Statement of Purpose

We have created this guide in order to help administrators and employees of nonprofit, public service organizations easily locate relevant information on the Internet. We have worked in conjunction with Metro Detroit Comnet, a consortium of nonprofit social service organizations in metropolitan Detroit, in order to help identify the topics that would be useful to their member organizations. We hope that the Internet community at large finds the information in this guide useful as well.

In creating this guide, we have included only resources that are publicly available on the Internet. Any resources that require extra fees for access were omitted.

This guide makes no attempt at linking to all nonprofit-related resources on the Internet. Instead, we prefer to point you to the sites which we think you'll find most useful. Please see our submissions guidelines for more information on how we decide what to include.

This guide assumes a basic familiarity with the Internet, its terminology, and how to find a useful resource given an Internet address. If you, in reading this guide, come across any terms that you do not understand, please refer to any of the numerous online or print guides to the Internet. For beginners, we recommend Ed Krol's The Whole Internet: A User's Guide and Catalog, available in most bookstores.

We hope to update this guide on a regular basis. Please see the What's New page to see new additions of resources to this guide.

We welcome any comments or suggestions on this guide, and we especially encourage readers to send us information on additional resources we may have missed. Please let us know what you think by e-mailing us at public-services@umich.edu.

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