Clean Water Action

So, I get a canvasser to knock on my door. For his effort, I make a one time donation of $60. I use a credit card so he doesn't pocket it.

8 months later, I see on my recent statement another charge for the same amount. When I go back, I see they've been charging me whole time, about $500 total in unauthorized activity.

Taking someone's charity and abusing it is worse than a common thief. I'm glad to have Amex Fraud Dept. on my side.

[Webmaster: Why do I need to type 100 words here for my entry to be submitted? So here I am reviewing your silly constraint to fill your quota. You're welcome.]

So, about a year ago, I get stopped on the street by some young college aged kids. They want to know if I support clean water.

Of course I do! So I sign up to give them 20 dollars...as it turns out, $20 turns into $200, because they won't stop debiting my account monthly. I talked to them 5 months ago when I realized what was happening and I was in between jobs. No action taken.

I called again today. If they don't stop and refund my damned money, I'm going to have to submit a fraud claim.

This sucks. Never going to donate again to these "Good Causes".

Twice in the last six months while I was home alone I got a knock on my door at 8:30pm! I had no lights on outside.

I couldn't believe that someone would solicit funds at that time of night and both times I called the police and was told that they had permission to knock on doors until 9pm. I could accept this time in the summer when it is light out until that time but when it is dark and no outside lights are on why would anyone think it is permissible to do this?

I think it is also dangerous for the young people who are doing this. I knolw it frightened me and who knows what someone with a gun might do in the same circumstance.

My son worked for CWA for one summer and that was enough for him. The pressure they put on their employees to raise funds is absurd! It's like a door to door sales job under the guise of organizing for the environment. They work in the hottest weather, high humidity, tornado warnings and the only measure of success is $$. They really pressure them to get people to open their doors.

From what he said, there's a lot of partying. Where he worked, they always drank and smoked pot after work. There was also a small group of employees who he described as junkies.

It's a shame because it could be a really good thing for college kids.

I signed up for CWA, thinking they were working to protect our drinking water. Actually, all this "group" does is to badger people into giving money, regardless of what stance the resident has on the issues. When I went out with the group, our group leader wanted us to pay attention ONLY to him.

They also scared the daylights out of another new member who had her first night with them as well. I was told that as the night went on, I had to "get aggressive and do what it takes to stay in the door", which made me more than just a little uncomfortable. They came across as more of a "frat party on wheels" than a group of concerned people working for our drinking waters, more concerned with "making quota, then going out to party" once their "workday" was done.

The individuals who work for this "organization" are pushy "robots" with a clipboard, no compassion for parents with children to put to bed or folks eating dinner, or folks who do not want to be solicited. They seem to lack any empathy, common courtesy, recognition of boundaries, or any sense of how to talk to a person on an issue, It's more akin to a hard-line "sales pitch", and they give the resident they are talking to practically NO chance to say no. It's "yes or else", and they seem to be prime examples of many of the young people in today's workforce that employers are loathe to even interview, let alone hire for anything important to a legitimate corporation.

Other reviews I have read say "well the organization needs money to run", as well as a whole plethora of other excuses as to why they think CWA is "a good place to work". The way this "organization" is going, they are doing themselves more harm than good with their heavy-handed, aggressive and confrontational tactics. If other reviews are going to defend this group's pushy, arrogant attitude, then perhaps its' "defenders" exemplify this narcissistic, invasive psychological type.

Finally, the ones in charge of the group tend to talk down to, rather than WITH, the people they are ostensibly "training". They are not reluctant at all to make veiled threats about "not continuing to be employed of you don't do what we say to the letter".

In Short: YOU'RE BETTER OFF WORKING AT MCDONALDS. Stay away from CWA, and try to develop a career with a legitimate corporation. These kids aren't it.

I regularly go into my control panel on my computer and found the program: CleanWaterAction Reminder by We-Care.com v5.0.5.1 I tried to uninstall this program and cannot. I found and removed a cookie for this program and still could not uninstall this program.

I have no idea what it is...I've NEVER been to their website and I certainly wouldn't give them a dime! I wrote them and gave them *** for putting something like this on my computer.

Be aware...they are certainly up to NO GOOD! (ninety two, ninety three, ninety four, ninety five, ninety)

A member collecting funds for Clean Water Action comes to my door and hands me a clipboard on clean water. Yes, I support clean water, who doesn't?

I asked him if there was any political connections or if it is supporting clean water. He said they are non-partisan and non-political. Well, surprise, surprise, they are very political. I looked them up online as soon as they left.

This Clean Water Action org needs to be honest and quit hiding behind 6 clean water bullets on a sheet of paper for donations.

It's dishonest and I've developed a great distaste for anything that has to do with them. If you support clean water, support a different organization.

i work with CWA and we do good work, we have to motivate neighborhoods because thats how its done. It definitely feels like were being pushy, cause we are.

If there isnt a solid, moving force behind us pushing towards progress then who is to say progress will ever happen? let alone happen now. The job is not for everyone, I am just training and maybe wont make staff but Im glad to say i have contributed time to CWA. Honestly it doesnt feel like a job, they want you to help them raise money and will tell you techniques that improve you ability to talk to strangers, teach you how to motivate neighborhoods and MOVE people to do the right thing, but truth is its not for most people, its for people who believe in the issues plus the money is great.

even if you dont believe in the issues you can get behind the pay scale, although i doubt you will get hired without caring about how the physical environment is treated, it is a job. remember that, and as far as jobs go doing something positive and moving towards a cleaner environment also means realizing that we all live on the same planet; And that humans should be treated equally. besides clean water action, I am NOT an environmental activist, but i DO believe in the issues we fight for and the cause we back. it is important to know we back humanity at its best, and we do this by organizing communities.

we would not exist if people all simply cared about how they felt, its about the knowledge that we are all humans on the same earth striving to meet the same goals that each human is treated the same and will be able to have a good life. we are not just an organization, we organize humanity at its best.

Clean Water Action canvasses neighborhoods across the country, collecting donations for initiatives to sanitize water and prevent pollution in the nation's water supply and natural bodies of water. While it is a legitimate organization that actually contributes a solid portion of its funds towards said initiatives (unlike many charity scams), and is backed by politicians, their methods of soliciting contributions is shady at best. I highly recommend against working for Clean Water Action.

CWA recruits just about anyone, including students, to their fundraising campaign because the job is fairly simple, albeit obnoxious. An employee memorizes a pitch and some facts and goes door to door in the afternoon in what could be your neighborhood. I remember working with CWA and a lot of people were quite aggravated that we had disturbed the family during dinner or bothered them by coming to their house asking for money, or at least a signature. I thought working for an environmental group would be rewarding, but it often turned out to be a drag.

The worst part is, that in order to become a full time staff member, an employee must make a quota of funds raised each day over a long period of time. There are positions with coordinating the canvassing, and relating issues to the canvassers, but the office is not large. The kicker: If you don't make quota for two consecutive days, you are fired. This also feeds back to how CWA hires new people all the time, including students. Not hard to get hired, not hard to get fired.

If anyone who has been visited by CWA canvassers would like to share their thoughts, or anyone who worked for CWA, I would like to read it. I'm curious to see how many people aside from myself and my former coworkers have had the same experience.