DART Funding Approved

U-M Executive Officers approved funding (pending contract negotiations) to replace the current Donor, Alumni and Constituent (DAC) Database with a new Donor and Alumni Relationship Tool (DART).
This marks a major milestone in the project. Approval granted by the following:

• Teresa A. Sullivan, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs


• Timothy P. Slottow, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer


• Jerry A. May, Vice President for Development


• Robert P. Kelch, Vice President for Medical Affairs and Chief Executive Officer of the Health System

Successful Fit-Gap Evaluation Concluded
The Fit-Gap evaluation gave the project team much valuable information about how to proceed.
Read the DART Business Case Executive Summary for more details on the project team's evaluation and recommendations.

Project Team moving on to Next Steps
Next steps are to finalize negotiations with the vendor and create teams to move the project along. The project team will ask for participation from the development and financial communities once a project plan for implementing DART is in place.