Case Study: City Year achieves smarter student support and nationwide impact with Microsoft Corporation

This nonprofit’s digital transformation empowers employees to pursue a nationwide mission

City Year, a nonprofit serving students in high-need communities across the U.S., needed to replace manual, time-consuming reporting and outdated technology so its AmeriCorps members and staff could better track student progress and demonstrate impact. Microsoft Corporation helped address this challenge with Power BI and Azure, giving City Year a more complete, data-driven view of student attendance, grades, behavior, and interventions.

With Microsoft Corporation’s cloud-based analytics tools, City Year centralized data, automated reporting, and enabled staff to use dashboards for self-service insights at the student, school, and national levels. The result was faster analysis, with impact managers saving a day or more each week, plus better-targeted student support and stronger collaboration with schools to help more students stay on track to graduate.

City Year

Welles Hatch

Chief Information Officer