Dewey Square Group

Dewey Square Group is a public affairs firm that has spent more than 30 years helping businesses, nonprofits, campaigns and causes win public support. Its work includes ballot initiative campaigns, message development that makes complex issues understandable, community-based engagement and grassroots organizing, communications that mix proven and new tactics to move opinion and counter disinformation, government relations, and coalition building with influencers, allied groups and organizations across communities.

The firm was born in Boston, maintains a presence near the White House in Washington, and works with affiliates in all 50 states. Notable campaigns include building a coalition for Microsoft that sought federal funding for K-12 computer science education, and helping the American Beverage Association repeal Cook County’s sugar-sweetened beverage tax in 72 days. Its principals stay directly involved in client work, and the staff train alongside senior strategists.

What to Know

• DSG managed African American communications and influencer outreach for the opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
• That campaign generated coverage on CBS’s 60 Minutes and in more than 200 African American newspapers.
• More than 300,000 people watched the museum’s dedication ceremony live on Facebook.