- Washington State Department of Retirement Systems – Roth Implementation
Technology & Cybersecurity
- City of Portland – Toss the paper! The effects of paperless processing for Plans and participants
- Nevada Public Employees’ Deferred Compensation Program –Creating Cybersecurity Awareness
- NYC Health + Hospitals – Register your Account Campaign
The NAGDCA Leadership Awards were created to recognize and share members’ brightest ideas and most innovative solutions in topical categories. Submissions are reviewed by a volunteer Awards Committee, and judged on originality and measurable results.
Additional information about NAGDCA’s 2024 Leadership Awards winners may be found here.
ABOUT NAGDCA
NAGDCA provides education, information, and training in all aspects of public plan administration to support members in creating plans that enable secure retirement outcomes for their participants. Additionally, NAGDCA is a co-founder with the Employee Benefit Research Institute of the Public Retirement Research Lab, a retirement industry-sponsored collaborative effort. The PRRL mines data from the PRRL Database, the first-ever database specific to public sector plan- and participant-level defined contribution data, to produce research aimed at enhancing understanding of the design and utilization of public sector defined contribution retirement plans. NAGDCA also conceived National Retirement Security Week to encourage retirement saving among government workers. Through its efforts, National Retirement Security Week evolved into National Retirement Security Month, a national effort to inspire American employees to save adequately for a secure retirement that is observed throughout the retirement industry during the month of October. It has received bipartisan Senate resolution since its conception in 2006. To learn more about NAGDCA, visit https://www.nagdca.org/.
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