Open by default. Editorial by design.
We treat recommendation as a public record, not a black box. Every changemaker reaches the map through a documented path. Here is what we publish, and what we refuse to hide.
What we publish
Every profile carries the name of the correspondent who vouches for it. Nothing is anonymous on our side. Entry dates, recommendation notes and sources are rolling out card by card through the correspondent desk; here is exactly where each stands.
- Correspondent attribution: Each changemaker is signed by the person who proposed them. Correspondents carry the responsibility of their own selections.
- Entry date: Rolling out: new entries are dated at publication. The founding corpus predates this system and carries no date rather than a reconstructed one.
- Editorial note: Why this changemaker, in the correspondent's own words, on every card recommended through the desk. Founding-corpus cards are being progressively re-signed with their note.
- Sources: Shown on the profile when the correspondent provides them. Going forward, any impact figure on a card must carry its source and year, or the figure comes off.
- Categories & themes: Tagged by correspondent, reviewed by the editorial team, never auto-generated.
How a changemaker enters the cartography
The process is intentionally deliberate. Correspondents nominate with a written rationale; the editorial team verifies; we reach out whenever we can; and the person keeps an unconditional right of review and removal, before and after publication. No scraping, no harvested LinkedIn data. The founding corpus (2026) was seeded from the founding correspondent's own decade of field research and is being re-verified card by card.
- 1. Nomination by a correspondent, with a written rationale.
- 2. Verification of identity, role, project authenticity by the editorial team.
- 3. Outreach: we contact the changemaker whenever we can reach them, and explain our editorial mandate.
- 4. Right of review: corrections before or after publication, and unconditional removal at any time (see “Are you on the map?” in the legal notice).
- 5. Publication: signed by its correspondent.
What we publish about ourselves
Once a year we publish the Transparency Report: who joined, who left, who reviewed what, and how CHNGMKR is funded. The first report covers May 2026 – May 2027 and will be made public in June 2027 at the latest.
- Editorial decisions: Number of nominations received, accepted, declined, with anonymised reasons.
- Removals & retractions: Profiles removed (death, withdrawal, factual error, ethical issue) with public justification.
- Funding: CHNGMKR is a not-for-profit, free for everyone. The report states how it is funded, what it costs to run, and confirms that no profile, placement or editorial decision was paid for.
- Independence statement: Affiliations and conflicts of interest of correspondents and editorial staff.
- Impact pipeline: Messages relayed to changemakers, conversations that followed, and documented outcomes six months on. Card counts measure our activity; these measure what it changes.
What we will never publish
- Email addresses, phone numbers or home locations of changemakers: admin-only.
- Personal data of account holders, ever, to anyone, in any aggregate form.
- Editorial decisions paid for by sponsors, foundations or governments. No paid entries. None.
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