Awards
2020 Awards
In 2020, TASC was honored to win four Big Apple Awards from the Public Relations Society of America New York Chapter in the categories of “Crisis Communications”, “Public Service” and “Reputation and Brand Management” for our campaigns ‘Repairing a Reputation in the National Spotlight and ‘The NYC Curb-to-Market Challenge Promoting the Circular Economy in New York City.’ with Chris Graff.
In 2020, TASC won PR News’ Nonprofit Award for “Green Campaign” with ‘The NYC Curb-to-Market Challenge’ (CTMC) with Chris Graff to place CTMC in front of established experts, thought leaders and business people in the circular economy space. CTMC successfully launched at the keynote panel of Circular City Week, a week-long festival in the Big Apple for circular economy-related events.
TASC also received two honorable mentions from PRSA-NY in the categories of “Event” and “Community Affairs”.
Manufacturing entrepreneur Chris Graff approached TASC with the goal of creating a competition to identify the best business plan to take recyclable material from New York City and use it to both manufacture and sell a product locally, with the winning company being offered a $500,000 prize.
2019 Awards
In 2019, TASC was honored to win two Big Apple Awards from the Public Relations Society of America New York Chapter in the categories of “Crisis Communications” and a Spotlight Award in “Diversity and Inclusion” for our work with Female Investors led by Maria Contreras-Sweet for The Women-Led Bid for The Weinstein Company.
In 2019, TASC won PR News’ Nonprofit Award for Best Crisis Management campaign for its crisis and advocacy communications work with the organization Yeshivat Maharat. The PR News’ CSR & Nonprofit Awards Luncheon annually recognizes and celebrates “the communicators that work hard to make the world a better place.”
Yeshivat Maharat hired The TASC Group to help protect the role of female Rabbis (Rabbas) within the Orthodox Jewish community and prevent the expulsion of Rabbas currently serving in shuls and synagogues around the country.
2018 Awards
In 2018, TASC was honored to win three Big Apple Awards from the Public Relations Society of America New York Chapter in the categories of “Events & Observances” ,“Crisis Communication” and a Spotlight Award in “Diversity and Inclusion” for our work with the Heather Heyer Foundation and Yeshivat Maharat in our campaign for Orthodox & Ordained: Making the Case for Women Rabbis in the Orthodox Jewish Community
In 2018, TASC won three PR News’ Nonprofit Award for “Event PR”, “PR on a Shoestring Budget” and “Public Affairs/Issues Management” for our work with the Heather Heyer Foundation (HHF) in our campaign for The Launch of the Heather Heyer Foundation in the Aftermath of Charlottesville.
TASC was brought on to launch the Foundation in a period of less than two weeks, manage media and speaking engagements for Heather Heyer’s mother, Susan Bro and use the media attention to build a movement to support HHF’s mission.
TASC also received two honorable mentions from PRSA-NY in the categories of “Public Service” for our work with HHF.
2017 Awards
In 2017, TASC was nominated for Big Apple Awards from the Public Relations Society of America New York Chapter in the categories of “Crisis Communications” and “Diversity and Inclusion” on behalf of our work with client partners RushCard and LifeSci Advisors. Big Apple Awards are presented to firms that best exemplify industry excellence in the public relations field.
TASC partnered with LifeSci Advisors to launch a pioneering gender diversity campaign in the life sciences industry to strengthen the company’s reputation and brand. The campaign was covered extensively in the media and praised by industry leaders and advocacy experts in the field who work to advance gender parity in the sciences.
TASC also managed and mitigated a crisis incident for RushCard, a prepaid debit card company founded by hip hop mogul and former client Russell Simmons. RushCard suffered after a technology transfer left its customers without access to their funds for several days. The story was covered nationwide. The crisis and reputation management campaign brought their customers back and restored credibility to the company, which was later purchased by prepaid card industry leader Green Dot for $170 million.
In addition, TASC was awarded with one of three “Best Of” awards for “Best Business/Campaign Outcomes” for our work on behalf of LifeSci Advisors.
2016 Awards
In 2016, TASC was nominated for a Big Apple Award from the Public Relations Society of America New York Chapter. Big Apple Awards are presented to those firms that best exemplify industry excellence in the public relations field. We were nominated in the category of “Best Public Service Campaign” for our work with the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, one of the world’s most prestigious acting and theater training studios.
The Stella Adler Studio developed a theater arts training program for women and men who are inmates at the Rikers Island correctional facility in New York City. The program is designed to help reduce recidivism among inmates and improve morale within the Rikers Island jail system. The program resulted in the City of New York funding and hiring a new full-time arts training position at Rikers Island to help expand the initiative.
This marks the 3rd year in row that TASC has either won or been nominated for a “Big Apple Award.”
2015 Awards
In 2015, TASC was honored to win two Big Apple Awards from the Public Relations Society of America New York Chapter. The first Big Apple Award was awarded to TASC for “Best National Public Service Campaign” for our work with 3 Generations that included promoting their documentary film Tricked and their grassroots advocacy campaign on human trafficking.
The second Big Apple Award was for “Best Global Communications Campaign” for our work with Athlete Ally and All Out. This was our 3rd Big Apple Award in two years.
In 2015, TASC won a PRNews’ Nonprofit Award for “Best Public Service Campaign” at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, for our work with two LGBT rights groups, Athlete Ally and All Out. The campaign was centered around the Winter Olympic games in Sochi, Russia. The goal of the campaign was to convince the International Olympic Committee to change their policies on how they choose host countries in the future, ensuring that the human rights of athletes, spectators and citizens from the host country are always respected.
TASC also received two honorable mentions from PR News in the categories of “Best PR Event” and “Best Social Responsibility Campaign.”
2014 Awards
In 2014, TASC was privileged to win two Silver Anvil Awards of Excellence from the Public Relations Society of America, one for a national public relations campaign and one for our crisis communications work. Both awards were for our work representing the Trayvon Martin family, their foundation and their legal team headed up by Benjamin Crump. Silver Anvil Awards are one of the industry’s most prestigious honors.
In 2014 our firm also won a Big Apple Award from the Public Relations Society of America New York Chapter for our crisis communications work representing the Trayvon Martin family.