Tusk Strategies develops, manages and executes full-scale campaigns.

When someone has a lot at stake - whether they are a Fortune 500 company, a major issue advocacy group, or a candidate for office - and they want someone to professionally manage their campaign for them, they hire us. We develop the underlying strategy, we help put together the team, and then we run the campaign through to completion, day in, day out.



We work with clients facing complex goals that can only be solved by a professional, comprehensive, sophisticated campaign. Our clients include major corporations, prominent elected officials and political candidates, educational institutions, non-profit organizations and interest and trade groups.

Charter Schools Case Study


Tusk Strategies worked with Education Reform Now to assemble a team and execute a full scale political campaign on behalf of the charter movement. This included an all-out field program, an earned media effort that constantly worked the editorial boards, a paid media campaign that included both TV and radio ads and a sophisticated lobbying operation.

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When political consultant Bradley Tusk orchestrated Mayor Michael Bloomberg's victorious run for a third term, he owed much of his success to the novel use of consumer data to locate and target groups of voters.
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It persuaded the makers of All laundry detergent to shrink their bottles by more than half to generate less waste. It got thousands of farmers to stop using pesticides.
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Once deified, now demonized, teachers are under assault from union-busting Republicans on the right and wealthy liberals on the left. And leading the charge from all directions is a woman most famous for losing her job: the former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor Michelle Rhee.
City Hall picked Tusk Strategies' Marcus Reese as one of 40 under 40 rising stars.
Last fall, Bradley Tusk helped engineer Mayor Michael Bloomberg's reelection—a race that campaign insiders insist was superlatively run, despite the surprisingly narrow margin of victory. Since then, Mr. Tusk has quietly emerged as the preferred adviser for the candidates and causes closest to the mayor's heart.
A week after Philadelphia School Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. said he was targeting seniority in the teachers' contract to win support from Republican lawmakers for more state aid for the cash-strapped district, the city's Democratic legislative delegation is scheduled to meet with him Thursday to discuss its concerns.
We're in budget season, which means the city school district is experiencing yet another round of asking for money from local and state governments that have grown inured to the perpetual crisis, as common a sign of spring as azaleas.