July 13, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute
Donors who plan to sponsor a rider in the Alaska AIDS Vaccine Ride can now make their contributions online.
Next month more than 1,200 volunteers will ride their bicycles 510 miles between Fairbanks and Anchorage to raise money for research toward an AIDS vaccine. Each rider is responsible for raising $3,900, and with a new donation system developed by LaSalle Bank, in Chicago, not only can donors make their gifts online but they can also designate them to be credited to a specific rider.
In addition to making giving more convient for donors, offering the option of making donations online also reduces operating expenses, according to Norm Bowling, senior vice president for business and legal affairs at Pallotta TeamWorks, the Los Angeles company that produces the event. Instead of sending in paper pledge forms that would have to be typed into the event database, online donors enter the information directly into the system themselves, making gifts less expensive to process.
To get there: Go to http://www.alaskaride.org.
