Moraph for Good · How Commons is made · moraph.org/commons/how-we-make-it
In short
- Written by Moraph people who work in finance, healthcare and government.
- Facts come from official and primary sources, listed on the page that uses them.
- Each page shows when it was last reviewed, and pages with sources show the day they were opened and checked.
- If an official source says something different, the official source is right.
- Found a mistake? Tell us at hello@moraph.org.
- Nothing in it promotes Moraph, a Moraph client or any product.
Who writes it
Commons is where Moraph for Good publishes what it teaches.
The guides for everyone, on money, healthcare and local government, are written by Moraph people who work in finance, healthcare and government. The guides, tools and templates for organizations come from Moraph specialists: the security field guide, for example, is from the people who run security operations for banks, hospitals and agencies.
Moraph for Good is a program of Moraph LLC. It is not a charity and does not accept donations. Sales teams do not decide who receives support, and session materials are never reviewed by them (our approach).
The session kits are taught by Moraph people and vetted volunteers, and anyone may teach them. Organizations that know a country’s rules can offer to check a module or guide against them, and language organizations can help check translations, through the partners page.
Where the facts come from
Commons explains how things work. When it states a fact, it shows where the fact comes from.
A fact here means something like a law, a right, a deadline, an official service or what a program offers. Pages that state facts like these list their official or primary sources at the end, with a link to each, and the guides for everyone end with official places to start.
- In the session kits, every country fact comes from an official page for that country, and facts that belong to one country stay in that country’s block and handout.
- Free help by country lists only government services, regulators, ombudsmen and statutory bodies. None of them is connected to Moraph.
- The guides for organizations use primary sources: governments, regulators, standards bodies and, for what a product or program offers, the vendor’s own pages, as in technology programs.
- The glossary gives the official source for every word.
Where a detail could not be verified, the page says so: privacy duties, country by country notes where a law is changing or where we could not open the official text.
What the dates mean
Rules and services change. The dates tell you how current a page is.
Guides, session kits, help pages and the glossary show Last reviewed with a month near the top, and again next to their sources. That is the month of the page’s last review.
Pages with sources also give the exact day those sources were opened and checked, in words like “Each was opened and checked on” followed by the date. Printed handouts carry the same date at the foot of the page.
Next to that date, the page says what to do if things have moved on: if an official source says something different, it is right. For a decision that matters, check with the official source as well.
Mistakes and corrections
If something is wrong, we want to know.
If a Commons page is wrong, out of date or no longer matches its official source, email hello@moraph.org. Tell us the page and what is wrong, and, if you can, the official page that says otherwise. The same address is at the end of each Sources section.
Larger changes to Commons are dated in the changes log, including corrections. On 20 October 2026, for example, every country fact in the session kits and every entry in free help by country was re-opened against its official source, and claims that went further than the source were corrected. The log has a feed you can follow.
If a page is hard to use, or you need it in another format, the accessibility statement explains how to tell us.
Nothing to sell
Moraph sells software and services. Commons is kept apart from that.
- Nothing we teach or give promotes Moraph, a Moraph client or any product (our approach).
- Session handouts say they don’t recommend any bank, credit union or app, and each kit’s Take care list tells instructors, for example, never to recommend one clinic, provider or service over another.
- Strictly nonpartisan: we take no side on parties, candidates, ballot questions or campaigns, in Voice or anywhere else.
- Commons needs no application and no sign-up. The email updates are optional and bring only new guides and occasional Moraph for Good news.
How support is kept away from sales, and why we take no gifts beyond ordinary courtesies, is in the conflict-of-interest policy.
What Commons is not
Knowing the limits is part of using it well.
Commons is general information about how money, healthcare and government work. It is not financial, medical or legal advice about your own situation, and it does not replace official services.
For help with your own situation, free help by country lists official, free services for money, healthcare and local government, and what’s available in your country shows what Commons covers where you live. At a session, instructors point people to those services rather than advising them (what to expect at a session).
Languages
Commons is written in English first.
Some guides and tools for organizations are also in Spanish and French. They are translations of the English pages, and they say that if the two differ, the English is right.
The session kits, handouts and worksheets are in English. Sessions are taught in the language the host asks for (teaching guide).
Accessibility and printing
Commons is meant to be printed, copied and handed on.
- Guides, kits and help pages have a print button. Handouts and worksheets can also be printed in large print.
- Everything is free to read, print, copy and adapt, and anyone may teach the session kits.
- When JavaScript is off, most tools still give you a printable version or written instructions.
- The site aims to meet WCAG 2.2 at level AA. The accessibility statement explains how it is tested and what is known not to work yet.
Privacy in the tools
Only what each tool’s own page says.
These tools work on your device: the incident plan builder, security self-assessment, backup planner, data map, vendor questionnaire builder, phishing drill kit, plain-language checker, series planner, local help sheet and the session feedback counter. Each says so on its page. What you type is not sent to Moraph. Most keep your work in that browser only, so you can come back to it, and several have a Clear everything button for shared computers.
The email security check is different: to read public DNS records it sends the domain name you enter to Cloudflare’s public DNS resolver. Nothing is sent to Moraph and nothing is stored.
Like the rest of moraph.org, Commons pages use analytics to see which pages and tools are used. Privacy on this site explains what is measured and the choices you have.