Two Groups Resolve Differences with Pallotta TeamWorks Over California AIDSRide
The Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and Pallotta TeamWorks last week issued a joint statement that said they had resolved "all of their outstanding differences" related to the California AIDSRide, the Los Angeles Times reports (DiMassa, Los Angeles Times, 6/9). "The center and the foundation wish to acknowledge Pallotta TeamWorks' pioneering efforts in helping to raise millions of dollars in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Critical prevention, care and treatment services for people living with HIV/AIDS have been made possible as a result of revenues generated over the years by the California AIDSRide," the statement said (L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center/SFAF release, 6/7). Pallotta, a for-profit company that has organized the California AIDSRide to benefit HIV/AIDS service groups since 1994, last year filed suit to prevent SFAF and the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center from hosting a separate AIDS fundraiser, AIDS/LifeCycle. The two groups had received proceeds from the California AIDSRide in the past but decided to organize their own bicycle fundraiser after "unexpected cost overruns" reduced their profits from the 2001 AIDSRide. A Los Angeles judge denied Pallotta's request to halt AIDS/LifeCycle, but the three groups remained involved in efforts to resolve other issues, including whether the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center and SFAF broke a contractual agreement with Pallotta that they would not organize a rival bicycle event (California Healthline, 1/15). Both the California AIDSRide and AIDS/LifeCycle were held this year, and both events are scheduled to take place next June (Los Angeles Times, 6/9).
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