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.

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!!!!”

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.

The contest, a video soapbox empowering students to offer their solutions to the climate change crisis, was the Web’s most extensive environment-related interactive video contest. The students were asked to appear in videos providing an answer to the question: How would you solve the climate change crisis?

Some 400 one-minute videos were collected on 20 campuses across the country, alongside the Campus Consciousness “green tour” of the rock band Guster. Progressive Source marketed the contest through Facebook, and hired local students to assist our professional videographer, who collected the videos while traveling on the green tour’s biodiesel bus.

Progressive Source designed and scripted the Shift ShoutOut! contest and website, and also converted and uploaded hundreds of videos onto YouTube, collected from nearly 500 students. Thousands of people voted for the videos and thousands more viewed them on YouTube. At the contest’s end, two $5,000 prizes were awarded.

California’s landmark Proposition 37, would label genetically modified food and forbid the
use of the term “natural” on foods containing them. In collaboration with grassroots organizations like California Right to Know, the Institute For Responsible Technology, California Granges, and the Organic Consumers Association, Progressive Source recorded videos at the State Grange conference, the Heirloom Festival, and more than half a dozen farmer‘s markets. Hundreds of participants were encouraged to use their social networks to share videos, especially with friends and relatives who are apolitical, or do not share their beliefs.

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.

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.

On behalf of SCI, Progressive Source is advancing a campaign it conceived and created to allow Americans to offset some of their carbon emissions by donating Solar CooKits systems to some of the world’s poorest families. Using the tagline, “The Most Meaningful Carbon Offset is also the Simplest,” Progressive Source is working to brand and promote SCI as a leader in a new category of meaningful, humanitarian carbon offsets. In December, 2009, Treehugger.com covered the Progressive Source-designed offset program for SCI and noted that donating a Solar CooKit system to Africa “Just might be the best $50 you’ve ever spent this season.”

Progressive Source created and scripted the website, www.solarcookerscarbonoffset.com, as well as the web video on that site (at the top of this page). Progressive Source continues to work on behalf of SCI to market solar cookers as carbon offset to consumers and environmentally conscientious corporations.

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.



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.