Breaking the cycle: two top California AIDS groups fire Pallota TeamWorks. (Aids Ride).After it raised more than $40 million for AIDS causes in the past eight years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Los Angeles--based for-profit group Pallotta TeamWorks' oldest event, the California AIDSRide, has had its legs cut out from under it. Citing escalating costs and ideological differences, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center provides a broad array of services for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Its clinic and on-site pharmacy offers free and low-cost health, mental health, HIV/AIDS medical care and HIV/STD testing and prevention. and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation Committed to ending the pandemic and human suffering caused by HIV, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation develops innovative solutions, combining scientific evidence with community experience to fight HIV/AIDS and promote health. have terminated their relationship with the annual six-day bicycling event. "Pallotta TeamWorks exceeded the expense budget dramatically, and it appears the cost of fund-raising will come in at 50 cents on the dollar," said Pat Christen chris·ten tr.v. chris·tened, chris·ten·ing, chris·tens 1. a. To baptize into a Christian church. b. To give a name to at baptism. 2. a. , executive director of the AIDS foundation. In past years, Christen said, Pallotta's take for the AIDS ride was 35 to 37 cents for every dollar. This number is important, because the more an event organizer can cut its expenses, the more money charities get. The Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance recommends fund-raising costs not exceed 35 cents for every dollar of related contributions. This is not the first time questions have been raised about Pallotta TeamWorks' expenses. In Texas in 1998, it returned only 15 cents for every dollar of fund-raiser money to state charities, and the company had to cancel fides in Florida and Pennsylvania in the 1990s after event returns were deemed subpar sub·par adj. 1. Not measuring up to traditional standards of performance, value, or production. 2. Below par in a hole, round, or game of golf. . Norm Bowling, senior vice president of business and public affairs Those public information, command information, and community relations activities directed toward both the external and internal publics with interest in the Department of Defense. Also called PA. See also command information; community relations; public information. for Pallotta, said the unexpected expenses in California were the result of additional "safety infrastructure and participant support" as well as "significantly lower numbers of riders ... than we had hoped for." That's a claim that baffles both organizations. "We raised more money [in 2001] than we ever have before, and we had less of a net return, [so] less money went to services," said Gwenn Baldwin, executive director of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center. She added that by the eighth year of a fund-raising event, costs are typically lower, not higher, than in earlier years. The Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. center and the San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden foundation are organizing their own AIDS bike ride for 2002, called the AiDS/LifeCycle. Meanwhile, Pallotta officials said they plan to continue with the California AIDSRide next year, though its new beneficiaries have not been named. The high cost of raising money Rising costs of the California AIDSRide, organized by Dan Pallotta, led Baldwin and Christen to create their own event. [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] |
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