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The Debra Griffth Staff Files series contains records created between 19892002. When Griffith began her position as Regional Director of the Major and Planned Gifts Office in the late 1990's, she requested that each academic unit send her their latest fundraising and recruiting information. These files offer a glimpse of the recruitment efforts and of the fundraising goals and initiatives of the different departments of the university between 1989-2002. The varied promotional materials display the unique look and feel of the many departments within the university. It is interesting to note the different strategies that each department employs to attract potential students, especially such news schools at the time as the School of Information. Within this collection there is also fundraising information pertaining to smaller university organizations such as the Center for the Education of Women, Department of Otolaryngology, Institute of Human Adjustment. There is also information relating to the fundraising efforts of Nichols Arboretum and the University of Michigan's Art Museum. The files are arranged alphabetically according to unit title.

The Development Education Program series contains records created between 1985-2004. It has a wide range of materials relating to the training of university fundraising volunteers and donor relations. The majority of the material within this series falls into three sub-series: Committee Materials, Manuals, and Topical. Within the Committee Materials is documentation relating to the Development Office's Advisory Committee, Matching Gift Advisory Committee and Staff Development Advisory Committee. The larger sub-series contains fundraising manuals that focus on introducing fundraising staff and volunteers to the activities and responsibilities of the development office. They cover such subjects as matching gifts, planned giving, and the development offices' database system named RAMIS. These manuals provide a step by step guide to how the development office trained their staff and what expectations and responsibilities they placed upon them. The topical sub-series contains documents that discuss the history of philanthropy at the university and the university's broad fundraising goals between 1986-2004. There are proposals for university-wide Fundraising initiatives, information on the university's endowment, annual giving, and major gifts. Where the Debra Griffith staff files series focus on the fundraising goals of the separate university departments, the materials in the topical series render a representation of the university's broad fundraising, goals.

The Audio-Visual Materials series includes audio cassette tapes, and BETA, U-Matic, and VHS videotapes. The cassette tapes contain recordings of several speeches given by former President Ford at the university. The BETA, U-Matic, and VHS videotapes are comprised of two main types, recruitment videos and documentation of the Michigan Fundraising Campaign that officially started in 1992. The recruitment videos offer picturesque views of central campus from the mid-1980's to the early 1990's. The Michigan Fundraising Campaign videos document the many presidential advisory meetings that were held by President Duderstat in 1990 when he, and the advisory board members, addressed such concerns as how the university will adjust to the modem technical environment and how they should adjust the mission and fundraising goals of the university. These concerns were focused before the official 1992 kick off of the large fundraising campaign titled "Campaign for Michigan". The videotapes are noteworthy because they clearly show that this campaign marked a new direction for the university, and that the school as a whole was redefining itself There are discussions that focus on adjusting the managing of the school to resemble the management of a business, and how this change will effect the mission, goals, and responsibilities of the university.