AvaazReviews of avaaz.org

From what I can tell this looks like a good organization raising awareness on pressing issues. I signed up for ‘easy pay’ for convenience when donating but recently switched so that I can review my donations first before paying. Keep up the good work Avaaz.

Wenn man sich anschaut, WER hier die 1* Bewertungen vergibt, nämlich hauptsächlich Leute denen z.B. die Petition gegen die AfD "zu weit" ging oder generell der Kampf gegen Rechts "undemokratisch" finden, kann man doch wieder ruhigen Gewissens die Petitionen unterschreiben. Danke für die Entscheidungshilfe!

Je viens de Rejoindre Avaaz et je n'y ai vu que des Pétitions pour la Sauvegarde de la Planète, des Forêts, des Océans, contre le Massacre des Animaux Terrestres ou Marins et la protection des Populations, des Pétitions contre les Multinationales qui détruisent tout au nom du Profit et ces Pétitions me conviennent - c'est le Rôle d'1 Plateforme de mobiliser les Gens sur 1 Thème- j'ai vu bcp d'Avis négatifs ?? Si on est pas d'accord avec 1 Pétition, on ne la signe pas !! M. F.

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 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.

A formidable organisation. Anything or anyone that can mobilise and draw together such large numbers of diverse people from around the world for the greater good is to be commended. It's founding principles are sound. More of it needed to oppose the dying order of the mass right wing media . !

Had put a nagging review 2 weeks ago, and this is the update as promised. After all not that bad. I had made 3 donations this year, when I found out an automatic donation from my credit card which was going on since end of 2014. The auto donations had summed up to more than 100$, so decided immediately to send an email to "donations at avaaz", and two more afterwards, no reply from 11-Nov to 11-Dec. Finally got my money back and transactions stopped. My tip: just be patient, it takes time...