The TASC Group is an independent, full-service communications and PR firm representing mission-driven and nonprofit clients. TASC was built on a foundation of progressive values and a passion for public service. The company exists to make a meaningful difference for nonprofit organizations, social advocacy causes and campaigns, and mission-driven businesses that are committed to building stronger communities and making the world a better place. TASC’s services include media relations, crisis communications and issues management, CSR campaigns, thought leadership, cause-related marketing, red carpet galas, SEO and digital marketing, online reputation management and social media.
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The TASC Group is an independent, full-service communications and PR firm representing mission-driven and nonprofit clients. TASC was built on a foundation of progressive values and a passion for public service. The company exists to make a meaningful difference for nonprofit organizations, social advocacy causes and campaigns, and mission-driven businesses that are committed to building stronger communities and making the world a better place. TASC’s services include media relations, crisis communications and issues management, CSR campaigns, thought leadership, cause-related marketing, red carpet galas, SEO and digital marketing, online reputation management and social media.
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Larry Kopp has nearly 35 years of experience in the advocacy and nonprofit sectors, the political and public policy worlds and the entertainment industry as a trained storyteller and communications expert.
Larry founded The TASC Group nearly two decades ago in order to work with the most dynamic and inspiring leaders and organizations in the nonprofit, political advocacy and business worlds. He has worked on some of the most significant and high-profile public relations campaigns in the country. He has helped manage multi-million dollar political campaigns at the state and local level and worked on several presidential campaigns. He has built political grassroots organizations in more than a dozen states.
Larry also had a lengthy career as a professional actor before joining the political and nonprofit worlds, appearing in Hollywood blockbuster films and TV shows, including the Farrelly Brothers hit Dumb and Dumber, major appearances on Law and Order, ABC’s TV series Supercarrier, the film Alien Nation starring Mandy Patinkin and James Caan, among others.
Larry performed in over 40 plays in New York and Chicago, premiering the works of Pulitzer Prize winning playwright David Mamet and Shel Silverstein. Larry appeared in Mamet’s film Homicide that premiered at and opened the New York Film Festival. He is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company along with Mamet, W.H. Macy and Felicity Huffman.
He has appeared as a crisis communications expert on major news shows and has been quoted extensively in dozens of major national media outlets, including CNN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, People Magazine, Reuters and The Associated Press. His writings have appeared in PR Week Magazine.
An award-winning public relations professional, Rida Bint Fozi has more than 15 years of experience as a communications specialist, strategist and publicist for businesses, nonprofit organizations and socially responsible companies and thought leaders.
Rida’s work has been recognized for excellence by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and PRSA NY. She was named one of PRSA NY’s inaugural “15 Under 35” Award winners, which honors the NY public relations community’s foremost emerging talent. She has led multiple campaigns that won PRSA NY Big Apple Awards and PRSA Silver Anvil Awards of Excellence and has been named a Ragan’s Top Woman in Communications and PRNews Top Woman in PR. She previously served on the PRSA NY Young Professionals Advisory Board and has regularly served as a judge for its annual Big Apple Awards competition.
Rida has spearheaded grassroots, national and international campaigns and managed crisis communications for clients such as the Trayvon Martin family and Foundation, United Way of New York City, the Heather Heyer Foundation, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, the David Lynch Foundation, Dictionary.com and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting.
Prior to joining TASC, Rida served in leadership and development positions at national youth organization Young Muslims and managed communications and social media for the Islamic Circle of North America, one of the nation’s leading American Muslim organizations.