Case Study: Youth Policy Institute achieves scalable, data-driven collective impact and longitudinal outcomes tracking with Bonterra Apricot

Youth Policy Institute - Customer Case Study

Youth Policy Institute (YPI) is a 30‑year leader in education and community empowerment in Los Angeles that had to scale a wraparound, cradle‑to‑career model across multiple high‑need neighborhoods and dozens of partner organizations. Their challenge was building a unified, longitudinal data system and a data culture that could coordinate services, meet rigorous grant reporting requirements, and produce reliable outcomes across a complex collective‑impact network.

After evaluating 20 vendors, YPI selected Social Solutions’ ETO to create a four‑part participant profile and a robust data infrastructure with alerts, surveys, and longitudinal reporting. Paired with partner trainings and phased deployment, the system now supports about 40 partners, improves data quality and accountability, enables enterprise and partner‑level reporting, and has strengthened YPI’s grant applications and fundraising—contributing to major federal and private funding and expansion of their place‑based efforts.

Youth Policy Institute

Martha Rivas

Director of Research and Evaluation