Privacy Policy

1.0 Policy

At Climate Mobilization Project (“CMP”), we dedicate ourselves to restoring a safe climate and the protection of the personal information of our supporters, members, donors, and website visitors (“you”).

2.0 Information We Collect and Why

2.1 Non-Personal Information

Like most websites, we collect information that cannot specifically identify you. This non-identifiable information includes your internet service provider, IP address, the browser and type of machine you are using, the website that referred you to us, pages you request and the date and time you request them.

We use Google Analytics to gather this non-personal information. Generally, we use this information only in the aggregate to understand how visitors navigate through our website and improve user experience. For more information on Google Analytics, please review this link: google.com/policies/privacy/partners.

CMP also places “cookies,” or small files, in the browser files of your computer. We use cookies to save the information you give us so that you don’t have to re-enter it each time you visit our website. This process allows us to personalize the website to your taste and provide the best web experience possible to our visitors.

2.2 Personal Information

The only time we collect personal information, or information that can identify you, is when you voluntarily provide that information, such as when you sign up for updates or register to participate in projects or campaigns. This information includes your name, email address, phone number, address, zip code, and credit card information. We will use the information you provided for the purpose you provided it, and we will add you to our mailing list.

As part of our mailing list, you will receive updates on other CMP campaigns or activities. You will also receive information about campaigns or activities of local affiliates, including The Climate Mobilization (“TCM,” our affiliated 501(c)(4)), or other trusted CMP allies in some instances —such as if our allies are organizing events that further CMP’s mission in your local area. To improve your engagement with our network, we track whether users open the emails we send and click the links within those emails. You can opt-out of these communications at any time using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of each email we send.

3.0 How We Store Information

Information collected under this policy may be stored by CMP or in databases owned and maintained by our affiliates, agents, or service providers. We currently store our emailing list on the Gmail platform. CMP also uses  EveryAction as our contact management system. For more information on EveryAction, please review this link: ngpvan.com/content/privacy-policy.

4.0 Processing of Credit Card Information

If you choose to donate to CMP, your credit card information will be processed through our secure online payment system, using a third-party payment processor. If you decide to make that donation recurring, our third-party payment processor will store your information. Our payment processors use industry-accepted data collection and encryption methodologies to ensure the your sensitive payment information is secure. Payment information entered on our website is not stored or seen by CMP.

5.0 Sharing Information

5.1 Basic Contact Information

We retain the right to share your name and email address with trusted organizations that share our mission. These organizations include TCM and partner organizations working in your area. We will not share your information with any individual or organization not dedicated to the success of CMP.

5.2 Location Information

We will not share the information you’ve given us on action or event signup pages with unaffiliated groups or individuals without your explicit permission.We treat your name, city, state, and comments as public
information for the Pledge to Mobilize, petitions, letters to the editor, and other similar items you have signed or completed. We will not make your street address publicly available, however we will transmit it to campaign targets (e.g., your elected representatives) specifically noted on the action page.

5.3 Information Related to Donations

CMP does not rent, share, sell, or trade any information related to online or offline donations with any second or third party except TCM.

5.4 Agents, Consultants and Related Third Parties

CMP uses volunteers or hires other companies to perform certain functions (e.g., mailing information, maintaining databases, and processing payments). In doing so, we protect your information by only sharing what is necessary for the third party to complete its work.

5.5 Legal Requirements

We will disclose your information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, protect and defend the rights or property of CMP, act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of website visitors or the public, or protect against legal liability.

6.0 External Websites

6.1 Links to Other Websites

Our website contains links to other websites not operated or controlled by CMP, called third-party sites. The policies described here do not apply to third-party sites. Links from our website to third-party sites do not imply that CMP endorses or has reviewed those sites. Please contact those sites directly for information on their privacy policies.

6.2 Social Media

Through our website, you can choose to access certain social media websites and services owned and controlled by third parties (e.g., Facebook and Twitter). When you do so, you risk sharing your information, including personal information, with those social media services. The privacy policies and terms of service of those social media websites, not our privacy policies, will govern how your information is stored and shared. Please contact those social media services directly for information on their privacy policies.

