Ways to Work, Inc. is busy these days preparing to launch RiteTrack for managing clients and loans. The Milwaukee-based organization operates a network of loan offices across the country, providing small, short-term, low-interest loans to working poor families with challenging credit histories.  Ways to Work’s objective, literally, is to help their clients find a way to get to work. Ways to Work, a sister-organization of the Alliance for Children and Families, partner with local, non-profit agencies across the country to provide loans that are frequently used by families to purchase a reliable used car. The proven Ways to Work program model includes a low interest loan, financial and budgeting education, and case management support for borrowers. During the past 25 years, Ways to Work has made affordable loans to more than 28,000 families and is currently hosted by over 30 non-profit agencies across the county. 
 
After a competitive selection process, Ways to Work selected RiteTrack from Handel Information Technologies for its superior software platform and for its ability to be completely configured to meet the workflow and collaboration needs of Ways to Work. The Ways to Work RiteTrack system was developed in record time between September and November this fall and will be the first system to go live on the brand new RiteTrack 4 platform, which was released during the 2009 RiteTrack Conference in Las Vegas in October. Built on Microsoft’s Silverlight Technology, RiteTrack 4 gives Ways to Work the most sophisticated IT platform available in the human services field today. Says Cheryl Sarasin, Ways to Work’s project manager for the RiteTrack implementation, “With RiteTrack we have found a first-class solution that works the way we do, and not the other way around. We are extremely pleased with the speed at which this system has come from procurement to completion.” When Ways to Work goes live with RiteTrack in January over 100 case workers in 30 states will be logging on to RiteTrack to make it easier to provide loans to their clients. We are thrilled to be working with Ways to Work and are looking forward to making a positive impact both for their employees and the clients that they serve.

Here are a few screenshots from the Ways to Work RiteTrack system: