Unique Loan Program Technically Helps Nonprofits

Charitable groups on limited budgets have a hard time affording today’s new audio-visiual equipment that can help them make professional presentations. Two corporate supporters of United Way of Benton County, IBM and Wal-Mart Claims Administration, have helped the United Way launch a new A-V Loan Program for local nonprofit agencies. The two companies contributed $5,000 worth of equipment.

The equipment includes an IBM Thinkpad laptop computer and a high-lumen Hitachi LCD projector and 60-inch tripod screen. Agency borrowers will be required to sign a loan agreement detailing all the checkout policies and liabilities involved.

United Way President Jill Darling said the loan program “puts a badly needed resource into the hands of our agency partners without the cost involved.”