AvaazReviews of avaaz.org

I think Avaaz potentially does good work, but they seem to intentionally make it near impossible to contact them. They make it very easy to setup donations, but then now way to stop them. Their website, offers no contact information at all. Their help page say to click on the pink button below to contact us. There is no pink button. this it too big an organization to have such a poorly designed website if it is unintentional.

This so called non profit organisation has throughout a 180 day campaign refused to publish any credible accounts for what they do with the money they collect. Wr have requested them to provide accounts including vouchers and auditors statement for public scrutiny. They simply plainly ignore this reasonable request They are entitled to not publishing anything. But. They claim that they have 70 million members so it is peculiar that this is not mainstream and established already. We need to see 1 to 1 congruence between collecting 10,000 USD or what they collect, and the spending on their alleged campaigns. We have written to them that we are willing to post ads for them for free to our ten thousands of followers provided that they publish their accounts. But nothing. So now time to report them and assert pressure such that we can get clear if they are a scam or just not awake to the occasion. Please cgallenge this by facts. Anyone who have ever seen avaaz.org's accounts on their homepage? Anyone of you 70 million who have any evidence for spendings on alleged campaigns? We users want to spend our money on real campaigns not fake scams. That must be obvious.

Cancelling my subscription today after they sent an email about the US supreme court decision to overturn women’s constitutional right to abortion… but they referred to women as people. I can’t take a campaigning company seriously if it can not see that to fight for womens rights you need to use the word woman.

I naively sent money (recent direct email about a specific issue) before checking the organisations accounts which you can find on the organisational webpages. Income, grants and renumeration packages don't add up for me. I won’t be donating again. There are a lot of other organisations that either campaign and/or raise money for specific causes (I will continue to donate to) that ensure more money donated goes to causes highlighted. This isn’t one of them “buyer (or donator) beware” – just because an organisation says it is doing “good” doesn’t mean it isn’t also ensuring the directors (or other key stakeholders and power wielders) are well renumerated (look at the amount of money being paid to a few key individuals…. ). Maybe they read Nir Eyal's book about marketing - they seem very good at it.

I was tricked into signing a petition on this site, it is a Scam and should be ignored and blocked!!! NEVER EVER send them money!!! I saw that the numbers signing didn't go up, ever though they claimed 1.8M had signed their petition!!! DON'T give them your email, or any other personal details!!!

I just sign the more important petitions , I rarely get spam and its only for important petitions that I'm happy to sign . They are like many charities that have one off donations and standing order donations that repeat every month , it's a bit too easy to press for repeat donations by mistake and it's quite hard to correct the mistake . Loss a star for that . Currently they have 1.4 Million signatures on a petition to Trial Putin for war crimes , I think that's pretty good .

I have changed my email address since signing up to subscribe to the AVAZZ platform and I have not been able to contact them to cancel my subscription as you have to enter the original email and password that you signed up with and I have no way of receiving or sending messages to that old account. I have contacted my bank and they have now stopped the payments going out but have warned me that they may try to take them again!

Avaaz uses emotive images, picking up on the latest global crisis, to campaign and raise money. However, although 'Avaaz has donated tens of millions of dollars to other organisations, because we saw them as better placed than us to have impact on a particular issue', supporters have to take on trust that it was well spent. The Avaaz website does not acknowledge or honour those organisations by name, or indicate why they are trustworthy and effective. The assurance that 'every last cent' will go to those suffering is surely absurd, thus borderline dishonest. You can plough through Avaaz's dry, legally required accounts, but there is fairly minimal detail about grants. It would not be costly to produce an easily visible user-friendly presentation of annual accounts, with a list of all grantee organisations by name, to increase transparency. Without full transparency the reputation of humanitarian work generally is damaged. Avaaz is excellent at self-promotion, and at denigrating other organisations for being cumbersome and inefficient. But I tried twice to contact them re grant accountability and received no reply. Only when I put a negative review on Trustpilot did I get a response. I'd like to think they're as great as the line-up of big names complimenting them makes out, but for me the lack of a cool, easily readable summary of accounts, with acknowledgement of grant partners by name, and positive celebration of partnership working, not just 'our community', leaves a bad taste.