Avaaz Reviews 

Avaaz makes sure that everyone is free to believe or support their campaigns at their own will.
A harmless email is send to you. While for instance Greepeace keep on spamming by phone and even post once you donated. That means that they used my sponsored money for getting my money and not for the course I donated the money to.
With Avaaz I never felt spammed.
If you feel attacked by them it’s your own believe that keeps you from signing a petition.

Political survey about wilders is not acceptable

Some of Avaaz campaigns/petitions distribute Hamas terrorist organization propaganda. I've tried to report them, but they ignore my complains. See more details in avaaz_management_federal_bureau_of_investigationof_request_to_avaaz_to_stop_distribute_hamaz_propaganda
petition on Avaaz site

So far my experience has been completely stellar. I have not had any attacks on my bank account nor have I received any spam notifications since using their service to create petitions. I find it disturbing how many disgruntled comments are on their ratings profile. So I've investigated for my own peace of mind and sanity.

Thus far I see no fraudulent practices carried out by Avaaz. I have noticed a large amount of effort to better the world that we all live in. Such as, during the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Avaaz set up Internet proxy servers to allow protesters to upload videos onto public websites.[15]

Avaaz supported the establishment of a no-fly zone over Libya, which led to the military intervention in the country in 2011. It was criticized for its pro-intervention stance in the media and blogs.[16] These are huge chess moves with amazing results. I surmise that while making these moves they have collected a lot of haters. People who do not want them to succeed at their mission which is to create a better world.
Those angry minions are trying their best to ruin Avaaz's reputation in every way possible. They have been forthcoming with their financial reports and that information can be easily found on their website. Or any search engine is a great tool to use to research a companies background information. (startpage, qwant, searchencrypt).
I cannot tell those who seem to be unhappy with Avaaz's success rate to invest their anger on real problems or to learn new skills that will lift their levels of happiness so as not to attack others who have no ill will towards them or anyone else.
All I can say is breath, it is going to be ok. When one door closes multiple doors open. Choose one or more and be happy.
Its very easy to do a little research and find out if someone is not who they claim to be. Their only agenda is for the betterment of all entities on Planet Earth. Don't get in the way of the good guys.

In 2017 I did a small monthly donation so they had my creditcard. By 2022 I saw that it ended up in 5 different monthly donations of campaings I have never heard of. I was donating almost 30 euro each month not being aware of it. I have signed some petitions trough the years but not given permission to donation. When I contacted them they refunded me directly for the last year, but not longer than that. I think it's criminal what they are doing so never give them your creditcard and check your account carefully!

Check out the people, the same damned people are “SumOfUs…
They are constantly asking you to donate so they can buy shares in this and that, Coca Cola is their big one right now. They want to buy up land in the rainforest, blah blah blah.. it never ends. Used to be they’d ask you to sign a petition and then on the next page that loads, to make a donation. Now they just bombard you with attempts to get donations.
They sent out an email looking for money because the UK had turned around a decision about pesticides that were banned. Upon googling the article it shows that they are barely stating anything true, that the article says it’s only in ONE country and nowhere even close to saying what they are BSing about. Their assets are growing by the millions each year and as I’ve written back to them, with absolutely no response, that they are doing land grabs, building shares in companies, that will ultimately go in there pockets when they disband and move to something else. They’re lawyers, or in law societies, they were part of the U.N. In some capacity… these people are well versed in the law and know exactly what they can get away with and how to execute their plans to benefit from YOUR hard earned money. Reading here over and over about people being charged over and over for one off donations make me sick and even angrier that they are getting away with one of the most disgusting successful attempts at fooling the public, leaving people feeling good that they could contribute to their “causes”.
Makes me sick and I wish they could be shown for what they REALLY are.
Do the research, the more you find, the more you’ll see what’s really going on here. Taking their word for what their causes are is just licensing them to continue on!

They have charged me on 3 separate occasions.
At no point have I ever heard of them nor have I ever agreed to any kind of donation!

Powerful, meaningful, serious. This is what we want a campaigning organisation to be and this is what Avaaz is.

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.

I have been a member since 2010. I use a unique email address that is only available to Avaaz and I have never received spam (i.e. people here claiming to get spam from Avaaz are obviously getting the spam from somewhere else) and so they definitely do not sell email addresses.

They always work on projects which I find to be worthwhile. Yes they might be a cause of potential "slacktivism" (click and forget) but on the other hand, the petitions they start end up getting millions of signatures and in several cases that I am aware of, they actually do have some type of effect in raising global awareness for issues plaguing humanity and stopping or at least hindering situations from getting worse.

My only concern with Avaaz is that they are not a non-profit and so we can't see where and how the the donations are distributed.

I ordered an awesome Christmas lawn ornament for my sister November 2, which arrived December 6, containing a Halloween Lawn Ornament instead. Unfortunately, she had thrown out the receipt along with the packing materials. The company refuses to send the correct item without the receipt and has accused me of lying claiming Halloween stock ran out at the end of October. Oh well, at least she received something for my efforts and will enjoy her Christmas present next October. Merry Christmas and Happy Halloween!

Used to sign petitions in "secure" avaaz, but my email box is now full of SPAM every day, starting from sexual email to all kinds of phishing and scams. I never gave permition for my email adress to be distributed. "Secure" Avaaz sells email adresses, and unsolicited emails from Meetic even come with a tittle: «through avaaz», which confirms where all the SPAM came from.

They are scammers