7.0 Miscellaneous Terms

7.1 Updating the Privacy Policy

CMP reserves the right to change this policy anytime and from time to time without prior notice as necessary to support the movement. We will endeavor to include a link wherever we ask for personal information. Please review this policy periodically, especially before you provide any personal information. This policy was last updated on the date indicated above. Your continued use of the website following changes to this policy indicates your agreement with its new terms.

7.2 Exclusions

This policy only applies to information collected by CMP through our website. The policy does not apply to any unsolicited information provided to CMP through the website or any other means. This unsolicited information includes, but is not limited to, information posted to any public areas of the website or affiliated sites. We will treat all such information as public.

Climate Mobilization Project is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. If you would like to contact us please send a message to help@climatemobilization.org

James Streit

Board Member

James has retired after working in banking and finance for over 30 years, most recently as a senior portfolio manager in Bank of America’s corporate treasury department. Prior to that role, James worked as a portfolio manager for a variety of entities, including Salomon Brothers and Credit Suisse, as well as smaller start-up firms. He has a longstanding interest in issues related to the climate crisis and its intersection with the financial industry.  He has supported organizations such as The Climate Mobilization and The Sierra Club in their efforts to bring about an appropriate response based on the best available science. James holds an MA in physics and a BA in physics and mathematics from Columbia University, and is a CFA charterholder.

Shuo Peskoe-Yang

Board Member
Shuo is a non-profit strategy and research specialist whose areas of specialty include diversity, equity, and inclusion; movement and coalition building; organizational planning and development; campaign strategy and tactics; fundraising; and quantitative and qualitative research. He is a current member of Resource Generation and is a former Senior Researcher at Corporate Accountability and Teaching Assistant at George Mason University. Shuo received his BS in neuroscience from the University of Delaware.
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Michél Legendre

Board Member
Michél (he/him) is an immigrant from Trinidad and Tobago of Afro and Indo-Caribbean ancestry. Currently he is a non-profit consultant and board member for Power Shift Network.
 
Michél believes deeply in the transformative importance of abolition, a transition of justice and equity from the harmful extractive economies of today, and the need to ensure support for the marginalized communities that are leading the movements for justice. He has supported movements for local food and housing justice in Boston. Michél also served on the steering committee from 2016 to 2019 for the Boston People’s Climate Mobilization which helped shape the 2017 Boston PCM rally and the community-building that followed.  In 2019, he helped organize a gathering of men’s work groups in Boston unlearning patriarchy and building a feminist community among men. Since 2019 Michél participated in the participatory budgeting processes for New Economy Coalition’s Black Solidarity Economy Fund and as a seed grant reader for the New England Grassroots Environmental Fund. He previously served as Campaign Director for Corporate Accountability and Worth Rises. Michél currently lives in Bushwick (unceded lands of the Lenape people), New York. 
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Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD

President

Margaret is the founder of The Climate Mobilization (TCM) and Climate Mobilization Project (CMP) and helped catalyze a worldwide climate emergency movement through her work with both organizations. Margaret now serves as Board President and Climate Awakening Program Director. She is the author of Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth (New Society Publishers, April 2020) and several influential essays. She is also a member of the Climate Emergency Fund’s Advisory Board. Margaret earned her PhD in clinical psychology from Adelphi University and a BA in social anthropology from Harvard. Though she loved being a therapist, Margaret felt called to apply her psychological and anthropological knowledge to solving the Climate Emergency.

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Matt Renner

Board Member

Matt Renner was born and raised in Berkeley and now lives in Richmond, California and is a father to an awesome three-year-old. 

He serves as Vice President of Seneca Solar, a new tribally owned renewable energy and Earth-healing solutions company. The company is owned and controlled by the Seneca Nation of Indians, who have tasked it with profitably and equitably delivering innovative renewable energy solutions that heal the Earth.

In his spare time, he pulls his son around in a trailer behind his ebike, works in the garden, and tries to bring media attention to the rolling disaster that is the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond. 

Matt has worked as a nonprofit executive in clean energy, climate policy, and journalism for over a decade, focusing on the near-term social and economic impacts of climate change. Matt earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from UC Berkeley.

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