What “Community Listed” means on an organization’s page
4Planet·
Sep 8, 2026
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Every active mission on 4Planet carries at least one UN Sustainable Development Goal. Nexus Impacts publishes no goals, so for imported missions the tags are 4Planet’s reading of the figures, made by written rules.
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In mid-September 2026, all 31 active missions on 4Planet carried at least one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and on average they carried between four and five. Those tags decide which goal pages a mission appears on. This post explains where they come from.
An organization that runs its own page tags its missions itself. The mission form shows the 17 goal icons and asks which goals the mission advances, and the goals chosen shape the suggestions for what the mission should measure.
None of the active missions came that way. All 31 were imported from Nexus Impacts on August 29 and 30, 2026, together with the 13 organizations that run them. Nexus Impacts is where those organizations report their figures and evidence, and it publishes no goal, theme or sector for any of them.
So every goal tag on an active mission today is 4Planet’s reading of an organization’s data. The organization did not make that claim, and the code that assigns the tags is written to say so.
The import reads each figure an organization reports, with its label, its unit and its definition, and checks them against a short list of written rules. A few of them:
a figure about meals, food or nutrition points to Goal 2, Zero Hunger
clinics, medical or dental care point to Goal 3, Good Health and Well-being
schools, students, teachers or graduates point to Goal 4, Quality Education
vocational training, apprenticeships or internships point to Goals 4 and 8
water, boreholes, sanitation or hygiene point to Goal 6, Clean Water and Sanitation
trees, forests, habitat or wildlife point to Goal 15, Life on Land
A language model would tag more missions and explain none of them. A rule can be read. When an organization asks why its mission carries Goal 4, the answer is a line of code, and a wrong line can be fixed for every mission at once.
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A mission whose figures match no rule gets no goal. An empty tag is incomplete. A wrong one would be a false statement about someone’s work, published under 4Planet’s name.
A goal tag says a mission’s work touches that goal. It does not measure progress against any UN target, and a mission with more tags has not done more.
Love a Village’s four missions in Malawi each carry twelve goals, because the figures behind them cover farming, boreholes, reforestation and girls’ schooling at once. Friends Peace House’s trade school carries four. Both are accurate readings, and neither says which organization has done more.
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Written by the team that builds 4Planet. Profiles of listed organizations draw on their own published material and link to it.
