I started Bravo Group a little more than 25 years ago, and time sure goes fast when you’re so busy. Winning tough fights using a campaign-style approach was the simple idea that started it all. And along the way – after working with more than 400 clients and remarkable talent joining the firm – our wins proved just how good we are at what we do.
Tough fights usually involve pushing past the entrenched status quo or creating something new so that people can truly make progress in their lives.
- Let the dogs out: We partnered with the ASPCA and Humane Society to put a stop to Pennsylvania’s puppy mills.
- Sowing seeds: We helped form several charter schools – including two cyber charter schools – bring passage of a new education, community-based education model for Philadelphia school children, formed a campaign that established a $70 million fund that brought broadband to public schools and led the creation of a now $500 million education tax credit program that provides private school K-12 scholarships to middle- and lower-income families, along with providing public school students with innovative educational programs. All worthy initiatives that will change the future for students we’ll never meet.
- Breathe deep: We helped the American Cancer Society engineer the success of the Clean Indoor Air Act.
- Grassroots sports: We fought alongside Comcast Spectacore to legalize 50-50 raffles for professional and college sporting events to support charities across the state.
- Show us the goods: We were behind rewriting PA’s open records law.
- Freedom rings: We helped spread democracy across Eastern Europe and Latin America in partnership with USAID.
- Spying the future: We built our first proprietary advocacy technology in 1999, created our unique audience approach to digital communications and developed a superior method for online polling and qualitative insights.
Our people are one side of these successes. In fact, they’ve grown with us to the point where many have moved to power positions elsewhere and have returned to us as clients.
The other side of our success is the campaign-style approach we bring to every client. It’s fun, exhilarating and stressful to envelop an issue, ensure every move is a means to a win and push it over the finish line.
It doesn’t matter how tough the fight is. It’s always solvable.
Despite our track record across the United States and abroad, I’m still occasionally asked, “Can you do work in … Philadelphia?’
Indeed.
I invite you to join me over the next few months as we glimpse at the progress we’ve made in people’s lives and some of the most fun we’ve had over two-plus decades.
