The Stanford campus is a diverse place teaming with a variety of different student run non-profit organizations. These organizations have an assortment of different aims and address issues such as the lack of elementary school music programs in many greater Palo Alto area schools, and the excessive food waste produced daily by the Stanford dining halls. Each and every one of the over 100 student run nonprofits on the Stanford campus has a unique purpose and strives to make this campus, the surrounding community, this country and the world at large a more humane place. 

                While Stanford’s Haas Public Service Center matches students with organizations, finds outlets for their public service projects and generally spreads the word about the service comings and goings of the Stanford campus, most students still don’t know about many of the Stanford student-run nonprofit organizations. If Students are interested in learning more about, or getting involved with, these organizations they either have to go to the Haas center or shift through the myriad websites, pamphlets and e-mails  produced by each individual organization. To make their search easier, and to expose the student organizations to potential volunteers and contributors, I am going to produce a database of all of the student-run nonprofits on campus. My website will include organized pages about each and every one of these nonprofits. Each page will include a blurb about their mission, statements about how they strive to complete their mission, e-mails of those in charge and links to any pre-existing websites these organizations may have.  My goal for this website is to provide a central place for people to learn about the many student-run nonprofits on campus, and to increase the visibility of these organizations to the general campus population.  

                By the time I graduate the need for a website like this will be even more eminent, as more and more organizations get on the web, and other student-run nonprofits crop up.  Some of the nonprofits on this campus will have died off in that time, and others will have been created. However, as a whole Public service participation has grown tremendously across college campuses over the past couple of decades, and most believe this trend will only continue and intensify in years to come. Furthermore, many politicians, including President Obama and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, have called for mandatory public service for students at Public Colleges. If their initiatives pass, private colleges like Stanford will probably adopt similar requirements. If this occurs the need for an informational website about the community service organizations around campus will be even greater as students try to find worthwhile organizations at which to complete their required hours of service.   

                Additionally, in ten years time, there will be many more online services available to inform students about the nonprofits around campus. It is possible that all of the student-run nonprofits on campus will not only have web pages, but will also be able to use their web pages to evoke compassion and incite giving through the use of some of the advertising techniques commonly used by major online businesses today. This will help the organizations to grow and become more effective. The more content these organizations have online for Stanford students and others to see at the click of a mouse, the more important the online portions of their projects will become. As online nonprofit content grows, and more people begin to use the internet to contribute to and participate in service work, my planned website will become more and more useful.  However, the website will need to change and morph every month or so to account for new Stanford student-run nonprofit organizations, and to record the changes and additions to existing programs. I hope for this database to serve as a useful tool for service-minded students in the present and in the years to come.