AEGiS-WashBlade: Tour de Friends race scheduled for next week

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Tour de Friends race scheduled for next week

Washington Blade - June 13, 2003
Alastair Gamble

Traveling a 330-mile route over four days from Raleigh, N.C., to Washington, D.C., more than 960 riders will participate in the first annual Tour de Friends next weekend to raise money for AIDS services organizations. The event, whose main sponsor is the D.C. AIDS group Food & Friends, has replaced the D.C. AIDS rides, which had benefited similar organizations since 1996. Event planners told the Blade late last year that they saw Tour de Friends as a fresh start after financial controversy plagued the 2002 DC AIDS Ride. The controversy stemmed in part from the high overhead costs and production fees of the previous event producer, Pallotta TeamWorks, which caused a net return of less than 14 cents for every dollar donated. In a previous interview with the Blade, Craig Shniderman, executive director of Food & Friends, said a 50 cents-on-the-dollar return would be considered a success by event organizers this year. Tour de Friends is up front about the controversy from which it was born; on its Web site, the group identifies itself as "a nonprofit organization dedicated to the effective management of fund-raising events benefiting people living with HIV/AIDS." The Whitman-Walker Clinic, the co-beneficiary of the D.C. AIDS rides, is not participating in Tour de Friends.

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