Our mission is to empower clients to use the web-based tools and messaging they need to communicate directly to the public.

Progressive Source believes that social networking and highly targeted web advertising can help progressive campaigns level the competitive playing field for ideas. In bypassing prohibitively expensive traditional media advertising and outreach, grassroots organizations, with the help of their supporters, can communicate directly with millions of people, without ever buying a single television ad.

BeYourGovernment.org intends to assist the Occupy movement in re-creating government for the people in 2012 and transforming society.  Its OccupyGovernment.org campaign helps citizens be the change they want to see by providing tools to assist candidates who reject corporate money.

BeYourGovernment.org launched its free platform both for candidates and for citizen activists on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 16, 2012.  It began with a dozen candidates participating.

During the second half of 2010, Progressive Source was engaged by the Bella Abzug Leadership Institute to transform its Web 1.0 website into a dynamic, video-driven destination that expresses the organization’s purpose and aspirations.

Progressive Source produced and videotaped students and graduates affiliated with BALI in New York City. Working with BALI’s founder and CEO Liz Abzug (Bella Abzug’s daughter), Progressive Source then scripted and edited the tapes into six videos. Using a WordPress foundation, we then developed and built a website that presents nine pop-up-in-large-screen videos on the new BALI homepage.

Using our technology and design team, Progressive Source “migrated” BALI’s existing content into a WordPress system. We then trained BALI’s webmaster in updating their content using WordPress.

Members of BALI’s board were delighted. Half a dozen board members e-mailed their compliments, including one feminist professor who wrote, “I’ve just taken a look at the site and it’s FABULOUS! It brings Bella’s words and passion to life — in her own words, in the work of BALI and the lives of the young women. Wow!!!!”

Progressive Source marketed the video with local newspaper ads and a Facebook campaign targeted to NYU students. Soon after the video was launched, New York Metro, New York’s largest free daily newspaper (circulation 300,000) featured the controversy as its main front page story, entitled “Caught on YouTube.”

Strongly-worded editorials opposing the plan appeared in both the NYU student newspaper and the award-winning community paper The Villager. More than 300 NYU students joined a Progressive Source-created Facebook group supporting the Open Washington Square Park Coalition. Within months, the Community Board overseeing the park rescinded its earlier approval of the plan by a vote of 40 to 5.

The footnoted Web video can be found on the microsite that Progressive Source created to house and serve it, at www.whereismyhealthcard.com.

A Web-based marketing effort focused on non-members of the PNHP organization is expected to launch the campaign during the next few months.

In creating the videos, Progressive Source worked closely with the Director of the ACLU’s Planned Giving Department, who selected the subjects for the videos and joined us in interviewing them. Progressive Source managed the scripting, camera, audio and music work, as well as the video editing and creation of graphics for the video.

Donor Mike Zasidil’s video can be viewed in a larger screen format by clicking here.

Our second video profiles Manny Margolis, a distinguished attorney, former ACLU Board member, and lifelong member of the ACLU. It can be viewed in a larger screen format by clicking here.

May Benzenberg Mayer (“MBM”) was an esoteric teacher and philosopher who drew from various mystic traditions and her mentor, Carl Jung.  In the 1930s, she opened a school in NewYork and published a series of monographs and newsletters that were influential in her time.

Over the years, very little of MBM’s work survived, and not a word of it was available on the Internet.  A Progressive Source client whose life was influenced by her work commissioned Progressive Source to locate the sole surviving copies of her books at the NYPL and to scan and digitize the rare newsletters which he maintained, for many decades, in his private collections. Progressive Source recreated her work on a WordPress website we created at http://mbmteachings.wordpress.com.

Now, for the first time, MBM’s work is accessible, for free, to anyone who searches for it, anywhere in the world, at any time.

The Progressive Sebastopol website functioned as a city council candidates’ video forum in which each candidate was videotaped responding to the same six questions pertaining to local issues.  Four of the city’s six candidates participated in the video forum, resulting in 24 interviews that made voter comparisons of their positions easy and efficient.

The website also features an online voters’ guide on local and statewide candidates and issues. The voters’ guide was downloadable as a two-page Word document. The guide was downloaded and distributed to more than 400 voters in the small community. In the close election, two of the three progressive candidates won their seats, edging out a controversial candidate who was the largest owner of commercial real estate in the city.



Soon after our efforts were spread on the Web, a local hearing – attended by informed citizens – led to a preliminary vote of 3 to 2 by the City Council to make Sebastopol the first city in Sonoma County to ban gas powered leaf blowers. The next day, this was reported in a lead article in The Press Democrat of Santa Rosa.

Progressive Source Communications plans to use its video-driven web templates to assist grassroots groups in cheaply and efficiently advocating for their issues.

While Vice President helping manage the New York office of Fenton Communications, Progressive Source’s CEO Jonathan Greenberg managed the marketing campaign for the Save Darfur Rallies in Washington D.C. and in New York’s Central Park. On behalf of the American Jewish World Service, a founding Save Darfur Coalition member, Greenberg created and placed a major paid newspaper, radio and Web campaign to turn out tens of thousands of people. Greenberg also created a small “day of” the rally flyer and supervised a team of 15 workers who crossed the park publicizing the event. The New York rally drew more than 30,000 people and made the front page of The New York Times.

The week after the Central Park rally, both President Bush and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan addressed the General Assembly, expressed their opposition to the genocide and demanded that U.N. peacekeepers be brought an to end it.