Case Study: Young Life achieves collaborative planning, real-time insights and agile forecasting with Vena Solutions

Collaborative Planning With Vena Drives Engagement, Efficiency and Informed Decision Making at Young Life

Young Life is a global Christian nonprofit that runs about 35 camps serving more than 100,000 kids each year. Before Vena, camp budgets were built in siloed Excel files, creating version-control headaches, manual consolidations, currency conversion issues and little involvement from department heads—making accurate forecasting and strategic decision‑making difficult.

By implementing Vena’s Excel-native planning platform with custom workflows and automated ETL from Infor Smart Office, Young Life centralized budgeting, automated currency conversions and provided a single source of truth. The result: higher stakeholder engagement, faster, more accurate forecasts, better-informed leadership decisions and the agility to mitigate losses during the 2020 pandemic.

Young Life

Brandon Combs

Director of Camping Budgets and Finance