Prior to last year, gift processing at UC Davis was conducted in a decentralized environment; all private gifts were processed by about 50 people working in myriad schools and units across both campuses. This mode of processing made it difficult ensure donor intent, and made UC Davis vulnerable to less-than-stellar audit results. To correct this, UC Davis built a customized gift processing system, which was implemented across more than 30 schools and units. While the system appears singular and seamless to front-end users of the web application used to enter and track gifts (gifts.ucdavis.edu), the entire centralized gift processing system is comprised of five interlocking processes enabled by software that we built in-house.
From the Judges' Report
The scope of this project was amazing, and it was clear that the process was good, the group did due diligence, and the outcomes were excellent. We liked the training, the efficiency, and the results of this project.
