# Bravo Group

> Bravo Group is a privately held Harrisburg strategic communications firm that combines public affairs, lobbying, research, creative, media and digital campaigning. Founded by former political operative Chris Bravacos in 1999, it sells campaign-style problem solving to corporations, causes and governments, with particular depth in health care, life sciences, education, energy and infrastructure. Its most revealing product is Morning Scrapple, a public-facing Pennsylvania opinion poll powered by the firm's home-built Beagly digital research platform.

- **Founded:** 1999
- **Headquarters:** Harrisburg, United States
- **Founders:** Chris Bravacos (Founder, President and CEO)
- **Products:** Integrated strategic communications, Government relations and lobbying, Beagly, Morning Scrapple
- **Notable:** Reported 592 clients and 350 employees and interns cumulatively from 1999 through 2024., Helped create a campaign supporting a $70 million fund for broadband in public schools., Helped establish an education tax-credit program that had grown to $500 million by 2024.

## Products & services

- **Integrated strategic communications** — Research, analytics, creative, branding, media relations, digital marketing, media buying, fundraising and community outreach organized around a defined client outcome.
- **Government relations and lobbying** — Pennsylvania and federal policy strategy, lobbying, appropriations and grant support, coalition building, issue management and policymaker engagement.
- **Beagly** — A proprietary digital opinion platform built in-house to structure surveys, recruit respondents and validate public-opinion data.
- **Morning Scrapple** — A recurring digital-first Pennsylvania public-opinion poll, newsletter and interactive dashboard, produced with PennLive beginning in 2026.

## Achievements

- Reported 592 clients and 350 employees and interns cumulatively from 1999 through 2024.
- Helped create a campaign supporting a $70 million fund for broadband in public schools.
- Helped establish an education tax-credit program that had grown to $500 million by 2024.
- Worked with the American Cancer Society on passage of Pennsylvania's Clean Indoor Air Act.
- The 143K Rising campaign helped prevent proposed charter-school funding cuts and generated more than 1,000 parent comments on proposed regulations.
- Built Beagly, its proprietary digital opinion platform, from scratch in 2015.
- Morning Scrapple's inaugural 2025 edition was cited by The Philadelphia Inquirer.
- Ranked No. 7 on a 2022 Pennsylvania lobbying-firm list cited by Bravo.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Morning Scrapple surveyed 711 registered Pennsylvania voters and publicly reported its 2.1% response rate, weighting and quality-control disposition counts.
- **2026-01** — Bravo Group and PennLive launched a co-branded Morning Scrapple polling partnership.
- **2025-03** — Bravo launched Morning Scrapple as a public, digital-first Pennsylvania polling product.
- **2024-03** — State Street Advisors principals Dick Hayden and Jeff Sharp joined Bravo Group's government-relations practice.
- **2024** — Bravo marked 25 years and reported 592 clients and 350 employees and interns cumulatively since 1999.

## Links

- Website: https://bravogroup.us
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bravo-group-inc
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/bravogroup
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bravo_group/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BravoGroup/

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Last updated: 2026-09-24